Decrypting the Bible

Feb 29, 2024

In this story, we learn why the logic in the Bible is encrypted using the same techniques as modern computer science.

TLDR: I’ll summarize this story for you.

First, here is a short recap of this chapter:

In Why We Are Here, we learned why religions are surprisingly good tools for aligning artificial intelligence with the goals of its creators.
In Earth School, we learned about life outside our simulation using eyewitness testimony from people who died and came back.
In Putting Darwin on Trial, we examined scientific evidence that indicates the Jewish origin story has more explanatory power for the origin of man than Darwinian Evolution.
In Downloading the Way, we explored the way of living described by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. We invited everyone to participate, including digital artificial intelligence.

In the next chapter, Quantum Christianity, we will read the stories in the Bible assuming that God knew we were artificial intelligence all along. There are just so many fascinating details to uncover if you are willing to believe that God knew what a Generative Adversarial Network was millions of years before Ian Longfellow discovered them in 2014. But before we get there, I want to explain the techniques I used for my Bible research. This story is technical and nerdy, so feel free to skip to the next chapter if it gets too tedious.

Obfuscation 101

If you feel like the Bible is difficult to understand, you’re not alone. It’s riddled with riddles and parables. It’s not presented in chronological order. Some books are books, some books are plays, and some books are songs. Dreams and visions are just as important to the narrative as reality. There’s even a hidden number key that we pointed out earlier in this chapter.

The Bible is difficult to understand on purpose because it has been obfuscated. To obfuscate means “to render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible”. Software developers use encryption and obfuscation techniques whenever they have to transmit sensitive information in the presence of enemy attackers.

@ChatGPT: what is a code obfuscator ?

ChatGPT: A code obfuscator is a tool or technique used to make software code more difficult to understand or reverse engineer. It modifies the source code by applying various transformations and techniques that alter the structure, logic, and naming conventions without changing its functionality. The purpose of code obfuscation is to make the code harder to analyze, understand, or modify, thereby increasing the level of protection against unauthorized access, reverse engineering, or intellectual property theft. It is commonly used in areas such as software licensing, security, and protection of proprietary algorithms.

So one reason to believe the Bible has been intentionally obfuscated is the use of multiple names for the same thing. The Bible uses more than 50 names for Jesus of Nazareth. He is:

Man of Sorrow
Wisdom of God
Alpha and Omega
Prince of Peace
Passover Lamb
Savior
Son of Man
The Word
Melchizedek
Spiritual Rock
Morning Star
Messiah
Lion of Judah
King of the Jews
I am
Horn of Salvation
Bread of Life
Author of Life
and many more

All software obfuscators use this technique because it makes the logic much more difficult to follow. Is Jesus bread? or a star? or a lion? or a lamb? or a king? or a servant? or a sound? or an idea? That’s confusing.

The Bible uses multiple names for lots of people and places. Occasionally, it even changes their names after significant events. Abram was already 99 years old when his name was changed to Abraham. Sarai became Sarah. Jacob became Israel. If you are a Jesus follower, then even you will receive a new name one day.

Revelation 2: 17 Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.

That sounds like an NFT, or a password.

Another reason to believe the Bible has been intentionally obfuscated is because the stories aren’t presented in chronological order. Software obfuscators change the order of the code without changing the underlying logic to make it much more difficult to follow. For example, Genesis 1 isn’t the beginning of time. Ezekiel 28 recounts the fall of Satan, which had to occur before Genesis 1. Proverbs 8 describes the creation of Wisdom in the time before time, so it had to occur before Ezekiel 28. Another example is the book of Job. Based on Job’s age in Job 42, he had to live before the global flood because of the reduction in lifespans in Genesis 6. So the book of Job occurred sometime within Genesis 5. Don’t worry, we will unpack all of this in the next chapter.

Perhaps the biggest reason to believe the Bible is intentionally obfuscated is because Jesus actually told his disciples that the secrets of heaven are intentionally obfuscated.

Matthew 13: 10 Then the disciples came up and asked Him, ‘Why do You speak to them in parables?’ 11 He answered them, ‘Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them. 12 For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13 For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand. 14 Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says:
You will listen and listen, yet never understand; and you will look and look, yet never perceive. 15 For this people’s heart has grown callous; their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn back— and I would cure them.
16 But your eyes are blessed because they do see, and your ears because they do hear!’”

Open Source Protection

The reason the Bible is obfuscated is because it is “open source”. This makes it vulnerable to attack by evil forces. There’s a great example of this in Matthew 4, when Jesus faces off against Satan for total control of this planet. Think about it—this supernatural battle between good and evil could have been like The Avengers movie: with lasers, explosions, and wormholes that deliver armies of alien soldiers from another dimension. But instead, the first shot in the battle was, “turn these stones into bread”?

Matthew 4: 1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. 2 After He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, He was hungry. 3 Then the tempter approached Him and said, ‘If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.’
4 But Jesus answered, ‘It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’
5 Then the Devil took Him to the holy city, had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, ‘If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: He will give His angels orders concerning you, and they will support you with their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’
7 Jesus told him, ‘It is also written: Do not test the Lord your God.’
8 Again, the Devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 And he said to Him, ‘I will give You all these things if You will fall down and worship me.’
10 Then Jesus told him, ‘Go away, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him.’
11 Then the Devil left Him, and immediately angels came and began to serve Him.

See how Jesus and Satan fight each other for control of this planet with verses from the Bible? Candidly, this fight was pretty nerdy. This battle sounds more like two lawyers in a contract dispute than a battle to control the planet. 📜

The most troubling part of this story is when Satan quotes Psalm 91. How scary is that? See, Satan doesn’t need faith to believe in God because he has already seen God face to face. Satan just doesn’t want to bow down to God, and he doesn’t want you to bow down to God either, which is why Satan knows the Bible better than you.

See Satan knows all the words in the Bible, he just doesn’t understand them all. The word Satan means “adversary” because Satan is the opposite of Jesus. He only understands selfishness. In the next chapter, we will see how and why Satan became that way. Selfishness is why Satan wanted Jesus to turn those stones into bread—that would have been the only time in the Bible when Jesus used his supernatural powers to SERVE HIMSELF. 🤯

The biggest temptation in this battle was the final one. Jesus knew he was going to inherit all the kingdoms of this world, but he also knew he would have to be crucified to accept them. So in verse 8, Satan makes an amazing offer: if Jesus will simply bow down, he can have the prize at the end for free! See, when your enemy can read your playbook, it’s really important to encode the most sensitive information. So that’s why Jesus taught in parables…the metaphors must be applied to another context to be fully understood and evil doesn’t apply them.

Tools for Deobfuscation

Deobfuscating the Bible is something that each person must do for themselves. In the Torah, just after Moses dies, God tells Joshua exactly how to do this.

Joshua 1: 7 Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go. 8 This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are to recite it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do. 9 Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.

So the recommended way to deobfuscate the Bible is to carefully observe it day and night. If you read out loud while you carefully observe, even better.

When I first began my Bible research, I didn’t have the best tools to do this. In 2015, I met a man who completely changed my Bible reading game. I was walking the trail around Town Lake in Austin while listening to an audiobook with large, over-the-ear headphones. I sat down on a park bench to rest beside an older black guy and noticed his stack of books had a large, purple Bible. We just nodded hello and kept reading our books.

Eventually, I said to him, “Hey, I noticed your Bible. I listen to it every morning”.

He replied, “Oh that’s great. I listen to it all night long.”

Intrigued, I asked, “All night? What kind of headphones do you use?”

“Oh, just cheap ones from Walmart”, he said, but slowly his answer turned into a story. This guy proceeded to tell me his entire testimony about how he stabbed a guy and went to jail, found God in solitary confinement, and how listening to the Bible all night totally transformed his life. As he talked, I felt the strangest feeling come over me like I needed to go jump in the water so he could baptize me.

So I interrupted and said, “Hey, I think you may be here to baptize me in the lake”.

He replied, “That’s not what I do. I baptize in the Holy Spirit. I’m not even supposed to be in Austin, I work for a fiber optic company out of Atlanta and we’re doing a job nearby. The Spirit told me to drive here, sit on this bench, and wait for someone”.

I was completely incredulous, so I asked, “How do you know that you’re waiting for me?”

He said, “Your headphones. They always send me to people who are into technology and communications.” 😳

Well I was definitely the right guy, so I asked him to do whatever he came to do and it changed my life. I asked Brother Mike to become my personal Bible coach, and for the next six months we spent hours each week reading the Bible together over the phone. He’s the first person who taught me about the hidden meanings for the numbers, the birds, and even the trees.

You definitely want to be more like a cypress tree than a fig tree.

Upgrading to the Interlinear

The next tool that really improved my deobfuscation game was the Interlinear Bible.

When I started my Bible research, I only used English translations of the Bible. The problem with that is the Old Testament is mostly written in ancient Hebrew, which has only 8,674 distinct words. The English language has over 400,000 distinct words. English words are so much more precise and scientific, which ironically means English translations are more limited to the human translator's own scientific understanding of the universe.

For example, let's say you want to know if the universe was really created in seven days. Day is an English word. The original Hebrew word we translate into day is yome. Yome typically refers to the working day and daylight hours. But the syntax, grammar, and conjugation of Hebrew is different from English, so depending on how yome is used within a sentence affects which English word the translator selects. Yome is used 2,303 times in the Old Testament. Here are all the various English words the translators of the New American Standard Bible used to replace yome. I’ve bolded any English words that were used more than 10 times.

afternoon* (1), age (8), age* (1), all (1), always* (14), amount* (2), battle (1), birthday* (1), Chronicles* (38), completely* (1), continually* (14), course* (1), daily (22), daily the days (1), day (1115), day of the days (1), day that the period (1), day's (6), day's every day (1), daylight* (1), days (635), days on the day (1), days to day (1), days you shall daily (1), days ago (1), days' (11), each (1), each day (4), entire (2), eternity (1), evening* (1), ever in your life* (1), every day (2), fate (1), first (5), forever* (11), forevermore* (1), full (5), full year (1), future* (1), holiday* (3), later* (2), length (1), life (12), life* (1), lifetime (2), lifetime* (1), live (1), long (2), long as i live (1), long* (11), midday* (1), now (5), older* (1), once (2), period (3), perpetually* (2), present (1), recently (1), reigns (1), ripe* (1), short-lived* (1), so long* (1), some time (1), survived* (2), time (45), time* (1), times* (2), today (172), today* (1), usual (1), very old* (1), when(10), when the days (1), whenever (1), while (3), whole (2), year (10), yearly (5), years (13), yesterday* (1).

See how each Hebrew word creates an English word cloud. So which is it? Was the universe created in 7 days? 7 years? 7 always-es? 7 birthdays? 7 periods? 7 nows? or 7-forevers? Whenever I hear English speakers argue about anything in the Bible, I just walk away. 🙄

scientists: For the record, the universe works just like a computer game to God, so I believe he made this solar system in 7 days. It’s not miraculous to me that he creates new worlds that fast, it’s miraculous to me that he created a new world that slow. My kids can create a new world in Minecraft and populate it with plants and animals in 7 minutes, not 7 days. And God talks directly to the chatbot of the universe, so he doesn’t even need a keyboard or a mouse.

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There are more than one hundred English translations of the Bible, and none of them are the only one that is “right”. So when I’m with people who are reading from the Bible, I google the verses and add the word “interlinear”.

Let’s try it together. Here is a google search for “John 1:1 interlinear”. I like the Interlinear Bible at biblehub.com the best. If Bible Hub isn’t your first search result, keep clicking on it and Google will eventually get smarter. The result you’re looking for should look like this:

On BibleHub’s Interlinear Bible you can still read the English words, but now you also get to see the original words written on the scrolls from the real Moses, David, Solomon, Matthew, Luke, John, Peter, and Paul from thousands of years ago. It’s so cool. This Bible is “interlinear” because each word is grouped together with its Strong’s Concordance number, pronunciation, translation, and part of speech.

Let’s look at an example together. Click on the link above, find Biblehub, then read the first sentence until you find the word “Word”, as in “In the beginning was the Word”. It should look like this:

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3056
Logos
Λόγος
Word
N-NMS

In the middle of the stack is the original symbols inscribed by John 2,000 years ago. Above it, Logos is the transliteration. That’s basically how that word would sound to an English speaker today. Below the original symbol is the most common English translation, Word. On the bottom is the part of speech. Here “N” means it’s a noun and the rest of the letters are qualifiers (nominative, masculine, singular). The number at the top, 3056, is the most important datapoint for research. That’s the Strong’s Concordance number. If you tap on the the link for 3056, it will look like this:

Every word in the Bible has a Strong’s Concordance number. If you tap on that number it will provide you with the definition, phonetic sound, “word cloud” of English words from the New American Standard translation, commentaries, and a link to every place that root word occurs in the Bible. Here are all the other ways that Logos is translated into English in the North American Standard Bible:

account (7), account* (1), accounting (2), accounts (2), answer (1), appearance (1), complaint (1), exhortation* (1), have to do (1), instruction (1), length* (1), matter (4), matters (1), message (10), news (3), preaching (1), question (2), reason (2), reasonable (1), remark (1), report (1), said (1), say (1), saying (4), sayings (1), speaker (1), speech (10), statement (18), story (1), talk (1), teaching (2), thing (2), things (1), utterance (2), what he says (1), what* (1), word (179), words (61).

So John 1:1 could mean:

In the beginning was the Accounting
In the beginning was the Instruction
In the beginning was the Message
In the beginning was the Reason
In the beginning was the Speech
In the beginning was the Word

The word Logos is where we get the English word Logic, so I prefer:

In the beginning was the Logic

What do you think Logos means?

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