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Notes from building Carestead, and Carestead Research: open studies of the biblical text, with their data.

Research

The flood story is built like a mirror

Read Genesis 6 to 9 slowly and it walks you in to one line, "God remembered Noah", and then back out again, step for step. We put that shape to a hard test. It passed.

  • The flood story's matching halves really do echo each other, word for word: of 1,000 other Hebrew stories cut the same way, none matched as well.
  • At the centre of the whole account stands one line: "God remembered Noah." The story is built around God's faithfulness.
  • The mirror is there in the Samaritan copy of Genesis too, a separate line of copies kept apart for over two thousand years.

7 min read

  • Research

    Did God hide a code in the Bible?

    Count every 50th letter from the start of Genesis and you spell "Torah". We tested the Bible codes the way the Bereans tested Paul, against the text itself. Here is what we found, and why faith does not need them.

    7 min read

  • Research

    Do patterns in Scripture prove it is God's word?

    Hidden codes, mirrored stories, prophecies fulfilled to the day. We put the most famous patterns to fair tests, with the rules fixed before we looked. Here is what held, what fell short, and where our confidence in Scripture really rests.

    8 min read