Numerology?

Numbers are very important in the bible. God created numbers. If you are interested in numbers there are plenty of good books about biblical numerology. It is a fascinating subject - biblical numerology. Did you know that 13 was sin and rebellion and 16 was love. 8 is new birth and 50 is jubilee. Colors also are in the bible - did you know that blue represents heaven, grace and mercy and a whole host of other things.

Go for it - but stay in the bible.
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It's ridiculous that you should get backlash for believing in Numerology- it's just like believing in the inner connectedness of things around us. That not everything is just an accident or random which I find to be peaceful. It's also sentimental and that's really nice too. I added up me, my husbands, and my baby's birthdates, then kept adding the total numbers together til there was the base #'s and it came to the number 3. For the 3 of us forever. Many Cultures have a stong belief in Numerology and I think it's ethnocentric for us to shun it just b/c we don't understand it. I believe all things are connected. Keep learning about it- it is fascinating and fun too! Doesn't matter what others think anyway- people are always afraid of ideas and concepts that threaten what they perceive to be the right way to live and think.

I listent to The Sky Psychic network over yahoo IM (more of a self help network thank psychic) and they have a guy on every Tues or Thurs from noon to 2 (on the Lisa J Smith show) that does numerology. I think the web address is psychiconair.com. You should be able to track down a resource or two that way. The guy they have on her show does a free numerology service that may get you started. Good Luck!

I believe that God can speak to us through numbers, but not to focus on that. For example, about 20 years ago, I was 33, apt. # 3, 153 Higdon Avenue, 3 people in my house, my son was 3 and my license plate had number 330 on it - all at the same time!!! I think God can use numbers to show you you are in His will. When I met my husband he and I both like the number 7, he lived on Nathan Way, (the same name as my son) and we both liked to decorate in black, white and red. - Those were just a few of the MANY coincidences that were when we met - we're both from two different countries (me, Canada, him, Lebanon), so what is the chance of that? However this showed God's grace, it wasn't because I was seeking numbers for answers.

God created the universe with mathematics, and order so it's going to show up in different ways. Physics is mathematics!

Seek God all the time for everything. - personally I don't believe in coincidence. I believe God orchestrates "Coincidences". "Pray without ceasing" is what the bible says. My husband is born on March 27, my daughter March 26 (would have been the 27th if she had been born in Lebanon) and my other daughter June 26.

If you pray every morning, ask for God's guidance every morning, and wait for God's guidance to do anything, - up your prayer life, then God will guide you in all of your actions and that will be a much better life for you than turning to numbers. Numerology itself, - trying to decide what to do through numbers is the same thing as divination (forbidden) or "magic", which we as Christians don't want to be involved with. If you start to follow numerology, for example, you could end up being a plaything of the demons, which is a road you don't want to travel. It's better to pray, believe God will answer you, and through faith he will. Going to church helps too. Check out http://www.antiochian.org/about

Divination is a sin, however, God will speak to us in many different ways, such as me, with numbers. After all, he led the Magi to the babe in the manger with a star. However, they didn't seek the star for guidance, and neither did they pray to it.

The God we serve is a God of order and he does use numbers to create some of that order.

You may be getting backlash because even in this post it seems like your fascination for numbers may be an idle for you. You should have no other god's before God.

Cautiously do your research but seek the kingdom of God first above everything else.

I do remember seeing a book on numbers and the Bible but I don't remember the title.