![]() ![]() This led to his conversion to Christianity, as attested to by his publication in 1891 of The Structure of the Bible: A Proof of the Verbal Inspiration of Scripture. Making parallel lists of verses with and without the article, he discovered that there was an entire system of mathematical relationships underlying the text. This conversion occurred in 1890 when his attention was caught by the first chapter of John, in which the article (“the”) is used before “God” in one instance, and left out in the next: “and the Word was with the God, and the Word was God.” He began to examine the text to see if there was an underlying pattern contributing to this peculiarity. Panin became well known as a firm agnostic- so well known that when he discarded his agnosticism, and accepted the Christian faith the newspapers carried headlines telling of his conversion.” His lectures were delivered in colleges and before exclusive literary clubs in many cities of the United States and Canada. “After his college days he became an outstanding lecturer on the subject of literary criticism. Karl Sabiers, who wrote Russian Scientist Proves Divine Inspiration of Bible during the last year of Panin’s life, wrote: Having already written The Revolutionary Movement in Russia in 1881, he traveled around giving lectures on Russian literature (especially Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, and Tolstoy, authors who had contributed to the social upheaval that forced changes in Russia during the mid 1800s). At the age of 22 he emigrated to the United States and entered Harvard University, where he spent four years, picking up Greek and Hebrew, and graduating in 1882 with a Master of Literary Criticism. He had a voracious appetite for knowledge, especially in literature and linguistics. Neither the government nor the Czar looked kindly upon this.įinding himself exiled at the age of 18, he emigrated to Germany, where he held citizenship from 1874 to 1877. In effect, the newly freed serfs (18) were seen by these ‘nihilists’ as not actually free, but merely being sold into wage slavery, and the solution settled upon was to educate them. ![]() This time in Russia saw many of the upper classes leaving their luxurious homes to go to the factories and teach the less fortunate, for which efforts they were tortured, often to the point of insanity or death. ![]() As a young man he participated in a movement to educate the under-classes, a movement which was labeled nihilism by observers from neighboring countries the members of the movement merely called themselves revolutionaries. ![]() Ivan Nikolayevitsh Panin, often called the ‘father of Bible numerics’ was born in Russia, December 12, 1855. ![]()
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