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Allow me, for a minute, to express some frustration.
The fact that when one assigns a number value to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the numerical value of the Hebrew name "Ruth" is 606--and that if you then add 7 to that, for the 7 Noahide laws she would have kept before converting to Judaism--that those add up to 613, number of commandments that Jews consider themselves obligated to observe...this is not proof that God exists. This is not proof that God wrote the Bible. This is not proof that Ruth existed.
It may be fun or entertaining--in the same way that reading my Free Will Astrology horoscope is fun. It is innocuous and impotent, and if you tell me with a straight face that you believe otherwise, I will laugh at you. It's not that I know with certainty that God does or does not exist, wrote or didn't write the Bible, or cares or doesn't care about you. I don't think anyone knows, and you're free to believe what you want. But for Pete (or Ruth, or God, or Christ)'s sake, don't believe in it because of things like this.
The fact that when one assigns a number value to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the numerical value of the Hebrew name "Ruth" is 606--and that if you then add 7 to that, for the 7 Noahide laws she would have kept before converting to Judaism--that those add up to 613, number of commandments that Jews consider themselves obligated to observe...this is not proof that God exists. This is not proof that God wrote the Bible. This is not proof that Ruth existed.
It may be fun or entertaining--in the same way that reading my Free Will Astrology horoscope is fun. It is innocuous and impotent, and if you tell me with a straight face that you believe otherwise, I will laugh at you. It's not that I know with certainty that God does or does not exist, wrote or didn't write the Bible, or cares or doesn't care about you. I don't think anyone knows, and you're free to believe what you want. But for Pete (or Ruth, or God, or Christ)'s sake, don't believe in it because of things like this.