Could God have actually left his signature on the book He authored? The evidence suggests so.
More work needs to be done on this subject, and at the current time it is controversial. Nevertheless, many brilliant and credible Bible scholars, mathematicians, and computer scientists believe it is true.
Beginning at least as early as the 1800s and through today, gifted people have made exhaustive studies in the original Hebrew and Greek languages of the ancient Bible manuscripts. These researchers claim their results prove that the writings had to have come from an infinite and omniscient Mind.
One person who studied this phenomenon was a Russian immigrant and Harvard graduate, Dr. Ivan Panin, who spent 50 years and accumulated 43,000 pages of notes on the subject before he died in 1942. A more recently published work is Theomatics, by Jerry Lucas and Del Washburn.
Unlike English, in both Hebrew and Greek, the main languages in which God chose to give us the Bible, numbers are not separate characters but are represented by letters of the alphabet. For example, in Greek, the first letter "alpha" (for the English A) is also the number 1. Panin and others have gone to the manuscripts and have assigned the appropriate numerical value for each letter, then they looked for patterns.
The results are mind-boggling - patterns of numbers that could not have been placed there by humans and probability theory analysis shows that such an elaborate "accident" is impossible. For example, in the first verse of the Bible, Panin found 30 different patterns of the number seven, a number the Bible gives special significance. In English, the verse has ten words, but in Hebrew, only seven. The seven words have exactly 28 (4 X 7) letters. The nouns in the sentence give a combined 777 (111 X 7). The two objects of the verb have seven letters, and so on. The chance of 30 combinations of seven in a seven-word sentence happening accidentally is described as 1 in 33,000,000,000,000.
According to an Associated Press report a few years ago, after subjecting the first five books of the Bible to exhaustive computer analysis, researchers in Israel came to an amazing conclusion. The Torah, or the five books of Moses, had long been assumed by skeptics to be the work of mere men and multiple authors. But Scripture scholar Moshe Katz and computer expert Menachem Wiener of the Israel Institute of Technology analyzed the book's material through sophisticated computer analysis. They discovered an intricate pattern of meaningful words hidden in those books, spelled by letters separated at fixed intervals, the phenomenon called "equidistant letter spacing (ELS)." For example, in the book of Genesis, the first book of the Jewish Torah, the word "Torah" is found repeated at 50-character intervals and "Elohim" (God) at 26-character intervals. It would have been impossible for a mere mortal to have done this, and statistically it could not have happened by chance. Mr. Wiener said, "We need a non-rational explanation. And ours is that the (Torah) was written by God through the hand of Moses."
In all of this, it appears that the omniscient Creator left a persuasive signature on his Word, making the apostle Paul's statement even more graphic and understandable: "All Scripture is God-breathed."