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I-Ching is related to God?

What if you don't believe in God?

Lots of people don't believe in God.  I don't blame them.  Until now, God has been thought to be a myth.  People worshipped false Gods and human idols.  Some would carve an image on a piece of wood and call it a God.  Some would worship a dead person as a God.  Some religious leaders would tell lies to scam people's money saying, "If you don't believe in our God, God will cast you into hell!   If you don't donate your money to our church, you cannot enter heaven."   Some religious leaders would say anything to gain wealth and power.  Their real goal is not to carry out salvation to the people.  Their real goal is to gain political power, wealth, and fame.  They speak in the name of God.  They scare people using the name of God making people work for them for free.  I have seen too many of these cases.  I have seen people working day and night for their religious organizations all for free.  Those people have been scammed.  Those people have been used by con artists as tools to gain power and fame. 

But there is a God.  God is the mechanism of the universe.  God is the mathematical formula of the universe.  If you learn I-Ching, you can communicate with God.  Right now, you might not know the power of I-Ching.  But I guarantee you that after you have practiced I-Ching for a few month, you will find that there is a sequence hidden in the coins.  Every coin toss will show you a specific sequence.  If you toss the coins several times for one question, you will find that the results usually coincide.  Everytime you toss the coins asking about a same question, the result comes out the same!  Then things will happen according to what the hexagrams have indicated.  Then you will realize that there is a mathematical formula which runs the universe.  You will realize that there is a God which runs and propels the entire world.  You will realize that God's motion can be calculated and can be predicted using I-Ching.  Then, you will gradually become a real prophet.   The more you practice I-Ching, the more you will understand the Lord.  You will become Lord's witness. 

I realized that Immortality Device cannot save a person from life threatening dangers.  You still could die in a car accident even if you use the Immortality Device every night.  Using the Immortality Device does not mean that God has made a special covenant with you.  You never know what God will do to you next.  God can kill you tomorrow morning if he wills.  That's why you need to become a prophet yourself so you can communicate with God.  The ones who cannot communicate with God are basically waiting for death to happen.  God will take their lives away sooner or later using different methods.   They either die in car accidents or in plane crash.  God either command a bank robber to shoot them to death or send a terrorist to crash a plane into the building where these people live.  That's why I recommend you to learn I-Ching.  If you don't learn I-Ching, you don't really believe in God.  Therefore you deserve to die.   I don't accept donations from people, so you know I am not telling you this in order to make you donate your money to me.  I am not saying this just to scare people for my own benefit.  I am saying this to you because I am telling you the truth.   If you don't learn I-Ching, you are waiting for God to take away your life.   If that's OK with you, fine.  You don't have to learn I-Ching.  But if you do value you life and would like to live for eternity, I suggest you to start learning I-Ching today.  You need to protect yourself from life threatening dangers.   Just because you are wearing the Immortality Device does not mean that God will treat you like his own son. 

Remember!  God is not a human being.  He is the mathematical formula of the universe.  He doesn't love you, nor does he hate you.  He has no feelings for you.  You are his chess piece, and he is the chess player.    If he allows you to live, you will live.   If he wants you to die, you shall die.  But if you know how to speak his language, you can speak out to him and bargain with him.  He will tell you his every move, and you can reject his move if the move endangers your life.  If he tells you that you will die tomorrow in a car accident, just stay home tomorrow and don't go out.  If he tells you that he plans to kill you in an earthquake, just leave your home and travel to somewhere safe. 

Here is an example why you must always believe in God:

From the Old Testament, 1 Kings 13:

The king said to the man of God, "Come home with me and have something to eat, and I will give you a gift."  But the man of God answered the king, "Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water here.  For I was commanded by the word of the LORD:  'You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.'"   So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel. 

Now there was an old prophet living in Bethel who heard about this.  The old prophet went to look for the man of God.  He found the man of God sitting under an oak tree and said to him, "Come home with me and eat."   The man of God said, "I cannot turn back and go with you, nor can I eat bread or drink water with you in this place.  God told me if I do that, I will surely die."   The old prophet answered, "I am also a prophet, just like you.  And an angel said to me that the LORD allows you to eat and drink at my house."  (But he was lying to him.)

So the man of God returned with him and ate and drank in his house.  While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the old prophet.  So the old prophet said to the man of God, "This is what the LORD says: `You have defied the word of the LORD.  You came back and ate bread and drank water in the place where the LORD told you not to eat or drink. Therefore your body will not be buried in the tomb of your fathers.'"  The man of God left the old prophet's house after he had finished eating and drinking.  As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was thrown down on the road.

I-Ching is related to God?

Open up the old testament to NEVI'IM I and read the verse Samuel 28:6,

• "And Saul inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him, neither by dreams nor by Urim nor by prophets."

What is 'Urim'? Urim is a kind of oracle used by the Hebrews for predicting the future. In another verse of the Torah, Exodus 28.30, it reads,

• "Inside the breastpiece of decision you shall place the Urim and Thummin. Thus Aaron shall carry the instrument of decision for the Israelites over his heart before the Lord."

So clearly, 'Urim' and another instrument called the 'Thummin' are instruments used for predicting the future back in those days. In I Samuel, it says:

• "Saul wanted to wage war against the Philistines. He inquired the Lord using Urim and Thummin, but Lord didn't show them a lucky sign.  So Saul said, "Come forward, all chief officers, and find out why Lord is not on our side.  Let's find out who is the one which brought guilt upon us."  Saul told the troops to stand on one side while Saul and his own son stood on another side. Then he said, "Show Thummin."   Jonathan and Saul were indicated to be the trouble maker, and the troops were cleared. And Saul said, "Cast the lots between my son and me."; and Jonathan was indicated to be the guilt bearer." [NEVI'IM Samuel 14:41]
  

So appearently, Thummin and Urim, according to the bible description, were some kind of casting oracles.  One casts these oracles on the ground in order to retrieve a sign which allows one to foretell the future. This is the ancient Hebrew fortune telling technique. The Chinese people use I-Ching, a similar method, to predict the future.   Chinese throw 3 coins on the ground in order to retrieve a sign.

Related article: The Catholic Encyclopedia: Urim and Thummin

The ancient Egyptians and Hebrews have their own astrological, mathematical systems to decipher God's codes allowing their prophets to prophesy the future. Unfortunately, their knowledge of how to prophesy were lost thanks to the witch hunt which occured in Europe. Fortunately, Chinese people didn't punish their witches nor their prophets. All knowledge concerning future prediction techniques and prophetic studies were neatly preserved and were written in text books which were passed down throughout the centuries.

Does God allow I-Ching?

Using I-Ching or any other kind of oracle to predict the future is not a sin against God.  Moses said that all medians, star gazers, and sorcerers must be put to death.   But Moses didn't say that all prophets must die too.  If Moses did order all prophets to be put to death, he would have been the first one to die because Moses, just like any other Hebrew prophets, was using Urim and Thummin to predict the future! 

A prophet is different from medians, star gazers, and sorcerers. 

• A median is a psychic who bears the power to draw ghosts onto his own body. 
  
• A sorcerer is an evil person who practices voodoo and evil witchcraft to hurt people. 
  
• A star gazer is someone who gaze at stars to predict the future.  Just because the star gazer saw the North Star, he says that there will be a war in his country.  But think about it.  Everyone in the world probably could see the North Star if the star gazer could see it.   That means everyone who sees the North Star must expect a war in his own country?   What if the star gazer said  the appearance of Neptune means your son shall die?  That means everyone who sees Neptune shall expect the death of a son?  That's why Moses did not allow star gazing. 

A prophet is a fortune teller who is very accurate in his prediction. A prophet is a person who uses casting oracles like Urim and Thummin to predict the future.   I-Ching is very similar to Urim and Thummin.  Using I-Ching to predict the future allows one to become a prophet.  They say that a prophet is God's close friend. I find that to be absolutely true. After you learned how to predict the future, it feels like that God is finally telling you everything about himself. God has nothing to hide from you. You start to learn more and more about God, and he is encouraging you to learn more about him.

God built men in his image?

In the Torah, Genesis 1:26, God said, "Let's make man in my image, after my likeness." How come men is made after God's likeness? If men is made after God's likeness, then I-Ching must also be similar to men's likeness because I-Ching is a language of God.

In I-Ching, there are Ying and Yang. (brightness and darkness) In animals, there are DNA and RNA. In I-Ching, there are a total of 64 hexagrams. In animals, the number of codons in the genetic code is also 64. In I-Ching, Ying separates into two, and Yang separates into two. That makes four. Each of the four separates into two. That makes eight. Each of the eight separates into two. That makes 64.  In biochemistry, DNA and RNA become four nucleotide bases.  Then both the DNA and RNA separate into 2.   Then those chemicals also separate into 2.  At the end, there are exactly 64 codons in the genetic code.

There are 64 hexagrams in I-Ching, and there are 64 codons in the universal genetic code. I-Ching hexagrams are being composed of 3 symbols of 2 lines each. The codons are composed of 4 nucleic acids taken 3 at a time. The problem is: which nucleic acid corresponds to which I-Ching symbol?

THE 4 EMBLEMATIC SYMBOLS OF DNA / RNA

6 8 9 7 "Ritual" numbers

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