EzraLB wrote:Clearly, there is nothing that happens in the Bible by mere chance. While the KJV uses the phrase "by chance" in Luke 10:31, the CNT more correctly uses the term "And there happened...."
They drew lots in choosing Matthias - Acts 1:26
That said, I've experienced similar "coincidences" concerning Scripture. Many times when I'm listening to Bill's podcasts, and I'm reading some other seemingly unrelated material, he will use an uncommon word just at the same moment that I'm reading that word in a completely different context. The chances that this would happen completely randomly are slim; however, what I've found is that as we conform our lives to the Scripture, these kinds of "synchronicities" become more commonplace.
I've used the term 'divine synchronization' many times to explain something being more than mere coincidence. I can't tell you how many times I've turned to the exact page in Scripture that I was looking for, faster than a computer lol.
Of course, the concept of "synchroniticity" was coined by Carl Jung as a way of describing the "collective unconscious". While I understand that Jung was anti-Christian, I do believe that White Israelites do share a "collective unconscious" which might be understood as Yahweh's Word written in our hearts. Perhaps without realizing it, this is why Jung objected to jewish Freudian psychoanalysis--Jung believed that this jewish mindset could not be applied to "gentile" psychology, which, of course, is true.
I believe there is a genetic memory that is supernaturally transposed from generation to generation. The New Covenant was the Law put in our hearts and mind, a collective unconscious if you will; Lord knows how dormant it is. Another thing that piques my interest is the study of memes. I wrote this recently: The word meme has come to mean an accretion (or increase) of knowledge, which when packaged with other ideas can be passed onto others. It's more complex than a mere idea; it is the mental equivalent of a gene. They act as if they have a life of their own, which is not the relevant point, but rather that a meme will replicate and have a dynamic that is absent from most ideas. There will always be a few adherents of any “ism” who may be the actual carriers, but eventually they may find themselves beached upon a shore that has no tides. The meme itself then becomes a template for the configuration of what we perceive to be our reality. A good example of your typical meme is a YouTube video that is said to go “viral,” a virus in the form of a concept. I also like to compare a meme to schools of fish or flocks of birds that all turn on a dime at the same time; you can't tell who the leader is, because they all move in unison. With memes, man can find mankind or man can find God. - See more at: http://kinsmanredeemer.com/white-genoci ... LPhfD.dpuf
Mark