When I first designed this website between 2001-2003, and during the time I wrote the Bible Wheel book during 2003-2005, I identified myself in my FAQ as follows:

Are you a Christian? Protestant? Catholic?
Praise God, I am a man saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesian 2:8). I am a non-denominational blood-bought Bible-believing Trinitarian Christian. I believe that the true "faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3) is well stated in the early creeds of the church that Christ founded.

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

2 Corinthians 13:5f

THE NICENE CREED  is an ancient statement of faith held in common amongst Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, and many Protestant Churches. I use it here as a template for my personal statement of my living faith, and to show how the Wheel adorns these fundamental Christian Doctrines with simplicity, beauty, and grace.

I believe in one God,

The primary Biblical witness to the doctrine of the Unity of God is called the Shema, from the first Hebrew word of Deuteronomy 6.4:

Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

The Lord Jesus Christ reiterated this statement and declared it to be the greatest commandment. It is the basis of The Unity Holograph, which encodes and unifies the names of each Divine Person of the Blessed Trinity. I cherish this holographic verse as one of the greatest treasures revealed in Scripture, and adhere to the doctrine of the Unity of God with all my heart, all my soul, and all my strength.

the Father Almighty,

The First Word of the Hebrew language, (Av, Father), is also the name of the the First Person of the Blessed Trinity. It is analysed in terms of the meaning of its letters as follows:

Father (, Av) = Aleph (, Leader/Guide) & Beyt (, House)

In plain English, this analysis shows that the Father is the Head of the House. Just as a natural father is head over his house, so God the Father is the Head of the Household of Faith.

The divine order of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit manifests in the content of the First, Second, and Third Spokes of the Wheel. Case in point: the distribution of all verses that mention God and Abraham (Exalted Father) is greatly maximized on Spoke 1.

The preeminence of God the Father also manifests in the first word of the Holy Bible, (Berashith, In the beginning). This word is numerically identical to the value of the Greek phrase (Ho Theos Ho Pater, God the Father). Thus, the ancient Christian doctrine of the primacy of God the Father is encoded in the intrinsic alphanumeric structure of the united Greek and Hebrew languages:

God the Father = 913 = In the Beginning

Such beauty! Such Grace!

Berashith is also an anagram of the phrase (Shirath Av) which means The Father's Song. This is a kind of subtitle to the whole Bible, encoded in the first word.

maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;

The Doctrine of Creation is profoundly integrated with the structure of the Wheel. This manifests in the distribution of words relating to creation (Hebrew bara and Greek ktidzo) being greatly maximized on Spoke 1.

In the first chapter of the last book of the Bible, the Lord God Almighty declares that he is "Alpha and Omega". This integrates with the Greek term for the Creator:

(Alpha Omega) = 801 = (Ho Ktisas, The Creator)

The implications of this one identity are absolutely staggering. There can be no possible explanation but that the hidden hand of the Lord God Almighty guided the development of the Greek language to reveal his glory. Praise his holy name!

And in one Lord Jesus Christ,

The prophetic name of the Lord Jesus Christ given in Isaiah 7.14 is profoundly integrated with the great name of Almighty God, I AM THAT I AM. We have a pair of identities:

It is impossible to conceieve of a more direct reference to the Lord Jesus Christ as Almighty God.

the only begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds,

The Second Book, Exodus, contains the first reference to God's Son. (Exodus 4.22). This same pattern manifests in the Psalms, where the great prophecy "Thou art my son" is found in Second Psalm. Likewise, the nature of the Second Person, whose name is called the Word of God, integrates with the meaning of the Letter Beyt, which manifests in the distribution of the word "Word" on the Wheel being maximized on Spoke 2.

The nature of the Second Person is deeply integrated with the meaning of the Second Letter. All the fulness of the Godhead dwells in Christ Jesus. He is the dwelling place - the house of God.

Likewise, just as Aleph is the initial letter of Av, the name of God the Father, so Beyt is the initial letter of the name of God the Son, Ben. And just as the analysis of the letters Aleph Beyt teaches that God the Father is the Head of the Household of Faith, so the analysis of the letters Beyt Nun reveals the nature of God the Son:

Son (,Ben) = Beyt (, House) & Nun (, Posterity/Inheritance)

Simply stated, the Son is the Posterity of the House. He inherits his father's house, all that his Father rules over, as it is written (Hebrews - Spoke 14):

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made;

As shown above, the names of the first two members of the Holy Trinity follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet - Father (Av), Son (Ben). When these two words are merged into one - so they share a common Beyt (House or dwelling place) - the resulting unity is the Stone (Aven):

This is the cornerstone of our Faith - the Unity of God the Father and God the Son in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the power of the Holy Ghost through the Virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried;

The crucifixion is the axis of the Wheel. The name of the place where he was hung - Golgotha - is a variation on the Hebrew word for the Wheel, Galgal. The Aramaic name is simple the word for a Wheel suffixed by an Aleph and Tav - the first and last letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. When this is coupled with the symbolic meaning of Aleph (The Everlasting God) and the meaning of Tav (The Cross, the Seal of Creation and Truth), we see the essence of the Wheel, from Aleph to Tav, is the crucifixion of Almighty God upon the Cross! Praise His Holy Name for the endless wonders of his infinite wisdom and abundant grace poured out for us there and evermore in his Holy Word!

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> (gegonen, It is finished), and the value of the name of Quph, the Ninteenth Letter. The meaning of the Crucifixion is profoundly integrated with the Wheel on Spoke 19.

and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.

The Ascension of the Lord into the clouds is described on Spoke 22 in Acts 1.9f:

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

The angels said Jesus would come back in the same manner that he ascended. This is recorded on Spoke 22 in Revelation 1.7f:

Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

This theme naturally integrates with Spoke 22, where all Creation is consumated in the Book of Revelation:

Thematic Link: Christ Coming with Clouds

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This is discussed in the article Christ Coming with Clouds.

And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord, and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets.

The divine integration of the nature of the Holy Spirit with the Third Letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the Third Spoke of the Wheel is astounding to behold. Spoke 3 is the only Spoke on the Wheel to contain the explicit statement that the Lord is the Spirit (II Corinthians 3.17).

Yet this is but the beginning. The Creed refers to the Holy Spirit as the Giver of Life. This links to the Gimel KeyWord Gomel which means Abundant Giver and manifests in the great doctrine of Giving found in 2 Corinthians on Spoke 3.

Likewise, the greatest density of the word comfort, the root of the name of the Holy Spirit, (Parakletos) is found in the opening verses of II Corithians, and its value integrates with the Number 3 and the Greek word for a Friend:

Comforter = Friend = 810 = 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 10

These identities are discussed in the Gematria Reference under the Number 810.

The order of the alphabet integrates with everything we have seen above concerning the Father and the Son. The letter Gimel "proceeds from" (comes after) the Aleph and Beyt, in perfect harmony with the teaching of Scripture that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father (Av - Aleph) and the Son (Ben - Beyt).

And I believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church; I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. AMEN.

I must make one caveat here - I do not believe that water baptism is necessary for salvation. The forgiveness of sins comes by grace through faith in Christ, at which time we are baptised into Christ Jesus (Romans 6). Note also that "catholic" means universal. It does not refer to the Roman Catholic Church.

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