For those that are into the bible.

I don't do the bible or religion but I know it seemed common practice for the monks etc to use the same parchment over and over because of the cost or availability of velum etc. Many of the masterpeices that have been painted are on top of other paintings that the canvas was originaly used for.

I've been studying it for more than 60 years, each time I do a study, I find something new.

In what capacity do you study the bible? I mean, are you clergy, I'm not talking to the Archbishop, am I?

I didn't mean 'god squad' in a derogatory sense. It would be fair to say I'm not religious but I have no axe to grind with anyone who is. Each to their own. 

Here's something new for you.

If all references to Jesus and Christianity are removed from the Greek text of Romans 1, 1-17 (I used the early 20th century Nestle-Aland text) one is left with a text containing exactly 1000 letters. This text is divided into 4 sections, each of 51 words (one has to move a verse that some have speculated seems out of place to a position where it makes more sense). This text now has the author claiming to have been sent by God to explain the meaning of the scriptures. The impression is that Jesus and Christianity were interpolated into the text at a later date. In this text the word God is used 8 times. In each instance the first letter or the word God, or the first letter of its definite article when it has one, is an even number of letters from the beginning of the text. The word God, or its definite article, is, in seven out of the eight instances, an odd number of words from the beginning of the text. The "odd one out" being the only instance when the nominative is used. If the positions of the eight first letters are totaled and divided by 8 one gets the first letter of the word meaning "The present moment".

I have experimented with writing text using the above technique and found it fairly easy to arrange for the first letters of the word God to be an even number of letters from the beginning ... and for the total of the positions of every 8 letters to identify a significant word when divided by 8. 

There are. There are books that cover cosmology, the existence of demons and their origins etc that paint a significantly different cosmic picture than the cannon bible and also some very peculiar depictions of the parts of Jesus' life not covered in the new Testament. One story in which Jesus appears to be claiming his disciples are not worshiping the right god and the creator of the world we live in is not actually the God.