I've read the first of the Drosnin books, where he throws out Bible code predictions about meteors and nuclear holocausts, and your all right, the scripture (even the BC if it is valid) should not be used for fortune telling. For anyone wanting a great read on the subject that also has a great deal of background on the current subject, try Satinover's 'Cracking the Bible Code'. He treats it as what it is, a statistical anomoly.
Jewish oral tradition has it that G-d gave the Torah to Moses, letter for letter, as a continuous stream of text which the Hebrews were to meticulously copy from generation to generation. Ancient Jewish and Christian mystics examined this text for encoded information, as did Isaac Newton.
It's true that any text of considerable length will inevitably hold equidistant letter sequences that make up words and phrases, but Satinover states that most of the mathematicians that work seriously on these codes emphasize 'minimal skip' patterns. That is, statistically, given the size of the text, the shorter sequences mean a greater significance of probability. And he details the probability ratio of some of the early findings. Giving examples, such as the SCUD attacks during the first Gulf War, these shorter letter skips, along with dates in close proximity in a cluster matrix to the encrypted event showed more accurate details of the attacks. There were three possible dates in the matrix of text and the one with the shortest sequence closest to the encrypted "Iraq" and "SCUD attacks" (or something close) proved to be the date that the attacks began.
I also read about the Moby Dick experiment, and this BC thing could all prove to be just a common linguistic phenomena. It's possible. Many of us want to believe it. I'm sure many are just neutral, and some are skeptical because of critical minds or even that there is a fear that they don't want to buy into this if it's just going to be disproven. However, if G-d did encrypt His Word with these tell-tale watermarks, I would not be surprised by it.
If the LORD is bound neither by time nor space, as I'm sure most of us believe, then would it be unreasonable to find that His inspired Scripture bears evidence of that characteristic?
Jewish oral tradition has it that G-d gave the Torah to Moses, letter for letter, as a continuous stream of text which the Hebrews were to meticulously copy from generation to generation. Ancient Jewish and Christian mystics examined this text for encoded information, as did Isaac Newton.
It's true that any text of considerable length will inevitably hold equidistant letter sequences that make up words and phrases, but Satinover states that most of the mathematicians that work seriously on these codes emphasize 'minimal skip' patterns. That is, statistically, given the size of the text, the shorter sequences mean a greater significance of probability. And he details the probability ratio of some of the early findings. Giving examples, such as the SCUD attacks during the first Gulf War, these shorter letter skips, along with dates in close proximity in a cluster matrix to the encrypted event showed more accurate details of the attacks. There were three possible dates in the matrix of text and the one with the shortest sequence closest to the encrypted "Iraq" and "SCUD attacks" (or something close) proved to be the date that the attacks began.
I also read about the Moby Dick experiment, and this BC thing could all prove to be just a common linguistic phenomena. It's possible. Many of us want to believe it. I'm sure many are just neutral, and some are skeptical because of critical minds or even that there is a fear that they don't want to buy into this if it's just going to be disproven. However, if G-d did encrypt His Word with these tell-tale watermarks, I would not be surprised by it.
If the LORD is bound neither by time nor space, as I'm sure most of us believe, then would it be unreasonable to find that His inspired Scripture bears evidence of that characteristic?
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