The Bible Code

[Jaaaman]

For three thousand years a code in the bible has remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer-and it may reveal our future.
Events that happened thousands of years after the bible was written-ww2, the moon landing, watergate, both Kennedy assassinations, the election of Bill Clinton, the OKC bombing- all were foretold in the code.
In a few dramatic cases detailed predictions were found in advance, and the events then happened exactly as predicted. The date the Gulf War would begin was found before the war started. The Rabin assassination was found a year before the murder.
And the code may warn of unprecedented danger yet to come-perhaps the real Apocalypse.
The Bible Code is the first full account of a scientific discovery that may change the world, tod by a skeptical secular reporter who became part of the story.

What do you all think about this? I purchased this book about a week ago..... Its really quite amazing to me......

 

[S Walch]

I've read it.

Interesting theory, but it's wrong.

 

[Vylo]

The bible code has been shown to be bunk a million times. Assign enough arbitrary symbolism to any text, and you can make up anything.

 

[HumbleMan]

The only code I'm interested in in the bible is the salvation code= Grace +Faith=Eternity

 

[Norseman]

Apparently there's also a Moby Dick code. The author of Moby Dick mysteriously knew about several assassinations before they took place. Maybe the author of Moby Dick was god? The plot thickens.

 

[Vylo]

I am more into the delicious code. Chocolate + milk = yum.

 

[Norseman]

I am more into the delicious code. Chocolate + milk = yum.

Steak + steak sauce = Norseman drooling

 

[Jaaaman]

Apparently there's also a Moby Dick code. The author of Moby Dick mysteriously knew about several assassinations before they took place. Maybe the author of Moby Dick was god? The plot thickens.

Of course you can find random letter combinations in any text. You will find 'Saddam Hussein' in any large enough data base, but you won't find 'Scuds,' 'Russian missiles,' and the day the war began, all in the same place, in advance. It doesn't matter if we're looking in a text of 100,000 or 100,000,000 letters, you will not find coherent information--except in the Bible.

 

[S Walch]

The only code I'm interested in in the bible is the salvation code= Grace +Faith=Eternity

Amen brother.

Amen

 

[Norseman]

Of course you can find random letter combinations in any text. You will find 'Saddam Hussein' in any large enough data base, but you won't find 'Scuds,' 'Russian missiles,' and the day the war began, all in the same place, in advance. It doesn't matter if we're looking in a text of 100,000 or 100,000,000 letters, you will not find coherent information--except in the Bible.

Apparently the Hebrew translation of "War and Peace" had just as much sucess in finding the names and death dates of famous rabbis as the Bible.

"Essentially the way that the code works is the author takes all the words in the bible, removes all spaces between the words and punctuation, then using a computer he looks at every (*)th word. He then strings these words together to try and find some connection to events that have already happened, called retro-fitting. Using this code you can find hidden messages in any book, Drosnin's critics claimed, in which he retorted " when my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them." One of his critics, Brendan McKay took up the challenge to find that message and not only did he find it, a reference to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, she also found messages about other assassinations of; President Rene Moawad, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther King, the assassin Sirhan Sirhan, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and the list goes on. But David E. Thomas dealt the final death blow came when he found the saying "The code is bogus" 60 times in the book of Genesis."

 

[Petunia]

The only code I'm interested in in the bible is the salvation code= Grace +Faith=Eternity

Amen!!

 

[Petunia]

Chocolate + milk = yum.

Uh.. Amen to that too!

 

[lucid42day]

Apparently the Hebrew translation of "War and Peace" had just as much sucess in finding the names and death dates of famous rabbis as the Bible.

"Essentially the way that the code works is the author takes all the words in the bible, removes all spaces between the words and punctuation, then using a computer he looks at every (*)th word. He then strings these words together to try and find some connection to events that have already happened, called retro-fitting. Using this code you can find hidden messages in any book, Drosnin's critics claimed, in which he retorted " when my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them." One of his critics, Brendan McKay took up the challenge to find that message and not only did he find it, a reference to Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, she also found messages about other assassinations of; President Rene Moawad, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther King, the assassin Sirhan Sirhan, John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and the list goes on. But David E. Thomas dealt the final death blow came when he found the saying "The code is bogus" 60 times in the book of Genesis."

I've been trying to write a program to do that with any given (English) text. It seemed like a lot of fun. It also struck me as an interesting kind of divination. I'll post it here if I ever get it done.

 

[Vylo]

Hehe, my comment wasn't meant to belittle humble's, just incase anyone inferred that. If more people focused on that aspect of christianity, instead of hairbrained ideas of stringing together words in the bible to predict things that already happened, I think everyone would be a bit better off.

 

[Yitzchak]

This sounds like an interesting subject. I can see why they would sell a lot of books about it. My question is what good is the code if a person doesn't know how to read it? I mean isn't there room for some doubt about the conclusions reached? I'm speaking of course about future events and not events which have already taken place.
What would be really impressive would be for the author to predict events over the next three before they happen.

 

[HisEagle]

Why is this thread in News and Current Events?

 

[akasmom]

this is a dangerous little thing they've put together - I ran across a website where some woman was putting in the names of well known preachers and coming up with words like fraud, scandal, evil, etc. but put in her own name and of course came up with anointed, good, etc. Great way to dupe the simple minded...

 

[Petunia]

this is a dangerous little thing they've put together - I ran across a website where some woman was putting in the names of well known preachers and coming up with words like fraud, scandal, evil, etc. but put in her own name and of course came up with anointed, good, etc. Great way to dupe the simple minded

It's all a bunch of "hocus pocus".. if you ask me!
Seriously though.. I read a couple of books on the topic a couple of years ago. Christian, Jewish and secular authors. I wasn't impressed. Sounds too much like superstition to me. I love puzzles and cryptograms.. but when has God ever used them with His people?? I've seen the television movies produced by TBN on the matter. It's good fiction television. But I personally don't believe it's credible.

 

[kermit]

While I find the theory interesting I think it's all bunk. There are three reasons why I feel this way.

1) It lessens the message of the Bible. The Bible Code means that the text of the Bible wasn't in place to teach us about God and salvation, but to predict the future.

2) It would mean that God is deceitful. He told the Bible is one thing when it's really something else

3) Why would it be delivered thousands of years before we could determine the code? It makes no sense.

 

[Norseman]

While I find the theory interesting I think it's all bunk. There are three reasons why I feel this way.

1) It lessens the message of the Bible. The Bible Code means that the text of the Bible wasn't in place to teach us about God and salvation, but to predict the future.

2) It would mean that God is deceitful. He told the Bible is one thing when it's really something else

3) Why would it be delivered thousands of years before we could determine the code? It makes no sense.

3 is very good. There's no sense warning people with a message they couldn't possibly read yet.