Do you believe the Bible Code?

Question

Just wondered what peoples views are on this

For those who arn't sure what this is, this is an explaination.

http://www.biblecodedigest.com/page.php/24

Answer 1

As an atheist, I don't exactly believe in the Bible Code, but I do find it absolutely fascinating. Granted, the skip-code principle has been used to find meaningful names in a whole range of other books, with Moby Dick being the most publicised, but there was something in the second Bible Code book that appealed to me. Something about the book being read in a number of 'dimensions' depending on the level of the technology of the reader. First of all, let's not forget the most obvious thing - the Bible (or rather, as I remember it, the Torah, cos it's supposed to only be the first handful of books, isn't it?) is written in a human language, telling stories of history and drawing knowledge from that - so that's the level of the technology of its original students - writing and language. Then there was Newton, who thought he was onto something in terms of decoding a pattern in the books. The technology of advanced mathematics. Now, where Drosnin says the code is readable by computer, perhaps that's the level of technology to decode it at the current level. He went on to speculate that further technological developments might enable the books to be read in a more fully understandable way through the technology of temporal mechanics - if, after all, this is the genuine work of the universe's creator, time and space are infinitely malleable in that creator's hands, and so perhaps there is more evolving for us to do before a new level of relevance can be found in it.

I don't know. I think if he'd written it as a fiction, Drosnin would have left Dan Brown in the dust. It's a great and tempting thought - the ultimate multi-dimensional puzzle revealing the ultimate secret - and it makes a fantastic dramatic story. But is it true? I'm not convinced.

Answer 2

I have a powerful belief in God and the afterlife. I also believe that we live several lives on this earth in order to learn more and more, although what for I am not sure. Perhaps the Buddhist idea of karma - the life you lead determines whether you move up or down a strata in heaven, the highest level being Nirvana - is an accurate assessment of the situation.
Despite all this, I have great trouble with the bible. It seems to me to be a massive mixture of fact and fantasy, which is very confusing and unsettling to my mind. God is alleged to have created the world and everything in it in seven days. How can anybody say that for sure - only God himself was there when he started this magnificent creation, and he didn't write anything. Why didn't Jesus write anything? All the New Testament is written by other people long after his death, and then it was assembled by choosing which of many documents were around at the time by a committee a couple of hundred years later. At the age of 73 I am aware that my body is wearing out. It is only designed to last for 70 or maybe 100 years. How can I believe that people in the Old Testament lived for 600 years?
I am sure that millions of people in the world today have similar questions and doubts in their minds - why else do only 1% of the people of Britain go to church regularly when 70% believe in God?

Answer 3

at the same time as i detect the perception of a so pronounced as Bible code exciting, it has thus far in hardship-free words shown issues which have already occurred. the Bible itself is so finished and wealthy at the same time as examine and studied regularly why search for for hidden codes. maximum meant people of the note do not understand the promptly ahead Bible. So why hardship with hunting for some hidden code utilising ELS or the different type of code translation. extremely of a Code breaking software get a stunning good Hebrew & Greek Lexicon.

Answer 4

I'm fascinated by numerology. I strongly believe that numbers reflect certain aptitudes and character tendencies, as an integral part of the cosmic plan. Each letter has a numeric value that provides a related cosmic vibration. The sum of the numbers in your birth date and the sum of value derived from the letters in the name provide an interrelation of vibrations. These numbers show a great deal about character, purpose in life, what motivates, and where talents may lie.

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Answer 5

I do absoluteley. i read the books a couple of years ago, pretty hair raising stuff and some of it hard to believe but it depends how open minded the individual is. The Bible Code part 2 was more up to date and certainly an eye opener. i think the government believe it and are taking necessary actions already. And i truely believe the middle east is gonna be the cause of most future world problems!! it's obvious with the way they are, suicide bombing and hiding bin laden etc etc...hope they find the obelisks soon!

Good question by the way...

Answer 6

No, primarily because the same can be done with any large text.

"The primary objection advanced against Bible codes of the Drosnin variety is that information theory does not prohibit noise from appearing to be sometimes meaningful. Thus, similar patterns can be found in books other than the Bible. Although the probability of an ELS in a random place being a meaningful word is small, there are so many possible starting points and skip patterns that many such words are completely expected to appear.

Responding to an explicit challenge from Drosnin, who claimed that other texts such as Moby Dick could not yield ELS, Australian mathematician Brendan McKay found many ELS letter arrays in Moby Dick that relate to modern events, including the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He also found a code relating to the Rabin assassination, containing the assassin's first and last name and the university he attended, as well as the motive ("Oslo", relating to the Oslo accords.) [2]

Other people, such as US physicist Dave Thomas, found other examples in many texts. In addition, Drosnin had used the flexibility of Hebrew orthography to his advantage, freely mixing classic (no vowels, Y and W strictly consonant) and modern (Y and W used to indicate i and u vowels) modes, as well as variances in spelling of K and T, to reach the desired meaning. In his television series John Safran vs God, Australian television personality John Safran worked successfully with McKay to look for evidence of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York in the lyrics of Vanilla Ice's repertoire. Additionally, the known coded references in Bible texts, as for instance the famous Number of the Beast, do not use the Bible code technique. And, the influence and consequences of scribal errors (eg, misspellings, additions, deletions, misreadings, ...) are hard to account for in the context of a Bible coded message left secretly in the text."

Answer 7

Well I don't guess it matters that its been refuted utterly and the critics proved it was rubbish by doing the exact same thing with Moby Dick.

Also because of the way Hebrew is written extra consonants were inserted which made it easier to find what they wanted to find.

Simon Singh sums it up succinctly in his 'the codebook' a wonderful read for many other reasons.

Answer 8

Yes, there seems to be more than a few dimensions of the Bible and shows that God is very creative in communicating His Word especially to the skeptics of this generation..

Answer 9

Undecided but if you enjoy this subject, read "The Signature of God" by Grant Jeffrey. In it he gives details of this shows how names such as Timothy McVay and Hitler are located in the bible when you decipher the various codes.

Answer 10

This one is a tough one, as an agnostic my gut wants to say no, but there is a bunch of data supporting it. I am leaving this one as an unknown, until something significant can be pulled from it. Like the name of the next American Idol winner.