What do you think of the Bible Code?

Question

not Da vinci code nonsense the bible code were Jewish scholars count the words of the bible to predict history?

Steve and J P have very good points, thanks

But God warned against looking for hidden meanings in His Word, and this definitely qualifies. Don't put a lot of stock into these things. ..good point.
so is: why didn't they predict 9/11, good point also.

Answer 1

Very dangerous stuff. I think you can find anything you want anywhere you look. I daresay that the same thing MIGHT be accomplished with any book, if you put it in the right language, and look for some obscure way to look at it. Possible? Yes. But God warned against looking for hidden meanings in His Word, and this definitely qualifies. Don't put a lot of stock into these things.

Answer 2

I studied it in some depth.

Then, I decided to try an experiment. I found out what the letter occurance rates were for the letters of the English alphabet, and wrote a program to spit out large amounts of random letters in the same proportions (so 'e' was really common, 'z' not so common, etc...)

I then put these large files into a Bible Code program.

I was able to find very detailed matrixes describing past and current events and potentially future events.

If the effect can occur in random letters, it's not a valid effect.

Answer 3

I bought one of the bible code software for PC's back before the election between bush and gore. When the hanging chad issue arose and gore was trying to steal the election I did a search in my bible code program to see if it could predict the winner. I typed in several key words and began the search........I had a cluster form with the key words, election, bush, and victory. I knew then bush would be declared the winner and I went around declaring him the winner and was laughed to scorn by the liberals

Answer 4

Actually, what Jewish Scholars use is Kaballah. That's different than the Bible Code.

The Bible Code was based on equidistant letter spacing, and if you spent enoug time, you could find strange things in many different books. It all depends on the arrangement of the letters. If you used a monospace font for War and Peace, you could find words in many arrangements, and I would bet that in a book the size of the Bible, you would find a similar number of coincidences.

It's mathematical tom-foolerey.

Answer 5

I think they are wasting their time trying to predict the future. They should focus on the present and make every day count. We are only given a small amount of time to demonstrate our abilities and help others. If God wanted us to know the future, He'd have written the exact dates and not stated, "no one knows when, in the blink of an eye".

Answer 6

Garbage. Use the same technique with the Wizard of Oz to predict the life story of Michael Jackson, it'll be approximately as effective.

Answer 7

I'm not sure about it, but I'm not saying it isn't possible. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said, "[it] predicts history." Why don't they ever predict future events? I mean we have all the names of key world figures, etc. After the fact "predictions" mean next to nothing.

Answer 8

I read The Bible Code a few months ago and found it to be quite interesting.

Answer 9

Total baloney -- a complete waste of time. For one thing, the oldest texts differ, and so no consistent word count can be had -- even if it meant something, which it doesn't.

Answer 10

they reworded the stories in the bible and left things out and added there own things so any code would be from the one who edited the original text not from the word of your god