the " the Bible code" do you believe in it?

Question

how many of have watched the documentary about this. They said that they found out that the fall of the twin tower was coded in the bible and so as what will happen in 2012. It says that there will be an armagedon.

Answer 1

I read the original Bible Code book. It's a bunch of hooey, and I'm a Christian. You can find all types of codes in books like Moby Dick (and yes, it has been done). What's more, that's a language with vowels. Hebrew had none (well, matres lectiones, which don't count, being more semi-vowels). So, a single string of letters could be a number of things. You need only supply the vowels you want. The Bible code, thus, lets people use a method that works on any book, but works better still on Hebrew, because it lacks vowels.

Another evidence that it doesn't work is that even the Masoretic Text hasn't been preserved without change. If it is so much as a letter off, it can throw off that whole code, and the Masoretic Text isn't that fine-tuned. What's more, it was standardized a thousand years ago, which standardized a version of the Hebrew Bible from a thousand years before that, which selected one particular line of texts out of several. The LXX, the Bible chosen by the Apostles and believed by Early Christians to be the inspired text (e.g. II Tim. 3.16), read quite differently in places. Matthew is the oddball, and he quotes a version that is neither the LXX nor the MT. There is also the Samaritan Pentateuch, which outside of its changes regarding worship, agrees more with the LXX than the MT. There is evidence of still more versions.

Since the Hebrew Bible has changed (even if only a letter in places), then the Bible Code simply cannot work. It requires a *perfect* edition, identical with the originals. Since this doesn't exist, it lacks a prerequisite to working fully. The Bible code is a hoax designed to sell books, and you shouldn't waste your time on it. The Holy Scripture is too important for men to use as a marketing gimmick and a crystal ball.

Answer 2

The entire Bible is a mystery unveiling in words and numbers. All this number idea, which has been around for a long time, should do for you is give you an indication how tightly Scripture, in the original language, is tied together.

The question now becomes: Can they read it? And the answer is no. I recall not many years ago when the founder of Trinity Broadcasting, and his wife, were saying they found their names along with TBN in the Bible. I don't know if they were making use of the same system you are speaking of.

Regarding the Twin Towers, what happened there spells out what will transpire for America shortly and one does not need a number system to see it or find it.

I believe that the Bible is coded; but I think the code you speak of is just another distraction from the truth.

Answer 3

I saw a web site about it & searched it out about so called future predictions. We were suppose to have world war 3 last year.

Of course World war 3 could have happened but Christians are praying for peace. (There is an international war against Islamic terrorism. Because they are self righteous & killing innocent people in different countries.) And that President Bush is the Antichrist, etc. So. I prayed about it and found it to be false.

It is true that the Hebrew words have no vowels. So you can go every 3 letters & get a message. Also, when you put the boring lineage names into a sentence, you have another prophetic message. So there is a certain amount of bible codes. But you could play with the Torah a lot & come up with a bunch of different stuff. And one Hebrew letter can have a meaning to it.

The web site I looked up, was false & the Holy Spirit confirmed it false in my spiritman.

Answer 4

Most of this depends on knowing what to look for.

They have also found the 'War and Peace Code' and the 'Moby Dick Code'

Get a big enough book and you will find 'meaningful' messages in exactly the same way the bible coders do.


There is an awful lot of variations in how they decode the codes. If it was more consistent I would be less skeptical.
But the fact is that they need computers to troll though the thousands of versions that produce utter jibberish to find the ones that produces meaningful text, and then they ponder over those until they can spin the words to approximately tie in to real events.

Like Nostradamus, if you produce cryptic and vauge sayings and you can fit a whole slew of events to them.

It is actually worse than Nostradamus, at least he wrote down his cryptic prophecies rather than needing a computer to try billions of different combinations to produce them.

Answer 5

... No thats some person with no life thinking he has found something by stringing random characters together. And the idea that the world will end in 2012 is very common. Dont take religious advice from the national geographic channel...

Answer 6

No I do not believe in it. It has been plainly proven to be false and meaningless. You can do the same thing with Tolstoy or any other book of the same length as the Bible. Even strong believers in the Bible who are mathematicians admit that this is false.

Answer 7

I read the book and it sounds fun but it was apparently don with other books as well. It is like a post-diction you can only find it after the fact.2012 is the recirculation of the Mayan calender it means nothing.

Answer 8

Pure garbage. Read the book for a few minutes and you will see. You can do the "code" using about any book. Probably the Swiss Family Robinson book tells about alien invasions.

Answer 9

Yes, I do. But I don't rely on it only like I do the Bible. The Bible is what I follow only.

Answer 10

No, they stretched things to get the results they wanted. You could do that with a Harry Potter book..