Are the bible code folks on dope?

Question

Just wondering how they come up with this bible code stuff that never happens, and even moreso, why people keep believing them.

Barely any of the stuff they predict ever happens, but it's amazing how they find it all, after the fact. lol

And Jesus M . . . ah, forget it. You would rather insult people than answer intelligently, which proves that it's you who is ignorant. Cheers!

Answer 1

Ever hear the saying that if you get enough monkeys randomly tapping away at typewriters and give them enough time, eventually they will type out one of Shakespeare's Sonnets? If you keep changing the way you group things together in a matrix of letters, you can come up with a different "hidden message" every time. That is the problem with the code people, they don't have a standard set of guidelines they use to analyze the sections they work with. If they go through using one method and nothing shows up they can use, they change the method and use a different technique for association and then they do come up with something. I can't think of any code writer or encryption that makes the decipherer change halfway through the decryption. Use this method for this part, then that method for the next, etc etc. Give me enough time and enough techniques and I will prove the earth is flat by what the code says.
As far as why some people believe, well, why do people believe there are alien artifacts and specimens at Area 51 or why their God is better than anyone else's God? Got an idea or thought, then someone somewhere will go along with it, even without real proof.

Answer 2

My best guess? People just like believing in things. I don't mean that as a knock against anyone's personal beliefs, but in general. People like to see signs in things, so when there's a sliver of correlation, or a convenient coincidence, it doesn't take that much faith to fit things together (especially when religion becomes involved).

This sort of thing just says Law of Fives to me. Let's take a look at wikipedia, which as we all know is the most credible source of information aside from the daily show.

Some bible code:

"[The Great Rabbis Experiment] tested the hypothesis that ELSs for the names of famous rabbis could be found closer to ELSs of their dates of birth and death than chance alone could explain. The definition of "close" was complex but, roughly, two ELSs are close if they can be displayed together in a small rectangle. The experiment succeeded in finding sequences which fit these definitions, and they were interpreted as indicating the phenomenon was real."

and some law of fives:

" The Law of Fives states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO 5.
The Law of Fives is never wrong. "
"The authors suggest that the real Law of Fives may be that everything can be related to the number five if you try hard enough. Sometimes the steps required may be highly convoluted."

So these people come up with it because they look for it, and in looking will find it. That it never happens will be waved away, counter arguments will be rebutted as faithless (mysterious ways!), and people keep believing them mostly because deep down they want to.

Answer 3

Actually, its somewhat simple. Almost all of human intelligence boils down to pattern recognition and adapting those patterns to new situations. These people are simply doing something they think is intelligent by looking for patterns, whether they exist or not. When attempting to force a pattern, there can be some interesting results, there can be some not so interesting results, and there can be meaningless results.

Answer 4

You mean that thing of taking the Bible in it's original language and write down every fiftieth letter? Or that there are certain prophesies hidden in the Bible if you look for it properly? Please. It's a load of junk. I think they were drugged up (and this is coming from a Christian) and out of there mind.

Answer 5

God hid a lot of codes in the Bible, ever read the book of Daniel?

Answer 6

If you mean the numerology stuff, no, there not on dope. They're just easily mislead by someone who tells them that they have secret knowledge concerning their own religion. They are incautious, not drugged (well, not all of them are drugged).

Jim

Answer 7

It's when you hear them explain how they came up with the code that you really wonder what they've been smoking.

Answer 8

You can say whatever you want to say about the bible but mind you, you are only displaying and acknowledging to the whole nation that you are ignorant about God and about the bible. It will inly show that you grew up on the mountains with big trees like the wild monkeys and wild beast to know nothing about life.
jtm

Answer 9

What codes?

Answer 10

It's just a theory---Blessings.