This was on the history channel yesterday by Jewish religious who study the torah on the computer.
2007-09-21 10:11:14 · 14 answers · asked by t_a_m_i_l 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The exact same "prophecy" was also located in a copy of Moby Dick when it was put into the same PC program...
Its called PATTERN SEEKING. Its what humans do.
2007-09-21 10:19:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Speaking as a mathematician (I hold Bachelors and Masters degrees in mathematics), my professional opinion on "The Bible Code" is that it's BOGUS.
To put it as best as I can in layman's terms: if you're given certain numbers or something you can translate into numbers, and play with the math long enough, you can eventually get whatever values you're looking for.
The fact that you pick a name or phrase to search for, and then eventually get it by doing enough calculations on the Bible, proves absolutely nothing. You can get the same results with any book, like Moby Dick (which some students DID do). The Bible Code presents an algorithm that makes the results look too organized to be coincidental, but when you consider the size of the book you're searching and the freedoms to adjust the parameters, it allows for anything.
Ever notice that the "amazing" things "found" with the Bible Code are only things that were looked for after-the-fact? If this is supposed to be a prophetic device, then where are the predictions of the people and places we should see in next year's headlines?
2007-09-21 17:22:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Basically, I think it is a good way for the author to make money. The "bible code" has been proven to exist in any large book including Moby Dick and War and Peace. I thought at first that there might be something to it until I looked into the methodology, they skip thousands of characters to try to find related words and very the length of the skip to find what they want, this means you could find anything you're looking for. To cap it off, it has never predicted anything just events that are in the past, which means that your only seeing what you want to see, not what really is.
To add to the mathematician above, I'm a Computer Science guy with years of math and data analysis, and I agree, totally bogus.
2007-09-21 17:23:38 · answer #3 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Those who want more info - google Bible Code, interesting book. I find it overwhelming; the claims are so outrageous but the proof is very reasonable. Its either the biggest discovery ever or a bunch of stupid people reading too much into a coincidence.
2007-09-21 17:23:27 · answer #4 · answered by davster 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, the Bible was not written in code, nor does it contain some kind of secret messages from God in a hidden code. God's command to the prophet Habakkuk could be applied to every book of the Bible: "Write down the revelation and make it plain" (Habakkuk 2:2).
After all, why did God give His Word, the Bible, to us? He gave it for one reason: so we could understand it. Its truth is so profound that even the most brilliant scholar will never exhaust its meaning—and yet its message is so simple that a child can understand it. God doesn't hide Himself from us; He wants us to know Him and His love. Why, then, would He conceal any part of His truth from us? He wouldn't—and He hasn't.
God didn't make the Bible impossible to understand; the problem is that our hearts and minds are closed. Jesus' rebuke to those who refused to believe what He was telling them could be applied to many today: "Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say" (John 8:43). May this not be true of you.
Instead, ask God to give you a hunger for His Word, and to help you understand it. Then begin reading it for yourself (perhaps starting with one of the Gospels, which tell us about Christ). The psalmist's words can become yours: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path" (Psalm 119:105).
2007-09-21 17:31:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Take any text of comparable length in a language that doesn't explicitly write its vowels and you'd be able to come up with any sort of silly prediction. You might as well predict the next five Lombardi Trophy winners with the Arabic-language documentation for Microsoft Word.
2007-09-21 17:18:12 · answer #6 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure in any novel, you could string words together to make sentences, especially when you are "looking" for things that have already happened. Just go threw any page of any novel and pick out letters, and you could make a sentence...
2007-09-21 17:26:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
We also have a code in the koran and it was publish long time ago. but it was a sad event and only inocent died i guess it is the end of the world
2007-09-21 19:05:53 · answer #8 · answered by Pet Expert 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you can find anything you want to with the "Bible Code". I betcha I can come up with a way to find "Mr. Steak-on-a-Stick stabbed my pony in the snout last Tuesday", if I wanted to.
2007-09-21 17:21:09 · answer #9 · answered by Brandon's been a dirty Hore 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jews don't believe in the messiah. I haven't seen it but it sounds like a way to promote war against islam by getting christians to believe that they are doing gods wishes.
we already have a religious war in the middle east. the west is on a crusade. perhaps the jews just want to make sure it continues
2007-09-21 17:19:01 · answer #10 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋