Bible Codes, Discuss.

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According to religious experts, nobody has a letter-by-letter original of the bible. Even the oldest manuscripts have slight variations. Also, from my research, the original Torah didn't have any vowels, therefore a string of seemingly allusive letters is open for many different inerpretations.

Anyway, the bible codes are a mere coincidence. They've been found in other books as well, and I've provided pictures to them. I believed 6 months ago, as I do now, that the bible codes are a hoax. This isn't the first time that such chimerical codes have been derived from holy scripture either. The early Hebrews had developed a code known as Gematria, so this type of fanciful imagination is not to be unexpected; but that does not keep it from being merely coincidential.

Drosnin has told us that the Bible codes have been correctly able to postdict (new word) many modern historical events. I've heard that he correctly figured the evil of Hitler, the production of Hamlet, the death of Rabin, and the discovery of the comet named Swift, along with plenty of other stuff; some named by KA above. He also predicted that the comet would collide with the Earth in 2006. So if that doesn't happen, we should ignore the Bible codes completely, right? Wrong! Drosnin states that the Bible codes can not be used to correctly make predictions about the future. He says that the Bible code uncovers probablities and not definites. How convenient.

In the mathematical world and scientific world, there is almost universal denial of these codes. Rips, the man credited with discovering the code, claims that any prediction these codes make are merely coincidence. Furthermore, Dave Thomas has applied this code to the book War and Peace and has been able to correctly postdict significant events, as has Brendan Mckay when he applied these codes to Moby Dick. Statistically, these codes could be applied to just about any piece of literature, and such "codes" could be found. I provided images in the other thread, if you haven't already seen them.

In fact, Tolstoy even favored the Chicago Bull, and what do you know, Michael Jordan, in War and Peace. Dave Thomas released his report two months before the Bulls won their championship by using the code in the book.



Coincidence or prophecy? You decide.