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Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Back in '97 I read "The Bible Code." It claimed researchers, with the aid of computers, had cracked a secret code written into the texts of the bible. Kind of like subliminal programming. I don't discount the possibility.
I do also remember it predicted the assassination of Benjamin Netanyahu. He was the Israeli Prime Minister at the time.
Originally posted by LeenBekkemaa
I do dismiss the possibility. The book itself is made 400 years after... and consists out of all kinds of old texts. Those texts weren't with eachother... they were made at different places... at different times... that's also why you see a real story in it...
Therefore that it looks like there is a code in it, is for myself just the confirmation that we have computers, computers which can search for words and then can draw lines between them...
The same happens to every book (yes I know that it is said that it only works for the Bible etc. but that's something I am really not going to buy) hundreds of thousands of books, and the bible looks just like them, a story that's what's it about, even written by menkind.
I think that the so-called biblecode does work for every book, it's just the work of computers.... that's my thought.
Originally posted by alternateheaven
There was a quote from the movie Pi that fits this topic
"If you look for a pattern long enough in a set of data, eventually all you will see is that pattern"
If you look for something long enough your brain starts discarding things that dont support your theory or concept, no matter how valid they are.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
The things of God are beyond the thoughts of men who walk the earth. The veil will drop one day.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
When the Bible Code, indeed said to be deciphered from the Old Testament, predicted that Netanyahu would be assassinated,
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Ah, touche'. Some would say non-belief in God is the ultimate stupid beyond belief. To each his own.
Originally posted by mikromarius
There are many other codes in the Bible too. Few of them needs computers to be solved, but some do.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Worry not, MCoy. As we used to say in the Army, the only dumb question is the one not asked. Always seek knowledge. Always seek wisdom.
Originally posted by Satyr
I disagree. You saw the movie, "A beautiful Mind", right?
Originally posted by Byrd
But researchers have found a whole set of "lying codes" in the bible code, that say things like "god is dead" and "god is satan."
Originally posted by MrJingles
The Bible was written in Latin originally wasnt it? Taking a Latin class at school Latin like most other foreign languages can be interpreted and translated in many different ways. If there was a code is likely in the most original bible around, otherwise these predictions are of human invention.
Originally posted by mikromarius
Originally posted by Satyr
I disagree. You saw the movie, "A beautiful Mind", right?
No, I didn't see that movie. You assume that everyone is as limited as yourself. That everyone needs to see a movie or read a secular work to understand the hidden things in God.
Originally posted by Satyr
According to the book, this code predicts major events such as the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin and comet SL9's collision with Jupiter. But is a comet impacting Jupiter really a "major event?" If not for the telescope, we wouldn't even have known about it, and aside from arousing everyone's curiosity - including mine, I confess I watched it in fascination through my own telescope - it had no effect at all on life on Earth. Yet, Drosnin found it several times. Or did he?
So, what kind of beer would Jesus drink?
Originally posted by Satyr
I'm not assuming anything. I'm implying that it's either delusional, or wishful thinking. I think you misunderstood. You need to see the movie. I won't spoil it for you, since you haven't seen it.
Originally posted by mikromarius
If you have a telescope, what would that say about what God has? And about a comet being absorbed by Jupiter, that's not a major astrolnomical event? How often does this happen in your world? I'd say the incident itself with all of it's preludium would be an enormous event.
Originally posted by Satyr
You might as well take scrabble pieces, throw them up in the air, and see what it spells when they land.
Originally posted by mikromarius
Originally posted by Satyr
You might as well take scrabble pieces, throw them up in the air, and see what it spells when they land.
Try doing that with faith once. It's quite interresting. The Urim and Tummim were so accurate they could tell the difference between colors and stones it says. These were only two lotts. What then when we have 22, 26 or 29?
Blessings,
Mikromarius