Bible Code, are you familiar with this, and if so what are your views?
By nowment
@nowment (1757)
United States
June 3, 2007 11:57am CST
There are those who claim that because the codes are telling of the events after they have happened, then they are not valid. There is one who claims that similiar research has been done with Moby Dick, and so invalidates the Bible Code. The counter claim that the person who did the research with Moby Dick, did not follow the same rules that those who have been the strongest proponants of the Bible Code use.
I personal am leaving the topic open for me. There seems to be some things that back these claim, though the skeptic in me also seems to feel that it is something that could be manipulated, to fit circumstances.
To many predictions whether they be Nostradamus, Bible Code or some other form seem to be after the fact or so open to interpretation that they could have more than one meaning.
At the same time I do think predictions can be made. The validity of the Bible Code for me is something I do not know enough about.
Anyone have opinions? Has anyone looked into this, done any real research on this topic?
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@porkrind333 (288)
• United States
30 Jul 07
The name of that monk escapes me. However he did decode everything by hand up until the start of WW2 when he was interned in a concentration camp. He did not pick it back up until the mid 1950s. Being a Catholic Monk I am sure the church shut him down once he started to get noticed.
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@nowment (1757)
• United States
2 Aug 07
I also can't remember the name of the Monk, and agree that it is likely that Church found a way to keep it all quiet, in fact few took any notice of what he had done until the more modern times with the people that are working on the Bible Code now.
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@porkrind333 (288)
• United States
2 Aug 07
The incredibly funny thing about Bible Codes and just about any other 'High' conspiracy theory is the perfect 20/20 hindsight the of the investigators.
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@morgandrake (2136)
• United States
5 Jun 07
It is an interesting theory, but why would God insert a code into the Bible that could only be solved by computers? I mistrust any code that has longer than a ten step to it. Of course, part of this is me speaking as a student of Kabbalah--one of the purposes of Kabbalah is to allow us to get to know the mind of God better, so how does the Code do this? And some of the "revealed code" seems so outrageous--like in Bible Code II: The Countdown--one author puts forth the theory of the encoding being done not by God, but by an ancient astronaut instead.
At this point in time, I am very skeptical of the whole code theory.
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@nowment (1757)
• United States
30 Jul 07
Well I learned something new, I did not realize that the purpose of learning the Bible, was to learn the mind of God, I am admitedly not a student of the Kabbalah or of the bible though I have tried to find those who say they do bible study only to realize over and over again they are groups putting out their own doctrine and dogma, with out studying the bible.
I do have to wonder though what is the Kabbalah, some say it is the first five books of the bible but I thought that the Torah was the first five books of the bible and that the Kabbalah was a spiritual teaching. I ask because you equate the Kabbalah at least how it is phrased seems to me that you are saying that the Kabbalah is the bible.
I hadn't read Bible Code II didn't know that it was an ancient astronaut, I had heard someone say the reason we can't find things in advance is because God keeps changing things putting them in and taking them out to match history, I personally can't see how the Bible itself is not changing, the text in the bible is not changing so the key phrases are either there or they are not.
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
30 Mar 08
I chanced upon this one time with a friend who was reading a book titled bible code. she said that there are codes in the bible that foretold the future.. some have happened already too. I guess it can be authenticated with further study. However, it does need a lot of time and effort to decode, besides the original transcript (most, not all) have already been lost to fires, etc.)
It should be legitimate if we are the decode the actual scriptures.
@nowment (1757)
• United States
30 Apr 08
Yes from what I understand they found the code in the first books of the bible, which are from the original Hebrew and that the code is not done using english but rather the original Hebrew. So no doubt it would take a very long time.
I also had heard some where prior to the bible code that is around now, this was years ago before the book came out and anyone knew these people were working on this, a report of a Monk, from one of the Eastern European countries who did in fact find this bible code,
It is amazing that it is done now with mathematics and computer, but how amazing is it that it had been done in the 30's by a Monk working it all out by hand?
@mehale (2200)
• United States
3 Jun 07
I don't know enough about the Bible Code to know for sure if it is true or false, but I do believe that it could be a very real possibility. We don't know that information was not coded into or hidden in the bible when it was written. This could easily have been a way to hide information from future generations until they were ready for it. And then again, maybe we weren't ment to understand.
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@nowment (1757)
• United States
30 Jul 07
At this point it is interesting, but there are for me still many questions.
One thing that I have heard by some is that we are not meant to understand or know something, but if we can ask the question then surely we can get the answer.
If a mind is intelligent enough to realize there is a question to be asked, then it should be able to get the answer. Hopefully lol
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