Is there a hidden code in the Bible? Part 2 of 2

The book Bible Code II:

The author Michael Drosnin writes about our last years on earth: the Countdown starts with 9/11 and counts down to Armageddon! The release of this book has, understandably, caused worldwide controversy. But this is not the only book that claim the existence of a code in the original Hebrew form of the Torah.

Michael Drosnin is, however, the author who claims that information contained in the code has predicted important world events; the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin being the most well-known. Indeed, hundreds of details concerning major world events, including the Holocaust and both Word Wars, have been found using the code.

Bible Codes Refutation

The only paper published in a refereed scientific journal that claims to find evidence for the reality of the Bible Codes is the paper Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis, by Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips, and Yoav Rosenberg (WRR), Statistical Science, Vol. 9 (1994) 429-438. After reviewed by four senior statisticians chosen by the journal, Statistical Science, it was published a thorough rebuttal: Vol. 14 (1999) 150-173.

Photo. A Rabbiner walking down a street in Jerusalem. Will the Third Wold War start here?

Did the Rabbiners write the original Hebrew part of the old Bible? And did they insert a secret code to warn about the future?

Hidden Bible books? Can more books related to the Bible be found elsewhere to make so the history and future could be better understood?

The new paper is Solving the Bible Code Puzzle, by Brendan McKay, Dror Bar-Natan, Maya Bar-Hillel, and Gil Kalai. According to these scientists: "A paper of Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg in this journal in 1994 made the extraordinary claim that the Hebrew text of the Book of Genesis encodes events which did not occur until millennia after the text was written. In reply, we argue that Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg's case is fatally defective, indeed that their result merely reflects on the choices made in designing their experiment and collecting the data for it. We present extensive evidence in support of that conclusion. We also report on many new experiments of our own, all of which failed to detect the alleged phenomenon".

Their conclusion was obvious: The solution to the puzzle lies in considering, not fitting of the tests to the data, but fitting of the data to the tests! (read the complete report by clicking on the links below).

Photo. Tel Aviv in Isreal. Happy beach life with high modern buildings in the background.

Many important decisions about the future are taken here. Can it be foreseen by cracking codes in the bible? Can the today`s unstable situation in Middle East be improved understanding the Bible in another way?

The book "The Bible Code" by Michael Drosnin has been the most successful mass-market book about the Torah Codes. But as also other scientists are agree about that all semblance of scientific method is missing, and all of the important codes proponents have disowned him. By repeated examples, they proved that Drosnin did not find anything that can't be found in any book, even in English.

It`s known from the history that people read and interpret the Bible just as they want. They understand and use the words to support their own interest for power and buisness. It`s the same case here?

Is the Bible not a book, but a computer program? It's the so called "hidden codes" God's fingerprints? If it's true about the codes in the bible, can it predict our future? And can we based on the information adjust our behaviour so we can avoid big disasters? One thing is absolute truth: many people are incredible good at reading between the lines, and their fantasy are unlimited! For the most sceptical people to the so called Bible codes, they will consider all books supporting this theory as a game you can get money out from. Are the Bible codes really something we should take seriously at all?

Stein Morten Lund, 12 April 2004

Additional information

Sources:

Torah Codes website: people behind this web site examine the Bible Codes (also called Torah Codes) from the point of view of the mathematicians and other experts who have examined them critically. Click on the links for more detailed information:

http://www.thei.aust.com/torah/codehome.html

http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/dilugim/torah.html

The Bible Code Digest: www.biblecodedigest.com

About the book Bible Code II:

The author Michael Drosnin writes about our last years on earth: the Countdown starts with 9/11 and counts down to Armageddon. For 3000 years a code in the Bible remained hidden. Now it has been unlocked by computer, and it reveals events that happened thousands of years after the Bible was written. Often world-shaking events are predicted in advance, and then happen exactly as foretold. Do we really have only years to survive? Or can the Bible code help save our world? Can we use it to change our future? The book is highly debated and reviewed in major publications worldwide. It raises a vital question: does the code describe an inevitable future, or a series of possible futures whose ultimate outcome we can still decide?

Jerusalem:

One of the most holy places in the world: Jews, Muslims and Christians hold Jerusalem as sacred. Could the next World War starts here? This city and area is already very unstable.

About the Bible:
The word Bible means "books of books." Within the Bible there are 66 different books, 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. The Bible was written between 1500 B.C. and 100 A.D. by approximately 40 different authors on 3 different continents (Africa, Asia, and Europe).

The Bible, or Word of God, has been historically proven so that there is no doubt of its authenticity. The Bible covers history, prophecy (fulfilled and unfulfilled), poetry, exhortation and theology. It also covers several different topics, such as creation, the triune God or Trinity, the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the second coming of Christ.