Tigay, Jeffrey H. (October 13, 1999). "The Bible "Codes": A Textual Perspective". Sas.upenn.edu. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010 . Retrieved May 2, 2010. The Bible code ( Hebrew: הצופן התנ"כי, hatzofen hatanachi), also known as the Torah code, is a purported set of encoded words within a Hebrew text of the Torah that, according to proponents, has predicted significant historical events. The statistical likelihood of the Bible code arising by chance has been thoroughly researched, and it is now widely considered to be statistically insignificant, as similar phenomena can be observed in any sufficiently lengthy text. [1] Although Bible codes have been postulated and studied for centuries, the subject has been popularized in modern times by Michael Drosnin's book The Bible Code and the movie The Omega Code. Population statistics from the 2000 are believed to be the most accurate in history, indicating that we share our world with approximately 6.2 billion of our kind. Of that number, nearly 95 percent, or 5.9 billion people, believe in the existence of a higher power or Supreme Being of some description. More than half of those people refer to this power as 'God'. These and similar statistics suggest that the question of our day may be less about whether or not we believe that God exists, and more about precisely what such a presence means in our lives" (p.43).

By reductionist mathematics, I mean the following. Take, for example, the number 19. We can "reduce" that number to a single digit by the following process: 19 --> 1 + 9 = 10 --> 1 + 0 = 1. Thus 19 can be "reduced" to 1. Leaving aside the questionable legitimacy of the process as a foundation for the premise around the letters of God's name, this principle only works in base 10. Okay, yes, modern mathematics entirely uses base 10, but what about the possibility of base 5 or base 7 or base 3 - which give a different answer to the "reduced" value of 19. Concerning Witztum's response to our article "Codes in War and Peace – a reply to Doron Witztum" ". Cs.anu.edu.au. June 15, 2001 . Retrieved May 2, 2010. The book that inspired the major History Channel special God Codeshows there is more to the Bible than meets the eye—messages from God hidden for ages, now revealed by modern computer technology. Although the example shown uses English texts, Bible codes proponents usually use a Hebrew Bible text. Most Jewish proponents use only the Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy), as it is believed to have been revealed directly to Moses.Recently, I had the pleasure of teaching at Limmud FSU (Former Soviet Union), the version of the wildly successful international learning conference geared toward Russian-speaking Jews. Held at a hotel outside Princeton University, the conference’s theme was science, with an emphasis on Albert Einstein, and the cultural and political sessions reflected the generally rational, secular tastes of the target population. Of the many ways that we may define 'science' today, the American Heritage Dictionary suggests that 'any methodological, activity, discipline or study' is a science. Through this widely accepted definition..." (p. 95). It is hard to say what's the quality of the American Heritage for defining science upon it (not to mention that this is not its main definition, but the second one ( http://dictionary.reference.com/brows...)), but clearly that definition of science as everything is not a widely accepted one. What would it mean to discover an ancient language—a literal message—hidden within the DNA of life itself? What we once believed of our past is about to change. Proponents claim that such ELS extensions that form phrases or sentences have statistical significance, maintaining that the longer the extended ELS, the less likely it is to be the result of chance. [9] Critics reply, as in the Skeptical Inquirer deconstruction of 1997, [10] that the longer ELS is in fact effectively nothing more than further increased number of permutations, employing a massive application of the look-elsewhere effect.

Since so much of the analysis depends on the underlying assumption of base 10 (which to me is a cultural choice, not an innately obvious one across the long historical sweep of mathematics - after all, the Babylonians would have instinctively gone for 6 or 60), I found myself constantly struggling with the ideas. An encrypted code in Genesis, in the oldest known Hebrew text of the Old Testament, that predicted the birth and resurrection of Jesus. Analysis of the "Gans" Committee Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 25, 2006 . Retrieved May 2, 2010. In the companion History Channel series, the author travels across continents in search of artifacts missing since Bible times—clues to their location revealed in God Code.The author really stretched the science to get the result he wanted. I kept reading through a half of it mainly because I've always wondered about the Kabbalah. Eventually I just could not take any more of it. It's so futile, two weeks later it's as if I did not read it at all. There's no logic to hold on to, it's true leap of faith.

Evidence that the words and letters of the Hebrew Bible are not only carefully preserved but precisely arranged by God So Jesus is teaching, and he's on the Mount of Olives, and he's trying to get the children to understand what their Father's like, and then he says this. Go to Matthew 7:24-29 and I'll close with this. This is good. Matthew 7:24-29. See, the reason this is good is because we got a generation now who has been raised on popular preaching. And popular preaching needs crowd reaction, so it always has a happy ending. Every week, they find a different way to tell you everything's gonna be all right. And we get addicted to coming to church so that they can tell us. And you've gotta find a new way to say it, but if you take all your sermons and put them in a bag, most of 'em is, "Everything's gonna be all right". International Conference on Pattern Recognition". 1. August 8, 2006: i–iii. doi: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.10– via IEEE Xplore. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help)Scientists claim the Bible is written in code that predicts future events". Big Think . Retrieved June 22, 2022. Thomas, Dave (November 1, 1997). "Hidden Messages and The Bible Code". Skeptical Inquirer. CSICOP . Retrieved April 19, 2015.

Lccn 2003015712 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL8369312M Openlibrary_edition Jewish culture has a long tradition of interpretation, annotation, and commentary regarding the Bible, leading to both exegesis and eisegesis (drawing meaning from and imposing meaning on the texts). The Bible code can be viewed as a part of this tradition, albeit one of the more controversial parts. Throughout history, many Jewish, and later Christian, scholars have attempted to find hidden or coded messages within the Bible's text, notably including Isaac Newton. [ citation needed] Bible Code Pictograms Bible Codes that form images that predict the future". bible-codes.org . Retrieved October 6, 2010.

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Brilliant and insightful—I urge all of you to embrace the message of The God Code. I see Gregg Braden as one of our great visionaries.” J. Scott Duvall, J. Daniel Hays, 2012, Grasping God's Word: A Hands-On Approach to Reading, Interpreting, and Applying the Bible, p. 337. "The scholarly rebuttals to Bible codes have been devastating. These rebuttals have provided strong evidence that there is nothing mystical or divine about ELS. The arguments leveled against this method of finding secret messages fall into two basic categories: that relating to probability, and that relating to textual variations ... Textual variations: Another flaw in the ELS approach is that its proponents seem unaware of variations in the text of the Old Testament ..." urn:lcp:godcode00greg:epub:80209053-e8b6-45b2-b94f-f083eae7aebe Foldoutcount 0 Identifier godcode00greg Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9f48rj2z Isbn 1401902995 The aim of this false probability is support the assumption that YHVG (the allegedly Hebraic letters for 'humanity'), are an equivalent for hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon. But following the Cabbala's method proposed by Braden, there are not 22 letters playing this game, but ten: "probability" is dropped dramatically, even more when we know that it is not possible repeat any letter and that the position of these letters is irrelevant. The equivalence element-number is based on the atomic mass, for he considers it "of the 17 characteristics that define [the elements:] only one matches precisely with the hidden number values of the Hebrew language" (p. 112). There are no more reasons for taking into account the atomic mass apart precisely that this is the only what matches. But even this is not true: the atomic mass for hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and carbon are 1.0, 14.0, 15.9, and 12.0, respectively. 14 is transformed in 5 (1+4), 12 is transformed in 3 (1+2), 1.0 is transformed in 10 (no reason for that, apart that 1 doesn't match Braden's theory) and 15.9 is transformed first in 15 (not in 16, as expected) and then in 6 (1+5). This should be enough to dismount the main purpose for the book. The name of the humanity is a combination of four elements, like, for instance, B-N-O-C or Zr-S-Sm-K. There are actually hundreds of those possible combinations, but not the Braden's one.