Scientists claim the Bible is written in code that predicts future events". Big Think . Retrieved June 22, 2022. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-12-23 20:48:59 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA175601 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Carlsbad, Calif. Donor The majority of scholarly opinion holds that, in the days of Moses, YHVH was pronounced 'Yah-Weigh'". Not to mention that we don't know which time was the Moses' time, there are no solid theories about how Moses spoke Hebrew... if he spoke Hebrew. We are not paying attention now to the very peculiar way to notate the pronounce. 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. 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.

And when there is a simple explanation... there are coincidences who bring us to another deep and hidden explanation. Find what you are looking for". biblecodedigest.com. Archived from the original on October 26, 2010 . Retrieved October 6, 2010.

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. 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. Evidence that the words and letters of the Hebrew Bible are not only carefully preserved but precisely arranged by God The Torah is a single, continuous string of 304,805 characters with no punctuation or vowels. (p99)

In God Code,antiquities expert Timothy P. Smith reveals his decades-long quest to understand the complex messages he discovered in an ancient Hebrew manuscript of the Bible. This painstaking search involves adventure and mystery, but instead of consulting ancient maps to find buried treasure, Smith relied on the data calculation power of modern technology. His quest shows how Scripture is more amazing than we ever dreamed—and that it may even reveal the future of generations living today. 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. Rips and Witztum and Yoav Rosenberg designed computer software for the ELS technique and subsequently found many examples. About 1985, they decided to carry out a formal test, and the "Great rabbis experiment" was born. This experiment tested the hypothesis that ELS's of the names of famous rabbinic personalities and their respective birth and death dates form a more compact arrangement than could be explained by chance. Their definition of "compact" was complex but, roughly, two ELSs were compactly arranged if they can be displayed together in a small window. When Rips et al. carried out the experiment, the data was measured and found to be statistically significant, supporting their hypothesis.

In the book’s foreword, Dr. Eugene Ulrich, chief editor of the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls and professor of Hebrew Scripture and Theology at University of Notre Dame, writes, “However one wishes to interpret the meaning and significance of the text, they may rest assured that the text on which Timothy Smith based his interpretations has almost certainly been there for a very long time, since before the birth of Christ.” Example of the ELS method showing an arrangement of the letters from Genesis 26:5–10 in a 21-column grid to derive the words "Bible" and "code".

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. Which brings me to perhaps the most troubling aspect of the Bible Codes, which is the nature of the religion they “prove.” Just as the Bible Codes myth relativizes the nonrelative, so it absolutizes the nonabsolute. If the Bible Codes are correct, then the Torah is unlike every other document on the face of the earth, and contains secret prophecies embedded within it that were intended to be discovered only now, in our age of computer science. This means that the Torah is absolutely supernatural, while the New Testament, Quran and Upanishads are not. And that means, in turn, that the Jews really are the chosen people in the unreconstructed sense: We alone possess Divine revelation, and the Torah is absolutely it. Smith’s globetrotting journey is the basis of a new two-hour special, also titled “God Code,” that will premiere Sunday, April 8 at 9 PM ET/PT on HISTORY. “This is not a scripted program, but a real rough and tumble quest for the world's greatest treasure,” says Smith. a b Stenger, Victor J. (2009). Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe. Prometheus Books. p.230. ISBN 978-1-61592-158-4. This article possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( October 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

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Sherman, R. Edwin, with Jacobi and Swaney. 2005. Bible Code Bombshell Green Forest, Ar.: New Leaf Press. 95–109 Smith has been assisted in his research by a cadre of eminentscientists and scholars from around the world who have shared their expertise to help unravel the phenomenon of his discoveries in the most ancient Biblical texts. One intriguing source of patterns that has emerged thanks to our development of computers is the Bible. Among humanity’s oldest and arguably most influential pieces of writing, the Bible has been studied and analyzed phrase by phrase by countless scholars and devotees. But what computers have allowed us to do, thanks to the work of Israeli mathematicians, is to see that the ancient text may be not only an intricately-weaved collection of spiritual stories and teachings but a code that speaks to the inner workings of history.