Cracking the Bible Code [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

The existence of the codes, as coded in the first 5 books of the Bible, is now being supported and clarified by scientists through the world. They are now coming to the conclusion that the Codes may be real.

To me the codes can only be a part of the Bible because God placed them there! Randomness is not a valid conclusion nor a viable result. The "Finger of God" wrote the codes just as he spoke to the scribes that recorded the biblical scriptures.

I recommend that ALL persons interested in a complete Bible Study, must also read the developing issues of the emerging Bible Codes to complete their total understanding of Bible scripture.

Satinover's book is an excellent start in the understanding of the newly emerging study of the Bible Codes.

The authors of all these types of books try to make it look like an extraordinary phenomenon that a computer could scan a Hebrew book of the Bible and find sequences of letters in close proximity that spell out major historic events (and therefore presumeably major future events as well). Let's look at the real odds:

First, the decoders give the computer a list of key words for a specific historic event. They make the list as large as they can dream up, but the computer only has to find two or three words from the list for it to be considered a phenomenal find. Second, the computer starts it search by scanning the Hebrew text, skipping every other letter. If it doesn't find a few matches to the key words in close proximity, it scans every third letter, then every fourth, going as high as it needs to go, up to skipping more than a hundred letters. Third, if the computer still doesn't find matches to the key words, it starts all over, starting with the second letter in the Hebrew book and repeating all the same skips it tried from the first letter. Fourth, if the decoders still don't find what they're looking for, they simply move to another book of the Torah or they try a different event with a different list of words. Fifth, the Hebrew Torah is written in consonants only; so, B-R-D can mean BIRD or BOARD or BORED or BARED or BREAD or BRED or BREED or BARED or ABOARD or ABROAD, etc. All the vowels are wild cards; so every string of letters has a huge range of possibilities.

Given that each book of the Torah contains tens of thousands of consonants with an infinite number of wild cards to go between them and thousands of ways of trying to skip through this pile of letters, the truth is that it's inconceivable that the decoders couldn't find a hidden message for any event, no matter how small. The only thing that's truly amazing is that sometimes they DON'T find a match for their keywords!

Finally, consider this: if a single letter had ever been dropped near the beginning of any book of the Torah, the entire code would be scrambled for that book, since everything depends on the relative placement of letters. In spite of how precisely the books have been transcribed over the years, there are variances of a letter or two here or there.