Hank Hanegraaf, aka the "Bible Answer Man", and president of the Christian Research Insitute (CRI), has published an article in "The Christian Research Journal" that debunks it. In fact, I have heard that if the same ELS (equidistant letter spacing) sequences that are used on the Torah to extract meaning are applied to War and Peace, that similar results can be obtained...that is, seemingly meaningful phrases can be extracted.
I do believe that God can do whatever he wants, but I doubt that the Bible codes are His work. We do know that there are acrosstics in the Old Testament that were created by its authors, and chiasmus is found in the Old Testament, which also is a product of its authors. However, these are known literary tools that anyone can use, unlike the purported "hidden" messages. Like it was once said, if you have an infinite number of monkeys pounding on an infinite number of typewriters, one of them will write a Shakespeare.
Speaking of "Shakespeare" and of things "hidden" in the Bible, it is said that William Shakespeare was a translator for King James, and that he "signed" his work. In the KJV, Psalm 46, look at the 46th word from the beginning of the chapter, and the 46th word from the end. Hmmmm.
Perry
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Subject: [TruthTalk] Bible Code
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:10:30 -0600
I was looking around at the bookstore today and came across Bible Code II.
Do any of you on TT have an opinion on whether there really is a secret code
in the original Hebrew text of the OT? I think it is possible, because with
God anything is possible. Or do you think the words and phrases they find
(via computer analysis) are just coincidences?
Now they have come up with an apparent end of the world date of 2006. That
would be fine with me! I'd love to see the Lord Jesus coming on the clouds
to put an end to all this madness! And current events are really getting
hot in that area of the world. Izzy
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