Anyone else read Michael Drosnin's "The Bible Code"? I myself have no idea what to think of it - what are your impressions?

Nope, the bible in standard mode is topical enough around these parts let alone introducing a "mysterious code" :D

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I've heard about the code, but I've never read any books on it. While it's not unprecedented, the Hebrew texts had a code written into them by means of the individual letters themselves, figuring out such a code within the current Christian bible would be impossible at best, foolish at worst. It has gone through so many editions and interpretations that what Christians are reading today is vastly different from what their counterparts read centuries ago. Even the King James Version varies in it's wording from publisher to publisher. Also, the church has decided that certain books are not meant for public viewing and have ordered them omitted from the bible, and I doubt they'll be looking for codes anytime soon.

The original texts were based off of older Hebrew texts, which, as I have said, had a code written into them. Not only did each word have multiple meanings depending on what words were around them, but each letter also had this same feature. The Christian faith, being essentially a sub-branch of Judaism, would most likely have used a similar coding system in their esoteric texts.

In order to properly determine if there is a code or not, the originals would have to be studied. Any idea where they are?

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Yes, I've read Michael Drosnin's book. It was okay, if a bit sensationalized, but by far the best book I've ever read on the Bible Code is "Cracking the Bible Code", by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.

According to Satinover, "The story begins with an ancient and mysterious tradition among the Jews concerning the Torah - the first five books of the Bible, which form the core of Judaism, and are sacred to Christians and Muslims as well. This tradition claims that, unlike all other books of Scripture - and unlike any other sacred text from anywhere else in the world, at any time - the Torah alone was not merely inspired, it was dictated directly by God to Moses in a precise letter-by-letter sequence.

Entirely forgotten by the larger world, this strange tradition is not widely known nowadays even among Jews. Yet for many of those learned in Judaism and faithful to its tenets, the strict veracity of such claims is not in doubt. They maintain, to this day, that the legend of letter-by-letter transmission of the Torah was passed down by word of mouth for millennia, form the time of the actual event, precisely fifty days after the Exodus from Egypt. Only much later was the claim committed to writing."

Later on in the book he goes on to describe the Scribal Tradition of perfection: "There are over twenty strict conditions that the scribe must adhere to in his work to ensure that a new Torah scroll is identical in every particular to all its predecessors. It may take years for a scribe to complete a single scroll. If so much as a single letter is misplaced or is improperly made, the layer of ink must be carefully sliced off the surface of the parchment. If it cannot be removed and properly corrected, the entire section of parchment on which it is written is no longer valid and must be unsewn and replaced."

I highly recommend "Cracking the Bible Code" to anyone who is interested in reading about the Bible Codes on a more serious level.

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Thanks guys.
Searcher, I will look for that book

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The bible code is complete rubbish. The exact same phenomenon can be found, and has been found, in any large body of literature!

Any intelligent person who has read up on the issue accepts that the five books of (not by) moses were written by five authors, and combined at a later date.

Also, muslims do not accept the pentateuch as holy. The Qua'ran is the only holy book within islam, even though many of the old stories in Genesis are shared by muslims.

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What gives? Did a bunch of us get abducted and I missed it? Or have some of us turned invisible and I can't see them any more?