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FurGodWurLivin -> RE: Bible Codes? (8/26/2008 5:48:37 AM)
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When gawking at "Bible Codes" we would probably serve ourselves best to define what we are taling about when we mention this group. We could be talking about Gematria (which while odd, might carry some weight), or Equidistant Letter Spacing. Gematria is an ancient practice by Rabbinic Judaism... as such, it is possible that there might be something more to it than meets the eye. I'm not saying it is, but it doesn't destory my faith to find out there is.
Equidistant Letter Spacing, while an intriguing little phenomena, has no real value. Why? Because the same exact thing can be accomplishd in almost any piece of literature. If you use a highpowered computer, you can find "prophecies" in just about any book. Why? Because the rules of the method are so fluid that there might as well not be any. Skip an equal number of letters between each letter of the word, then look at the passage where those letters were found to see if there are any corollaries. It doesn't discount any distance between letters, which means it has a high probability of being mere coincidence. Considering how many characters there are in each passage of scripture, how many variants there are on the Hebraic source texts themselves, how many characters have been skipped to prove a point (one case study I saw used an equidistant space of more than 3000 letters), and how many various passages those letters would all intersect, I find this "art" more subjective fascination than anything else.
If you look hard enough, most referrences to people or places can be found more than once, using more than one spacing value... so honestly, I find it a highly manufactured form of study. If something coincides, that intriguing... but more often than not, it's just not that shocking.
Adam
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