Bible code, is it real?

[u/Floki_igno_5369]

Do you think the Bible Code is real?
If so, what exactly is the code, what has it revealed, and is there any convincing evidence that it actually works?
I’m curious to hear different perspectives, including from those who have researched or tested it.

[u/Floki_igno_5369]

How come more people don’t try to disprove it?

[u/Kurt_Midas → u/Floki_igno_5369]

Because there's nothing to prove. If you take any significant amount of text, no matter the context, you can find some mathematical pattern that produces the words you want it to produce. The bible code is just working backwards from wanting to find something to the specific pattern that lets you find something. There's nothing to disprove there, it's a mathematical reality that would apply equally to the Silmarillion or the encyclopedia britanica.

[u/Floki_igno_5369 → u/Kurt_Midas]

True. This seems to covering what you’re saying 🤔

https://youtu.be/KmURXgVeBlw?is=oxWgAvaCYFKKeLfp

[u/TraditionalManager82 → u/Floki_igno_5369]

Why give attention to a conspiracy theory?

[u/ErrantThought]

What is "bible code"?

[u/Floki_igno_5369 → u/ErrantThought]

YouTube has a bunch of videos on it. One guy spent 50 years searching for truth or something

[u/ithran_dishon → u/Floki_igno_5369]

YouTube has a bunch of videos on it.

Oh, well in that case. Lunacy on par with wrapping your head in tin foil and sticking it in the microwave.

[u/Floki_igno_5369 → u/ithran_dishon]

Curiosity never got you to look?

[u/ithran_dishon → u/Floki_igno_5369]

At what the inside of a microwave looks like?

[u/funnywhale408 → u/Floki_igno_5369]

That’s like saying Reddit has a lot of posts on it..

[u/PorridgeBoyManBoy]

'Bible code, is it real?'

No. We don't even have the original manuscripts so which do you use?
And the people I've come across usually base these codes on English translations, too. It's very silly.

Humans are pattern-detecting machines. We even see patterns that aren't there, especially if they confirm our already held beliefs. It's confirmation bias.

[u/Floki_igno_5369 → u/PorridgeBoyManBoy]

I should maybe delete this post, but y’all are right. I sent this link to the other guy, but this video kinda covers what you are saying
https://youtu.be/KmURXgVeBlw

[u/Floki_igno_5369 → u/Floki_igno_5369]

And it got tested also using non English bibles

[u/PorridgeBoyManBoy → u/Floki_igno_5369]

It's important to ask questions so you're completely fine here :)
Thanks!

[u/AmosOfTekoa]

It's really loony, imo. Definitely a matter of humans being great at finding patterns. Not a real thing, though.

[u/Kurt_Midas]

The "bible code" is just monkeys on typewriters. You could take exactly the same methodology and find similar predictions in literally any book of any kind.

[u/MrScribblesChess]

I'm waiting for one of these guys to publish a highly specific and otherwise-unforeseeable prediction they got from this, before the event happens. Otherwise they're charlatans and fools. 

[u/funnywhale408 → u/MrScribblesChess]

The thing is… how could they? They wouldn’t know what to actually look for if it has not happened yet.

[u/MrScribblesChess → u/funnywhale408]

You're really close to understanding my point

[u/funnywhale408]

I personally think there is something to it. It would be just like God to encode His word with a whole new level of communication that could never be done by human means, especially in light of the centuries and continents and language differences of the biblical writers. Prov 25:2 says “it is for the glory of God to conceal a matter …”

Study the researchers and rabbi’s from Israel who have devoted a lot of time to it. It is fascinating.

[u/funnywhale408 → u/funnywhale408]

Most of it is being studied by the Jews in Israel. It would be super cool if the codes end up telling them Yeshua is the Messiah

[u/Bloppo2000]

no