Mary from London has this question: What is the Bible Code?

A rumour was circulating a few years ago that some hidden information had been discovered in the Bible which predicted the nature of future events. Is there any truth in this?

The Bible code is nothing more than a crude theory which was propagated by a former police reporter on the Washington Post. During a stay in the Middle East, he heard that Eliyahu Rips, a mathematics professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, had apparently been working on a secret code hidden in the five books of Moses (the Torah) and had deciphered it.

What Rips had done was to take the 304,805 consonants in the Hebrew version, enter them into a computer and discover distinctive statistical and structural features in the names. He concluded that “details of occurrences” were described there, which had only happened thousands of years after the Bible had been written.

Created: 11:21 AM | Author: Jörg Dahlmann | Category: Current questions  |  Comments [0]