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Summary: How the Bible tells about how modern events take place.
Review: This a stunning and almost frightening book about how the Great Book of God tells the past, confirms the present, and predicts the future. All of it written in a secret "Skip Code" implanted in the Hebrew Bible. After reading I asked myself,"Who would know about events that would happen 3,000 years after the bible was written?" I answered,"God."
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Summary: Profoundly thought provoking.
Review: Here is proof that mankind is going to go through many crises situations in the very near future and he is heeding to the revelations in this book in the same way that he has heeded to all the other revelations that have taken place in our history....let's wait and see.
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Summary: Drosnin delivers and informative yet redundant synopsis....
Review: I read this book mostly out of a fascination of the possibility that the code could in fact exist. I enjoyed reading it, although it seemed like Drosnin spent more time reiterating his prediction of the Rabin assassination whenever he felt his arguement was in jeopardy. This code could be used not to predict apocalyptic vision,but rather to focus on positive aspects of our past...and our future. Drosnin spent most of the book giving redundant examples and fear-based visions of the future. This is not the only future as Drosnin himself admitted...so why all this focus on doom and gloom?
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Summary: fundamentally flawed
Review: Read it, taste it, but don't swallow. For one, it is the kind of sensationalistic drivel that thoroughly deserves the heading 'bestseller' on the cover. It will no doubt have an effect on the absent-minded herd, who will praise Drosnin's trash as enlightenment to the truth. Secondly, Drosnin's covert argument, which I took as attempting to provide concrete proof for the existence of God, is fundamentally flawed. As a radical skeptic (I use the term strictly in its philosophical sense, not the popular) I feel I must voice two very basic problems with the argument. One it is wrong for us to jump to the conclusion, given that the code exists, that the author of the code is the Christian god. We have merely assumed this as the most logical conclusion, but we have no certainty that this is the case. It is entirely possible that alien beings who have been controlling human minds since the dawn of the species, purposely planted the code into the bible, as a way for w! e humans to see the future, and of course the bible, being such a book for the masses, is the likely choice. This explanation for the author of the code carries exactly the same amount of certainty and credibility as the former. Secondly, we are simply making a prejudiced value judgement when we assign value to these 'coincidences' or 'consistencies' in the code. Humans seek meaning; that certainly does NOT make meaning meaningful. Why is not the frivolous valued rather than the meaningful? The untruth rather than the truth? It is simply an unsupported prejudice that we value what we do, and value the way we do. So even if we assume that this code is 'valid' in the scientific, rational sense of the term, we humans are still to provide the interpretation of the facts. But when we are forced to do this, we find it impossible not to fill this interpretation with terms of value and unsupported prejudice. Thus we humans are still left in existential anguish.
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Summary: Interesting But Disingenuous
Review: It's an interesting read, and you'll be done with it in about 2 days (lots of graphs). To the open minded, you will see beyond the simple fact that all texts will come up with ELS, but that the Torah has incidents of ELS that are hard to explain via simple statistics. The problem I have with this book is that the author fails to convey clearly that his major source of the ELS incidents disagrees with his conclusions (although he does to an extent, he does not explain thoroughly). A simple web search will find his source contends that he is completely wrong in his conclusions. A great bathroom book. Neat for trivial knowledge. Can't buy the future prediction feature though...
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Summary: inciteful & reinforces faith
Review: i have read this book front & back. in my opinion it gives an open mind opinion on printed fact. the author never in the book says that the lord exists or does not exist. he leaves it up to the mind of the reader to make their own decision. as he explains the lord wants to know if "we will change it". with a logical explination can any one out there tell me who wrote this? i think if the lord is tapping on your heart than you will know wether this book is real or not. open your minds & your hearts. the author is not trying to sway you in any way but to inform you as to what he has uncovered in his research. not only does this book make me think of the "BIG PICTURE" it also makes my faith stronger & brings me closer to the lord. i recommend this book to any one that has an open mind & wants to find the truth!!!!! t
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Summary: Figures prove ANYTHING - but don't make it true
Review: I found this book too abstruse to be convincing. If figures can be used to prove anything, then I think it follows that a computer can find a hidden code in the Bible. A far more compelling biblical epic has to be "THE Autobiography of Jesus....." by Richard G. Patton in which the facts we CAN accept, are presented in an open and less 'theatric' manner to create a FAR more convincing whole. If you are going to take accepted knowledge and turn it on its head, you will need the skill of a great writer like Patton. The idea of the BIble Code is sound, but the delivery lacks conviction
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Summary: Economical with the truth
Review: Drosnin neglects to mention that the same kind of coincidental crossings can be found in any sufficiently long text, even in English (where there is much less room for interpretation/imagination than in Hebrew). Also, Drosnin should have paid some attention during high school math, perhaps he would have learnt something about statistics.
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Summary: Entirely Reasonable, Stokes my Love for Scripture Even More.
Review: This book really impresses me. I take the Bible very seriously - Old and New Testaments - and though I've spent a couple decades studying it, I continue to cull ENTIRELY NEW REVELATION from the same Scriptures each time I reread them. Step in the Bible Code. The fact that this "technique" to learning HIDDEN REVELATION requires a computer to decipher seems to me to be COMPLETELY REASONABLE - that is, I see NO REASON to imagine that God Almighty WOULDN'T have authored Scripture in this way. In fact, the author has a very good point in pointing out the Scriptures which predict that certain Bible revelation is "sealed until the last days". Dynamite interpretation of those verses, in my opinion. I just can't figure out what all the fuss is about? David says in the Psalms that "every one of my days is written down in Your book" (check your concordance). What book? Go figure. Why not the Bible itself? Furthermore, who's to say t! hat the Bible, itself, is not one and the same as the BOOK OF LIFE from Revelation?!!! If it is, then all the names of the Redeemed are encoded in there. Will someone argue that their own name is NOT encoded in the Bible in such a fashion? The most amazing thing of the author's remarks of all (to me) is his insight to the fact that the Bible Code computer program is only the 1st generation of such programs. I've heard all sorts of criticism of the Bible Code because it can supposedly "be made to say whatever you want it to say." But perhaps that's ONLY because we're dealing with it via a 1st generation program, which interprets the data in a 2 dimensional word array. Who knows: perhaps if such a program were expanded to "n" dimensions of similar deciphering, the text would read in full, authoritative sentences - like it does when one reads the book normally. Who can argue against such a possibility? Who is it who has so little faith in and awe of o! ur incredible God that he chooses to LIMIT his belief in Go! d's abilities (and His WILL) such that he imagines that God WOULDN'T make the Bible to truly have INFINITE DEPTH? This book was an eye-opener which makes me thirst for more of the same - and oh, how I'd like to get ahold of that computer program - and the source code! If so, I might be writing the next version of the book. This is worthwhile. But don't read it in lieu of the Bible - but that was not the author's intention, anyway. Just ignore the noise from the "clergy room", and from the folks in the back pews who are so set-in-their-ways, and from the TV celebrities appearing on Christian "tear 'em down shows". Read this book with an open mind and pray about it. I don't think you'll discount this message if you love God's Word more than man's religious tradition - and more than some religious figure head's moans and wails.
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Summary: Bible Code & Quantum Computers
Review: First time I read The Bible Code in January `98 - but then more & more it comes true that the most important things about the primary code were not mentioned. What`s completely to miss in this book are the concrete qabalistical abstracts about Hebrew language - absolutely neccessary for the right understanding of the message it`s dealing with. Everybody would dislike statistical computations of a timeless & also holonomical truth!!!! In clear we have to use a 9- or 10-dimensional algorithm here. So let me add a note about what I mean: The Hebrew bases on a selective combinatorical matrix of a number of 10, you can count as 0-9(geometrical) or as 1-10 (arithmetical). The wellknown law of that simply universal message of qabalah is given by the formula 1+2+3+4=10. But that means resp. works only in an arithmetical way! The geometrical interpretation is completely suppressed & hidden since a long long time, - but also maybe it was never known. For the geometrical Interpretation take this also wellknown formula: 1x2x3x4=24. Which are the two hidden characters in the Hebrew alphabeth (normal given as aleph & shin as substitutes)? OK - let me say so,I was a little angry about to read nothing about the basics BUT! about Quantum Computers. - Nice book. Very interesting! But about the rest...? Elsewhere I`m confirming to the reader who said - IF...YOU WILL KNOW IT! I`m a student of qabalah & qabalistical cosmogony since four years - I would be very interested who will find the REAL 9x-dimensional code base. Ideas? Questions? - Please Contact the shown adress. (Whether meaning Mr. Drosnins book, nor the HOLY BOOK, but:) WITH GOD - don`t bye!!!!
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