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Summary: Sacriligious
Review: Michael Drosnin has insulted the Bible by turning it into one of those puzzle books where you try to find the hidden words along diagonals, rows and columns. He gets an A+ for cleverness, a B for writing ability and an F- for content. The only book that does a good job of combining religion and science is The Bible According to Einstein.
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Summary: PROPHET FOR PROFIT.
Review: It always amazes me what legnths people will go to avoid the truth. If the author/investigative reporter applied the same energy sans the mathematic mumbo-jumbo examining the claims of the Bible and Jesus Christ, I think he would find more astonishing results than the mysterious code.There are many scriptures that predict with 100% accuracy the time, date of the arrival of the Lord and exactly what happened at His crucifiction between 500 to 700 years before the event! (Read the Psalm 22, Psalm of the cross). There are literally hundreds of these throughout the Bible. It has been my understanding that a (Biblical) Prophet is considered a Prophet if he/she is 100% accurate 100% of the time.I wonder if you applied a similar software model to the dictionary would achieve similar results? WHEN GOD REVEALS HIMSELF, TRUST ME YOU WILL KNOW IT!!
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Summary: Devastating to scientist wannabees
Review: You asked for proof there is a G-d and the Bible is supernatural. Here it is. Controvercy is inevitable since the faithless world view is so thoroughly challenged by the underlying promise that a supreme being exists and is involved. Weird like fiction. Smart like Science. Reads like science fiction. Fantastic.
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Summary: this book is an ABOMINATION! Why not call it that?
Review: After having read parts of this abominable work (if you want to dignify it by calling it a "work"), I wonder where is the role of the blessed Holy Spirit in the inspiration of Scriptures, and the drama of human events? And there wasn't a "0-star" option in the ratings block. Drosnin should come in contact with the Third Person of the Trinity, and then take this waste of paper off the market!
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Summary: Sure, why not, go ahead and read it
Review: As the "thumb" on the scrollbar of my Netscape window grows smaller and smaller, I realize this is a book which has aroused some emotions. However, after reading the original paper, the work by Harold Gans and Brendan McKay, and others, I can only come to one conclusion: Drosnin's aim was to portray himself as the central figure in a timeless drama, nothing more. You'll have to look elsewhere for reasoned debate. Are the Codes true? I have no idea. But the truth lies somewhere between the agenda of mainstream science (who think truth is what they prove is true), and the agenda of religious zealots (who think truth is what they say is true). The book by Satinover is a better, more reasoned introduction. I give it a three.
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Summary: Exciting, revealing,confirmation,God be praised!
Review: At first I was excited, then estatic, that God would keep on revealing Himself to His people. He is a God who truly loves us to keep on revealing Himself to us. I am constantly in awe of Him because of His unending love. This book just opens up to me another way God keeps revealing Himself and I know that one day when The Book is opened my name will be in there and it will tell about the life I lived. More than ever I am determined that good will be written about me. I think God will bring future revelation to His Bride to prepare us for the coming of His Son. God is trying to tell us to get ready. Thank God for bringing revelation to me thru this book. pat wiser hendrix
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Summary: History, the Bible Code, and Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.
Review: "...the Torah alone was not merely inspired, it was dictated directly by God to Moses in a precise letter-by-letter sequence." (Cracking the Bible Code - Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.) "The early Jewish cablists believed tht the Old Testament was directly inspired by God, but with their love of secrecy, their interest in the hidden and contempt for the revealed, they looked for the truth of God's meaning beneath the surface words of the scriptures. Some of them seem to have thought that the Bible was largly written in various kinds of code. To unravel the codes they used mathematical and anagrammatic methods which were of considerable antiquity, but were first brought into prominence in the Cabala by the influential German-Jewish scholar Eleazar of Worms and his followers in the thirteenth century. One of these methods is gematria, which means converting the letters of a word into their number equivalents, adding them up, and then substituting another word whichadds to the same total." (The Black Arts - Richard Cavendish [pg 117]). [Kabbalah - Jewish mysticism] "The use of letters to signify numbers was known to the Babylonians and the Greeks. The first use of gematria occurs in an inscription of Sargon II (727-707 B.C.E.) which states that the king built the wall of Khorsabad 16,283 cubits long to correspond with the numerical value of his name. The use of gematria was widespread in the literature of the Magi and among interpreters of dreams in the Hellenisic world. The Gnostics equated the two holy names Abrazas and Mithras on the basis of the equivalent numerical value of their letters (365, corresponding to the days of the solar year). Its use was apparently introduced in Israel during the time of the Second Temple, even in the Temple itself, Greek letters being used to indicate numbers (Shek. 3:2)." (Kabbalah - Gershom Scholem [pg 337]). "The true essence of the Torah, on the other hand, is defined in the Kabbalah according to three basic principles: the Torah is the complete mystcal name of God; the Torah is a living organism; and the divine speech is infinitely, and no finite human speech can ever exhaust it."..."From the magical belief that the Torah was composed of God's Holy Names, it was but a short step to the mystical belief that the entire Torah was in fact nothing else than the Great Name of God Himself."..."...the Torah has been passed on with the understanding that it is a living structure from which not even one one letter can be exised without seriously harming the entire body."..."Had it not been for Adam's sin, its letters would have combined to form a completely different narrative. In messianic times to come, therfor, God will reveal new combinations of letters that will yeild an entirely new content. Indeed, this is the "new Torah" alluded to in the Midrash in its commentary on Isaiah 51:4, "For Torah shall go forth from Me." Such beliefs continued to be widespread even in hasidic literature." (Kabbalah - Gershom Scholem [pg's 169-174]). [Hasidism - the ultra-Orthadox Jews; lit. "the Pious Ones"] "Ba'al Shem (Heb. "Master of the Divine Name";lit. "Possesser of the Name"), was the title given in popular usage and in Jewish literature, especially kabbalistic and hasidic works, from the Middle Ages onward, to one who possessed the secret knowledge of the Tetragrammaton and other "Holy Names", and knew how to work miracles by the power of these names. The designation ba'al shem did not originate with the kabbalists, for it was already known to the last Baylonian geonim." (Kabbalah - Gershom Scholem [pg 310]). [Gaon (plural Geonim) - head of Babylonian academy after the fall of the Second Temple] "Sabbatai Sevi busied himself with inventing mystical allusions to himself by way of gematria (numerology). The numerical value of the full spelling of the divine name Shadday (Shin, Daleth, Yod) is 814, which happens to be the numerical value of the name Sabbatai Sevi." (Sabbatai Sevi, the Mystical Messiah - Gershom Schlem [pg 234]). [Sabbatai Sevi - a Jewish prophet (1665) who broke the back of the Jewish faith for almost 250 years.] False prophets? Prophicies? A future 6th book to Moses's Torah - contingent on a mystical wand? God's full name is the Torah itself? Masters of the Divine Name that can create worlds by magic {"If the righteous wished, they could create a world." Kabbalah - Ch. 12 Golem - Gershom Scholem [pg 351]}? The magical use of God's Name in general? It smells of Kabbalism and of Hasidism plain and simple. New wrapping, very old package. Even if it is on a computer screen - it is still cultic Judaism. No matter what 'code' you chose to use. The high rating is for origanality and content. But remember, even Doctors can kill patients if they use bad medicine. Sincerly, Shawn W. Ooten (Gershom Scholem - President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a Professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem until his death in 1982. Auther of 'Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism', 'The Messianic Idea in Judaism', 'Sabbatai Sevi, the Mystical Messiah', 'Origins of the Kabbalah', 'Kabbalah', 'On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism', 'On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead', and others. He put the Kabbalah back on the 20th century map.).
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Summary: Changed my view on Biblical Inspiration
Review: After leaving Nazarene Theological Seminary in 1975 I held the "Plenary Dynamic" theory of Biblical inspiration -- that is that the concepts were inspired by God but that the actual word and grammatical structure was left to the individual authors. After reading this book, and related books and tapes on the Bible code, I have had to rethink this position and now I am leaning very strongly toward the "Plenary Verbal" theory -- which means that God inspired the very words (an even the very letters in this case) of the original documents as they came from Moses, the prophets, apostles, etc. Very thought provoking book. Since I read Biblical Hebrew, I was able to confirm for myself the presence of these codes as presented in the book!
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Summary: Go to the library...
Review: This was an interesting book, but was less than expected. It does not deserve a TEN as some people have put. My recommendation would be to go to the library and read it...but don't waste your money on it! I agree that by "munipulating" text, you can find anything in a book or document that is as long as the Bible if you try hard enough.
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Summary: Prophecies in Moby Dick too !
Review: You can find these "prophecies" in nearly all books, especially in jewish books since their words there don't have vowels and therefore the potential "prophecies" can be found even quicker...
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