The BIBLE CODE

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Summary: Beware of false prophets...
Review: I was in the library doing a school assignment when a particular book on the shelf across from me caught my eye. Against my better judgement, curiousity got the better of me and I borrowed it. The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin is one insanely crazy book, and a very deceptive one at that. What the author claims to be encodings in the bible, from possibly, a higher intellegent race (in his case he went so far as to claim the voice that spoke to Moses from the burning bush to be that of an alien)is just a bunch of chance word findings among more than 304,000 + different words from the Bible. I am not a math wiz, nor am I an expert in the subject, but the info that Mr. Drosnin gives the reader in his silly book, is enough to bring out the skeptics in all of us. He never goes into detail about the math formula used to get the "bible code", only to say that it has been proven to be legit by every well known mathematician, scientist and other gullible academic. I've done my own research and have learned that many other cryptic warnings and passed assassinaitons were embedded in many other books, using the same formula, Moby Dick being one of them. Mr. Drosin also seems to think that the majority of the English speaking Western world would be able to read pages of Hebrew characters with the occasional circle,square,diamond,etc shape to signify the secret names and dates/events that had been secretly encoded. His pages of "crossword puzzles" didn't help to explain his proof just because I didn't know what lines of the Bible were being used. For all I knew, he could have been stringing together whatever characters would help him get the "prediction" he wanted. And his "predictions" always seem to come after the event had actually taken place. It gave me the impression that he does random searches in his database of Hebrew words for possible real life events. After reading the book, I realized right away that he never mentions once about the attacks of Septembter 11, nor is Sadaam, Iraq, President Bush or Tony Blair ever mentioned. Some prophecy.

This book became really stale, really fast and he nearly lost me at his theory of God being possibly alien. What makes this book even more ill-fated is the fact that although he insists in the legitimacy of this code, he does not believe in God nor is he religious.
Huh?
You'd expect someone who claims to have stumbled across a cryptic biblical code to become a true believer in a second.

As a deeply religious person and devout believer in God, I took great offense at this book. It doesn't have the power to look into the future, all it has is the power of mass (and false) hysteria. For those of us that are religious, there is one message that Mr. Drosnin fails to report from the bible.

Beware of false prophets.

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Summary: The Bible Code
Review: Michael Drosnin, paints a fascianating account of the possibility that there may be a hidden code in the bible. The text is well written and easy to understand. Drosnin starts off by telling how he was alerted to the possibility that there may be a hidden code in the Bible, by an Israeli mathmatician called Dr Eli Rips. Rips noted that the Bible code (a computer program) had linked Yitzak Rabin's name to a man called 'Amir' and the words 'assassin will assassinate'. This information was allegedly coded in the Bible thousands of years before the assassination of Rabin actually occurred.

The book is well written and easy to understand with numerous examples supporting the theory that there indeed may be a hidden code in the Bible. The fact that the person who discovered the code is a mathematicican and also that the code had been verified by scientists from numerous prestigious universities also added weight to the plausibility of the book.

Although the book has caused quite an amount of controversy, this simply verifies the fact that the whole idea of a hidden bible code needs further investigation.

An excellent read - if you read the first book the Bible code there is every chance that you may wish to continue with the sequel the Bible Code II.

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Summary: MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW
Review: I realize that it is difficult for many to believe that a book could contain within its pages our future. However, I feel after reading "The Bible Code", that this is exactly what is within the book that sits in many homes around the world.

The author has done an intense amount of research and digging into God's Word to bring forth the information of the hidden code. Truly I did not understand everything that I read in this book, but I did feel that the information could not be ignored, nor the proof that God has foretold mankind's future.

The read did stark my interest and I will look for other books on this subject and continue to discern the information that I obtain.
I feel it was a well researched book, one that if nothing else will cause you to wonder--what if? Isn't that what a good read is all about?

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Summary: Boring nonsense
Review: The codes exist, that is for sure, but are they significant? I wasn't convinced at all. The first thing you notice is how flexible the author's rules are. They can start at any Hebrew consonant they want and choose the line width as convenient. Secondly given a sequence of Hebrew consonants there is room for interpretation meaning they can get many words from the same sequence of letters. Given such a huge playing field and a computer they can find what they want. I could go on but this book isn't worth it. The only other thing to say is that it is quite boring, many examples over and over with the same emotional padding to explain them. It's a bit like a tabloid article that is drawn out. The only thing I felt convinced of was that the men behind this bestseller were in marketing and not mathematics. It's a clever way to make money, I'll give them that.

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Summary: Breaking the code?
Review: ...

The book is largely discredited now, but pops up now and again by people who find it on the remainder table and are mesmerised--the same kind of people who buy astrology charts and Nostradamus prophecies. I'm not saying there is nothing here. I'm not saying, either, that astrology is meaningless (I check my horoscope every day for some reason) or that Nostradamus didn't have a gift--but I think the Bible Code is, in fact, a human invention, yet one more way for humans to get excited over a remarkable text, not realising the mathematical principles which are more to the point in this 'amazing discovery'.

Read it with skepticism.

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Summary: Best book ever. Buy NOW. Pay double if you must.
Review: Fantastically interesting, inordinantly valuable as a scientific tool, and a crisp, cool read.

If you read just one book this summer, besides "Catcher in the Rye," read this.

And it's all true, regarding, at least, the predictions I have made using the software I purchased after reading the book.

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Summary: If you want the truth, read the bible
Review: This book proves that anyone can predict the future after it happens. As is the case he accurately predicts the World Trade Center attack after the fact. His so called prediction of the demise of the dinosaurs is a complete fabrication and lie as is the rest of the scientific ideal of evolution. Anyone who reads and understands the bible knows the God created ALL creatures on earth including dinosaurs, look for dragon or behemoth in the bible. Mr. Drosnin should start reading and believing in the bible and the salvation of Jesus Christ rather than his silly fabricated code, only then does he stand a chance to be saved.
Someone please forward this to Mr. Drosnin.

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Summary: A#1 Falacy of the Year!
Review: The concept of a hidden code defys all of God's purpose and intention in communicating to humanity through the Bible. The heart of the written revelation is expressed in 2 Cor. 1:13 "For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand."

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Summary: Science fiction at it's best!
Review: I knew I was in trouble when the author wrote in the forward, "I do not believe in God." Then what's he doing writing a book about the Bible?

I know I was in even more trouble when he started showing things in the Bible but not putting a reference, i.e. John 3:16, Gen. 3:15, etc. etc. Anybody can write a code in Hebrew and make it say anything they want.

Finally, I knew I was reading a poor attempt at science fiction when the authos said God is an alien.

Wasted my money on this one. Please do NOT buy!

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Summary: Not Credible
Review: The first thing you must know about this book is that the author - while claiming to be a journalist (he makes this claim many, many times, as though insecure about his credibility) - cites *no* sources for any of the "research" he quotes claiming that this Bible Code is real. There are no footnotes; no references to any published documents; no journals or page numbers to cross-check. This alone should raise tons of red flags among any sensible and intelligent reader.

Secondly, Drosnin contradicts himself many times throughout the book. Here's only one example. On page 55 he states that "Atomic Holocaust" apprears only once in the Bible code, and he links it with the dates 1995-1996. On page 126 he agains cites reference to "Automic Holocaust", stating this occurance is the "only time it is encoded inthe Bible", yet he cites it with a completely different date, 2006. First, why are there two seperate references to "automic halocaust", if there is only one occurance? Secondly, how can either be credible if there is more than one reference to a date? And since the same Hebrew letters are used for both text and numbers, couldn't you pull *any* date out of the text if you really want to?

This is frightening stuff, not because the Bible has a hidden code, but because so many people are duped by this. We want desperately to know what will happen in the future, without regard for our own personal consequences or our own personal relationship to God. Hal Lindsay proved the gullibility of society in the 70s with his "Late Great Planet Earth" nonsense. He even went so far as to predict the Second Coming of Christ (something the Bible is VERY clear cannot be known by anyone except the Father - even Jesus doesn't know the date, so how did Hal get it??). Lindsay's legacy in the church is still being felt: self-centeredness, abandonment of missions, fixation with quasi-science rather than concern for lost souls. (And Hal is still pedalling his garbage today, much to my amazement.)

Mr. Drosnin's book belongs in the circular file. His writing is atrocious, and his journalistic integrity is nil. The Bible has alot to say about the human condition and God's remedy for our sin - read it. The Bible Code is science-fiction. If that's all you're after, go out any buy some Asimov. Isaac may have been hopelessly humanistic, but at least the man could write.