|
Post by krystalmoore1986 on Jun 14, 2008 12:29:44 GMT -11
|
|
|
Post by hoobsmom on Jun 14, 2008 12:42:21 GMT -11
I am not sure about the bible code or not. It is sorta like the Nostradamus stuff. I think a lot of people read into the bible and see what they want to believe. It would be interesting to read the books though.
|
|
|
Post by krystalmoore1986 on Jun 14, 2008 12:43:49 GMT -11
Well I must tell you the books are very believable and use a lot of statistics to make my simple brain think they are knowing what they are talking about. I got both of them at goodwill for like five dollars. If I come across them I will try and quote some stuff.
|
|
|
Post by hoobsmom on Jun 14, 2008 12:47:10 GMT -11
Well I must tell you the books are very believable and use a lot of statistics to make my simple brain think they are knowing what they are talking about. I am sure they are convincing. But the Loose Change video was convincing too. Until you started to question the facts they were giving. But anything is possible when you are dealing with religion.
|
|
CougarBob
Hermes
Where is Everybody???
Posts: 997
|
Post by CougarBob on Jun 14, 2008 13:32:33 GMT -11
The old testament began as a bard's tale. It was passed from generation to generation orally. Each bard in turn taught it to an apprentice. When the bard died, the apprentice became the bard and continued reciting the history of the people and training a new apprentice. Since there was no writing yet, the history was carried within the memories of these bards.
Sometime around 3,000 B.C.E. the Bible was written in ancient languages whose alphabet does not even resemble ours today. How a song committed to memory, then written in a language with a different alphabet, translated, and translated for nearly 5,000 years until it was written in English could have characters that spell out the word Roswell is way way beyond my stretch of imagination.
I think that when one looks hard enough for patterns, you will find them. Whether its faces on the surface of Mars or messages in the Bible. Sorry, I'm pretty skeptical about this one.
|
|
|
Post by chrissy on Jun 15, 2008 14:57:25 GMT -11
I think its another one of those things that you can find anything you are looking for. If you have 5000 words on a page, there is a good chance you can mesh letters around and get anything you want stated. I dont know Im still out on this one.
|
|
|
Post by xXSpookyXx on Jun 15, 2008 16:26:34 GMT -11
I always felt that you could find codes in any reading material even if it was Stephen King's book "The Stand" Here is a skeptical inquirey on the Bible codes... Drosnin and others sometimes admit that finding isolated hidden names or messages can be the product of random chance. But they claim that finding linked pairs or triples of names or words is so improbable that doing so proves the supernatural, divine, or alien origin of the "message." In Drosnin's words,
Perhaps there was a bug in Drosnin's computer program. Or perhaps he didn't really want to find hidden message pairs outside of the Hebrew Bible. All I know is that I was able to easily produce complex hidden messages in all the texts I worked with. www.csicop.org/si/9711/bible-code.html
|
|