I am only on page 23 and so far I must say wow!
It has predicted, for the year 2006, a an atomic holocaust!
I will keep posting ...lol...every time I find something interesting!
If you have read it, please add your 2 cents!
Who Has Read..'Bible Code 2 The Countdown'?
by Legolas 9 Replies latest jw friends
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The Lone Ranger
sorry, but i don't think books like that are worth 2 cents. Thats my 2 cents worth. And that includs the Da Vanci Code too.
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Jamelle
I very much enjoyed reading the Da Vinci Code - and I'm looking forward to the movie starring Tom Hanks.
I avoided reading the book for a long time because of all the hype, but it ended up being a page turner.
Never heard of "Bible Code 2" but I've seen programs on the History channel now and then that talk about the Bible Code - I enjoy the discussion of such theories. But at the end of the day, they are still just theories to me.
It's better than reading the Watchtower or Awake, any day!
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jaffacake
Lego
I'm with lone ranger. My mother read the bible code books. They can look impressive til the tricks and cheats are exposed.
Please don't come here in 2007 and tell us all about the new light (bible code 3?) with the holocaust being postponed a few years. No doubt the author will tell you its your fault for having false expectations!
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lucifer
what is it about? do you believe it
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Satanus
You lost me at the atomic holocaust 2006 corner. Sorry.
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MegaDude
interesting review about it from Amazon.com
This is the feel-good laugh fest of the year. Really. I mean, here's the idea: Drosnin takes the original Hebrew texts of various books of the Bible (a feat in itself, since there are multiple versions of some of them), lines up the text in orderly rows and columns, and then plays crossword. Using various grid arrangements (there's no set rule for how many rows or columns he has to use, so he uses whatever he needs to get what he wants), he connects words vertically, diagonally, etc. and makes new sentences. According to Drosnin, when intepreted correctly these sentences make specific predictions, both for events that have already occurred, and for events that will occur in our own future.
Some of you may still be with him at this point. "Why not?" I imagine you saying. "If the Bible is truly God's own work, or at least divinely inspired, why wouldn't He place within it a code that would allow Believers to read the future of mankind?" I can think of several reasons why not. To take one example, as numerous (and too often overserious) debunkers have been at pains to point out, if you apply the same techniques to "Moby Dick," to Shakespeare, or to any reasonably long literary work, you will also be able to extract sentences that can be interpreted as pertaining to recent events. And you don't even have to learn Hebrew. God has apparently been a busier writer than we first thought.
The "Bible Code" has about the same level of seriousness as the writings of Nostradamus or Jeanne Dixon. Bible Code II is additionally weighted with millennialist hokum - as any number of religious sects will be happy to tell you, we are rapidly approaching the "Last Days" or "End Times," after all, just as we have been every single year since shortly after the Crucifixion - which firmly places Drosnin in the same lame-brained category as Hal "Oops, I think I'll move my predictions another few decades on" Lindsey. What seals the deal here, naturally, is that Drosnin makes a few predictions that are just too specific, and set too soon in the future. As a prior reviewer has noted, if New York fails to take a nuclear hit this year, Drosnin has some recalibrating to do. I'll take that bet. He really needs to move things out a bit if he wants to maximize his take from this scam.
Don't be taken. Even in the overpopulated realm of millenialist, pseudoscientific drivel, this is worthless fluff. In the real world, it's just a belly laugh. -
Legolas
LOL....I didn't say that I believed it, I just find it interesting!...You know I am just looking outside the box!
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sass_my_frass
I read Bible Code 1, and thought it was insane. Still it did open my mind up to other ways of thinking, and importantly it helped me see the insanity of what I was believing at the time.
You can't verify it because you don't speak Hebrew. And surely it depends on who was writing the manuscript, and comes down to how big their characters were (they have to line up for it to be a code).
Get any copy of say the complete works of shakespeare, draw five hundred lines through every page, and you'll probably see that one of them crosses 'atomic holocaust in 2006' too.
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Legolas
Well I finished it.
It was an interesting read!