WORMS Brian's Digest: Bible Codes


SCI.OP-RESEARCH Digest Mon, 25 May 98 Volume 5: Issue 21

Date: 23 May 1998 01:34:51 GMT
From: mjhines@ix.netcom.com(Mark Hines)
Subject: Bible Codes
Dan Piponi Ph.D. wrote:

>Why not give Hebrew transliterations of the stuff below so we can see
>just how short these things are in the original language.
Okay, Dan, below is an updated list that gives the number of Hebrew letters in each ELS example. As you can see, of the 50 examples, 34 of them (68%) have 4 or more letters. Since there are several freeware Bible codes programs available on the Internet, one can verify the finds. Since copies of the Torah and Tanach are also available for downloading, one can count the letters by hand as well. One does not have to take my word or Yacov Rambsel's word for the evidence.

Messianic Jew Yacov Rambsel (in his book _His Name is Jesus_) and others have discovered a Bible code mega-find. Looking for words encoded in equidistant letter sequences (ELS), Rambsel discovered in Isaiah 53 over fifty names that deal with Christ's crucifixion. Yeshua, the three Marys, the Disciples, Herod, His Cross and other words dealing with the Crucifixion are, appropriately, encoded below the text of Isaiah 53, the Suffering Servant chapter. This clearly Messianic chapter of Isaiah leaves no doubt about God's only plan of Redemption.

Over fifty terms associated with the Crucifixion are clustered together at minimal skip distances in the short twelve-verse chapter of Isaiah 53. The KJV translation of Isaiah 53 is quoted below. Tears should flow in the eyes of believers who read the below encoded names, together with the exact verse each term starts and the skip distance of each term, in the Suffering Servant verses. When one compares the number of names encoded and the tightness of the grouping with that of other finds, one can realize how impressive evidence for the Bible's supernatural design is.

Other ELS finds have been impressive, too, such as the 25 plant names that are encoded in 19 verses of Genesis, a section dealing with the Garden of Eden. The chance probability of these 25 names is 100,000 to one. The chance probability of 16 "Eden" names encoded (Genesis 2:4-10) is about 10,000 to one. The name "Aaron" is encoded 25 times in the first chapter of Leviticus at a probability of 400,000 to one.

Here is the Isaiah 53 mega-find:


Name                   Isaiah  -  Skip  -  Letters
--------------------------------------------------

My God                 53:12       -26       3
The Lord Almighty      53:9         49       5
The Lord Almighty      53:3        -55       6
Yeshua is my name      53:10       -20       7
Yeshua                 53:8         65       4
Exceedingly high,      53:11       -20      12
Yeshua is my strong name
My Prince              53:10        19       3
Nazarene               53:6         47       4
Messiah                53:11       -42       4
Messiah                53:8         65       4
Shiloh                 53:12        19       3
Galilee                53:7        -32       4
The man Herod          53:6        -29       7
Satan                  53:8         48       3
Neutralize Lucifer     53:3         20       7
To twist, to roam,     53:12       -19       9
the serpent
The evil Roman city    53:9          -7      9
Trouble                53:2         -19      3
Worm                   53:6         -19      4
Annas (High Priest)    53:3         -45      3
Tremble Mary           53:9          28      7
Mary                   53:11        -23      4
Mary                   53:10         44      4
The Disciples mourn    53:12        -55      8
Peter                  53:10        -14      3
John                   53:10        -28      5
Andrew fears God       53:4         -48      5
Thomas                 53:2          35      4
Thaddaeus              53:12        -50      3
Matthias               53:5         -11      4
His Cross              53:10         52      3
Lamp of the Lord       53:5          20      6
Bread                  53:12         26      3
Burnt offering         53:8         -26      3
Ram                    53:2         -26      3
Enter into our         53:5         -26      8
Salvation
To life                53:7          26      3
for my brothers        53:7          26      5
Bride                  53:10        -26      3
Bridegroom             53:12         26      3
Obed (servant)         53:7         -19      3
Pharisee               53:9         -64      4
Mountain of grace,     53:2          49     10
The prophets of God
The Levites            53:2         -49      4
Job (trouble)          53:2          19      4
The despairing         53:11         14      8
Fullness of the whip   53:4          97      7
Life of grace of Noah  53:5          19      7
Bosom Lamb to be       53:7          -1     12
observant of snare
My holiness            53:12         26      4
-----Isaiah 53

  1. Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
  2. For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
  3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
  4. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
  5. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
  6. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  7. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
  8. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
  9. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
  10. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
  11. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
  12. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

It is becoming more and more clear that those who go to hell cannot claim that they did not have ample proof of God's existence and did not have ample warning of the consequences of not loving God and trusting in His Son's blood atonement for sins as the only hope of Salvation. They will have only themselves to blame in eternal blackness and burn pain, the most severe kind of pain, forever and forever. God describes hell as a place where there are a lake of fire (Revelation 20:15), a furnace of fire (Matthew 13:50), everlasting fire (Matthew 25:41), everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46), eternal damnation (Mark 3:29), wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:42), outer darkness and weeping (Matthew 25:30) torments in flames (Luke 16:24).

Mark Hines

Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 11:52:10 -0400
From: Avital Pilpel <ap241@columbia.edu>
Subject: Bible Codes
Mark Hines wrote:

>  It is becoming more and more clear that those who go to hell cannot
> claim that they did not have ample proof of God's existence and did not
> have ample warning of the consequences of not loving God and  trusting
> in His Son's blood atonement for sins as the only hope of Salvation.
Unfortunately, you are wrong. There are three major problems with the bible code that totally nullify the claim that it is a "code".

  1. It is totally post-hoc. There are literally trillions of trillions or trillions (the actual number is probably quite larger, but I didn't bother calculating exactly...) ways to _look_ for codes in the bible. You could use a jump of 1, 2, 3, ... you could start at place X or place Y... you could go diagonally, horizontally, vertically, etc., and arrange the bible's letters - or the chapters's letters, or the sentence's letters - in a square measuring x by y, or w by u, or... and so on.

    Amoung those trillions of possibilities, it is not at all suprising that SOMETHING whose a priori probability is very low will happen. Think of someone walking in the snow. The a priori possibility of him walking in EXACTLY as he did is close to zero. But it is virtually certain that he will walk in the snow in SOME way. Same with the bible code.

  2. Except for that problem, the bible "hides" TOO MANY messeges for it to be a code. If you look hard enough, you will find not only hidden things that are true, but many hidden things that are nonsense. I'll bet anything that if you look hard enough, you will find "Jesus Christ is the lord" hidden in the bible. But if you look hard enough, you will also find "Worship Satan" or "Jesus is crap" or "Hitler is cool"...

  3. Except for these two problems, there is the issue of uniqueness. You see, the bible is not the only place where one finds codes. The SAME types of codes were found to be "hidden", for example, in "War and Peace" and "Moby Dick", and even in supreme court rulings. Or for that matter, if you will look hard enough in yesterday's newspaper, you will probably find some "hidden messege" too. So, either practically EVERYTHING ever written (of sufficient length) is a "code" from God, or nothing is...

  4. Oh, and about going to hell... what kind of God _is_ it that you are worshipping, one that will damn people to eternal damnation just becasue they don't believe him? I, for one, am agnostic, but even if I *did* believe in god, that sort of god would hardly be a candidate. And to think that this god is supposed to be the god of love and mercy...

A good way to look at god is given be Heinrich Heine. When he was on his deathbed, he told a close friend that he became a believer in god. His friend told him that he must confess this publically; Heine replied: "Do you *really think* that the great white elephant of the King of Siam *cares* whether a small gray mouse in Paris believes in his strenght and power or not?".

So, if you believe in god, believe in him. But don't drag him into *your* threats of hell on usenet. As far as I know, god@heaven.org is NOT a valid address.

Avital Pilpel.