03-19-2008, 08:44 PM
Shlama Akhi Rafa,
One of the major objections to my book, Divine Contact, has been that it is very difficult to understand. I wanted to use low level analysis, as that was all that was needed to test the hypothesis- a simple test which most code researchers could repeat. That is the beauty of it-simplicity. If I had resorted to a more esoteric method-perhaps Divine name ELS proximity to surface Divine names, I would have had an even smaller audience and more criticism than I am getting now. No, I want to keep this as simple as possible and the analysis as simple as possible.
Perhaps there are deeper levels of codes. I would not be surprised. I see them as Divine watermarks validating the text as Divine in origin, so I do not spend a lot of time studying them now, or talking about them. I am much more interested in the text and message of scripture. It has a life giving power in itself that never ceases to amaze and draw me deeper into the light of Truth.
So you still believe Bible codes exist; you are just not a fanatic now?
Brendan McKay (code skeptic) came up with a Hanukah cluster of seven "codes" in a short 1123 letter section of the Hebrew version of War and Peace. One of the 7 Hanukah terms is 7 letters long. Many skeptics raved, "See, codes can be found anywhere!"
Nathan Jacobi, a colleague of Ed Sherman of BibleCodesDigest.com, and others have found 1600+ terms in Isaiah 53 (1584 letters) all related to the Messiah'. The longest ELS is 73 letters long. There are 61 terms 7 or more letters long and 27 that are 15 or more letters long. All are related to the surface text content of Isaiah 53. None of the Hanukah terms of War & Peace is. Thus far, neither McKay nor anyone else has come anywhere close to finding anything like the Isaiah 53 cluster. The Hanakuh cluster is a joke, statistically speaking. The Isaiah cluster is mind boggling. Practically every letter of Isaiah 53 is also a code letter which occurs in several code terms at once! And there is more I have not even touched on.
There are other such clusters in Psalm 22 and Exekiel 37 which dwarf any paltry examples code skeptics can point to in non Bible texts. All this can be read in Ed Sherman's Bible Code Bombshell, a must read for those who want to understand the subject.
On the title page of my bookDivine Contact, I have illustrated a Psalm 22 cluster I found. The book is available as a free download from my web site:
aramaicnt.com
Got to run.
Thanks for the post!
Dave
One of the major objections to my book, Divine Contact, has been that it is very difficult to understand. I wanted to use low level analysis, as that was all that was needed to test the hypothesis- a simple test which most code researchers could repeat. That is the beauty of it-simplicity. If I had resorted to a more esoteric method-perhaps Divine name ELS proximity to surface Divine names, I would have had an even smaller audience and more criticism than I am getting now. No, I want to keep this as simple as possible and the analysis as simple as possible.
Perhaps there are deeper levels of codes. I would not be surprised. I see them as Divine watermarks validating the text as Divine in origin, so I do not spend a lot of time studying them now, or talking about them. I am much more interested in the text and message of scripture. It has a life giving power in itself that never ceases to amaze and draw me deeper into the light of Truth.
So you still believe Bible codes exist; you are just not a fanatic now?
Brendan McKay (code skeptic) came up with a Hanukah cluster of seven "codes" in a short 1123 letter section of the Hebrew version of War and Peace. One of the 7 Hanukah terms is 7 letters long. Many skeptics raved, "See, codes can be found anywhere!"
Nathan Jacobi, a colleague of Ed Sherman of BibleCodesDigest.com, and others have found 1600+ terms in Isaiah 53 (1584 letters) all related to the Messiah'. The longest ELS is 73 letters long. There are 61 terms 7 or more letters long and 27 that are 15 or more letters long. All are related to the surface text content of Isaiah 53. None of the Hanukah terms of War & Peace is. Thus far, neither McKay nor anyone else has come anywhere close to finding anything like the Isaiah 53 cluster. The Hanakuh cluster is a joke, statistically speaking. The Isaiah cluster is mind boggling. Practically every letter of Isaiah 53 is also a code letter which occurs in several code terms at once! And there is more I have not even touched on.
There are other such clusters in Psalm 22 and Exekiel 37 which dwarf any paltry examples code skeptics can point to in non Bible texts. All this can be read in Ed Sherman's Bible Code Bombshell, a must read for those who want to understand the subject.
On the title page of my bookDivine Contact, I have illustrated a Psalm 22 cluster I found. The book is available as a free download from my web site:
aramaicnt.com
Got to run.
Thanks for the post!
Dave