The Bible code: the empirical proof of the existence of God
Turn to chapter 43 and you'll be bemused and amazed.
This is one of the strangest tales you've ever heard. The Torah, the five books of Moses (the five books of the 'Old Testament'), contains in code, hidden deep in the Hebrew text, precise information about events that took place hundreds of years into the future. For example, the precise dates of births of prominent rabbis, who lived more than a thousand years after the Torah was written. Totally absurd.
It is as if the works of Shakespeare contain in code the dates of births of al the future kings of England and other exact predictions. Yes, totally absurd, but true. If true (see below), then one must conclude that the text could not have been written by man, but by an super-intelligence, hence by God. If true, it also confirms the Jewish belief that Moses was merely the scribe, writing down what the Lord dictated.
The key to this riddle (and code) is contained in an article in the leading American science journal Statistical Science, bearing the boring title Equidistant letter sequences in the book of Genesis. The authors arethree Jewish mathematicians of world-renown.
Since the editors and their scientific advisers could not accept the results that Genesis contained statistically valid information about the (future) dates of births of prominent rabbis, as claimed in the article, it took eight years and many 'revisions' before the article finally appeared in 1994.
Five years later, in 1999, a devastating critique of the 1994 paper was published in the same journal, Statistical Science, under the title Solving the Bible Code Puzzle. It was written by four prominent mathematicians.
Its verdict? In the words of one of its authors, professor Bar-Natan of Harvard, 'A complete failure of the Codes.' End of the story? No, just the beginning. It turns out, as Defares' chronicles in chapter 43, which reads like a detective story, that the 1999 article and related reports are part of an academic conspiracy (the term is aptly chosen) by brilliant mathematicians – all atheists – to once–and-for-all demolish the folly that the bible contains any evidence of the existence of a deity.
In chapter 43 the nature of the bible code is explained in simple terms, and if you enjoy a good yarn about 'the good, the bad and the ugly' you'll not be disappointed. Final verdict: the bible code is valid and provides evidence of the presence of God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
