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"Could it be a case of researchers finding what they want to be there i.e. fitting the facts to the theory?"



Of course it is!!


Another good old conspiracy theory.


Along the same lines ................

I knew a man back in the 1970s/80s who had been a researcher in the tobacco industry before moving to a university.

This was at the time when there was still a lot of controversy about whether smoking was bad for you.

While working for the tobacco industry, he had published the statistical analysis of results of a study into smoking, illness, etc ............... and showed that cigarettes had no effect.

Once he moved to the university, he took those same results, used a different statistical analysis technique ........................ and showed the complete opposite!

Also, remember that the "originals" were written down over a time span of about 1000 years. At what point did the codes appear as presumably they couldn't have been part of the oral history that came before any written text?

Could it be a case of researchers finding what they want to be there i.e. fitting the facts to the theory?

"However the OT is the Jewish history and they are extremely strict on their scripture being transcribed as the originals."

The originals have been lost for 2,000 years. They have been transcribed, translated, retranscribed and retranslated.

The several translations of the NT do show modifications down the years.
However the OT is the Jewish history and they are extremely strict on their scripture being transcribed as the originals.

It is in the OT that these "codes" have been found.

I came across this subject on Y**Tube and at first thought it was to sell some new book. Not so, although new books have been written on the findings..

Apparently using similar techniques, Moby Dick predicts the assassination of Indira Ghandi, Martin Luther King, JFK and the death of Princess Diana.

I would say not credible, but loved by those who like conspiracy theories of any kind .................

the text has changed many times throughout the centuries, as Guinevere said, but also the original text was written down from oral histories that went back centuries before that

and we all know how accurate oral histories can be!

The oral histories used in the bible are much the same as the oral histories of the various First Nations around the world ................ a certain amount of truth explained in a way that was understandable to the uneducated members of the 'tribe".

Hence God made the world in 6 days and rested the seventh .................

change "days" to "eons" and you reach something of the truth, but stated in a way that an uneducated person would understand. They would know the span of a "day", but even "a century" would be beyond belief.

Given how often the text has changed since it was first written it's hardly credible.

Genesis and Exodus  contains a code spelling TORAH at equidistance's. The same applies in Numbers and Deuteronomy, but it reverse.
Both pointing to the third centre book, Leviticus.
A different number equidistant sequence in Leviticus spells YHWH
Chance ?

Examples please.

EDIT

Is it the code described here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_code
and here
http://skepdic.com/bibcode.html

In the Old Testament researchers, some devout, have found an alpha numeric code.

Many present day occurrences of note have been deciphered, some political assassinations have been found with names, places, dates.

Remarkable as written some 4000 years ago.