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Bible code is more correctly known as Torah Code, because it is the Old Testament which is said to be in “cipher”, or that it has portions of it which are in cipher or have a hidden meaning. When you read sections of the old Testament, such as Ezikel’s description of the Cherub, it isn’t difficult to believe that the text might be hiding something more than a clear description.
Searches for Bible Code are more frequent around the major church holidays, as conversations turn to the topic of Church validity. Searches for this subject and similar topics will spike near major church holidays. (See working with the ever-changing “now”)
Contemporary discussion and controversy around one specific encryption method began in 1994 when Doron Witztum, Eliyahu Rips and Yoav Rosenberg submitted their scientific paper, “Equidistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis” to the peer-reviewed journal Statistical Science[1]. After unexpectedly surviving an unprecedented three rounds of peer review, the paper was published by Statistical Science and the “ELS” phenomenon was “presented as a puzzle” to its readership. A storm of controversy immediately ensued.
Since then the term “Bible Codes” has been popularly used to refer specifically to information encrypted via the ELS method.
Since the Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg (WRR) paper was published, two conflicting schools of thought regarding the “Codes” have emerged among proponents. The traditional (WRR) view of the codes is based strictly on their applicability to the Torah, and asserts that any attempt to study the codes outside of this context is invalid. This is based on a belief that the Torah is unique among biblical texts in that it was given directly to mankind (via Moses) in exact letter-by-letter sequence and in the original Hebrew language.
A Primer on the Torah Codes Controversy for Laymen
In Depth Look into Torah Codes
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