Michael Drosnin - The Bible Code

Pros: Entertaining Fiction
Cons: It's bunk! It gets repetitious!

This review is part of a write off to celebrate Kurt_Messick's first year anniversary of ordination in the priesthood and the convergence of various 500s - 500 reviews, 500 people who trust him, 500 days at epinions. The theme of this write off is either...

Pros: A good, entertaining read
Cons: Not based on solid facts

~ ~ The Bible contains a secret code (the ‘Bible Code’) which has accurately predicted many earth-changing events, among them the rise and fall of Adolf Hitler, the beginning of the last Gulf War, the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak ...

Pros: Great fiction
Cons: Weak logic that has since been PROVEN to be fallacious

Back in 1995, five writers from Israel claimed that by performing statistical analyses of the Bible, they were able to uncover secret prophecies that predicted events in modern times, such as the assasination of Yitzhak Rabin. These writers claimed to...

Pros: Great writing. It is so interesting, I could not stop reading it
Cons: None

I am for the most part, a fun to read author, (I hope) But this next review think different of the way I write, or it might even scare you, but it’s an issue that has occurred to me and I think you should be aware of it.
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Pros: Contains the original Witztum, Rips, and Rosenberg paper.
Cons: Sensationalizes the subject, contains conclusions not supported by the research or any scientific methodology.

The subject of this book, a paper published in a scientific journal suggesting that the authors had discovered a hidden code in the book of Genesis, is not only one of the most controversial matters to invade the world of mathematics and statistics but...

Pros: short, quick to read
Cons: too repetitious, can be confusing, utterly useless

A couple of years ago, a friend recommended that I read "The Bible Code", a book by Michael Drosnin. The book purports to explain a mystical code through which the Holy Bible can be used to predict the future. My first thought was that the word of God...

Pros: Very Interesting
Cons: Left with a lot of unanswered questions

In 1994 a journal called "Statistical Science" published a computer experiment done by two Israeli scientist, claiming to have found hidden messages of future events encoded in the Hebrew Torah. The Torah, better known as the "Five books...

Pros: interesting - exposed more people to the Bible
Cons: don't make it into a religion!

The authors here have attempted to validate the Bible by disclosing "hidden messages" in it. These messages were discovered by laying out the letters in rows of 'x' characters long and finding patterns that were diagnol, vertical, or...

Pros: Interesting to see if all is true.
Cons: None

This book decodes the things that have came and events that have yet to come. A true revelation of what will surpass in the years ahead. This book will make you think twice of all that goes around and seems like everything is alright. Not true my...

Pros: simple reading
Cons: I don't know Hebrew

This book is eerie, and SO INTERESTING! If you read the Bible, you might be interested in this book. The idea is that EVERYTHING we need to know is in THE BOOK (the Bible). As mentioned in The Bible Code, 50 years ago a rabbi noticed that if you skip...

Pros: Mildly Amusing In Its Poor Methodology
Cons: It's All Very Incorrect

Based on studies of equidistant letter sequences in the Torah, "The Bible Code" (both the book and the code itself) could have been the most important work humanity has ever undertaken, as it would be scientific evidence of the non-human nature...

Pros: Introduces ELS to public.
Cons: Too sensational, careless

I give this book a 3 because for all its faults it did accomplish something important - introducing the public to the Bible Codes. The phenomenon is real and of great import. However, Drosnin goes overboard and starts using ELS to try to predict the...

Pros: Brings a Fascinating Topic to Light
Cons: Tries to Use the Codes to Foretell the Future . . . a big mistake.

Since its publication in 1997, Drosnin's book has come under heavy fire from both Christians and Jews for its claims -- that the Bible was authored by a superior intelligence but that this superior intelligence is not God. Nevertheless, Drosnin's book...

Pros: Very imaginative, From a Fictional point of view.
Cons: Can be misleading, has been proven false numerous times.

Well,

the author paints a pretty vivid picture wich is seemingly phophetic in nature. I remember reading through this book years ago as a young man, parts of it scared the stuffing out of me! Only because I was not biblically literate...

Pros: REACHING FOR TRUTH
Cons: NONE

My interpretation/opinion of the book The Bible Code is that there is no absolute or defined future for the world. Anything is possible, good or bad.

As in The Ninth Insight, we determine the results by the way we choose to manifest our...