Fun With the Bible Code
Homemade Biblical prophecies made easy
Over the past few centuries, numerous theories have arisen about "hidden messages" supposedly inscribed in the Bible (and other holy texts). These messages can only be revealed, for example, by reading every other letter of the text, or every seventh letter, and so on. Many believe that these messages have prophetic value, and even that the "true" word of God is somehow tangled within these codes.
The irony here is quite thick, since it is the Bible itself that is supposed to be the "word of God," not some arbitrary partition of it. It's as if the Bible Code enthusiasts have read the Bible and found nothing but absurdity, so they began to read not only between the lines, but between the letters!
We tried to read the Bible the "ordinary" way, but it made no sense. That must mean that we're just not skipping the right number of letters!
In any case, the "messages" that are discovered are very brief -- single words, or a perhaps a short phrase, for example, "JFK SHOT," or "PAUL IS DEAD." Obviously, these can easily be interpreted as "prophetic" statements. However, the irony grows even thicker because, like all Biblical prophecies, they are always discovered a little after the fact (vaticinium ex eventu).
In about an hour of programming time, I developed a small Windows application that performs this exact function -- search for hidden codes in the text of the Bible. I then obtained the King James translation from Gutenberg, and eliminated all whitespace, punctuation, and verse numbers. Finally, I began my investigation. What I found was not necessarily surprising, but fascinating nonetheless. The following is just a short list of all the "revealing" statements I found in my search. Be prepared, and keep in mind that these are actual blocks of text from the Bible -- you can even read through them to be sure.
Update!
At long last, I've recovered the source code for my Bible Code Finder application! The program takes a plain text file (preferably a large one), and allows you to scan it for occurrences of words with equidistant letter spacing. Download the program and, if you'd like, browse the source code repository. To download the full text of the Bible (or a great number of other texts), visit Project Gutenberg.
It works like this: start the program and open the text file that you want to search (the program automatically strips punctuation and whitespace). Then enter up to seven words to look for, and click the Start button! The program will find the first occurrence of all words within a certain range, unless you select "Find All" instead of "Find One." The result(s) will be shown in the Results tab.
The "Frame Size" parameter is the range (in letters) within which all words must be found. "Min Delta" and "Max Delta" are the minimum and maximum letter spacing of words to search.
Obviously, longer words will take longer to search for. Generally it's highly improbable to find combinations with words longer than 8 letters. On the other hand, don't search for words shorter than three letters, since too many results will be found. As a rule, try to enter longer words first, then shorter words. This will result in a quicker search.
Genesis 1:1+
"We are the Borg"
Genesis 11:28+
"God ain't real"
Genesis 46:27+
"Jesus, phony"
Exodus 6:20+
"WTC plane crash"
Ezra 4:15+
"Jesus saves none"
Jeremiah 13:16+
"Jesus sucks"
Leviticus 10:7+
"Hello Kitty"
Numbers 1:20+
"Shuttle lost"
Numbers 28:3+
"Bugs Bunny"
Hebrews 2:17+
"Kennedy shot"
2 Chronicles 1:17+
"Kilroy was here"
Luke 9:3+
"Dmitry Brant"
What Have We Learned?
Something, I hope. In fact, I ran the exact same program on a large Microsoft help file, and obtained quite similar results. I suppose that even the above "prophecies" cannot be valid because the King James Bible is only a translation of the original Hebrew and Greek. But we can safely hypothesize that, given a large enough source of text, no matter what language, any word or phrase can be found using similar methods.
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Using a similar technique I have become the World's most accurate dart marksman. I've consecutively thrown over 1000 darts from a distance of 5 meters and hit the bullseye dead center each time. No kidding!
My secret? I throw the dart at a wall, then go up and draw the target around it. Works perfectly every time!
See?
January 7th, 2010 at 8:21 am
@John P. Cater: amen brotha - works if no one is looking either & saves time.
March 25th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
the fact that Jeremiah 13:16 is in the form of a cross must mean it is the true prophesy.
PS great website! I came in to tellelate then just seemed to get stuck.
April 8th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Can you run my name
April 17th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
i myself am a christian and even i don't believe in bible code after hearing all sides i find to just be some random word generator its been proven before when a scientist did the same thing with other books like Moby Dick just jumble random words together and you ll find something every time its called a crossword puzzle or at least it makes one at random actually that may be the only fun and sane to use it
April 26th, 2010 at 10:16 am
This just shows that you do not understand what you are doing and misleading others.
The code is in a certain language, Hebrew, not in english.
You might as well take a MAD magazine.
August 27th, 2010 at 9:39 am
The King James version was in the hands of Sir Francis Bacon during its translation. dig you know King James was a scum bag? had over 600 people put to death because he thought they where trying to usurp his "God ordained Rule"
I would research some of the Baconian Cyphers and apply that to your equation you may find some very interesting results. Also if you can get it in its OLD ENGLISH Form that might work better. what you wont find are biblical prophecies but what you might find is messages from the Hog himself. Then when your done with that apply the same cypher to Shakesspear. you might be surprised that it works there to
September 6th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Anyone who takes the bible code seriously is just playing with dice ...
JimCarey "..So like 1 in a million chance .. so you're telling me there's a chance.."
from Dumb and Dumber.
September 17th, 2010 at 11:34 am
the difference then this and moby dick is that moby dick found a few contections, where the bible code has of them 1,000. or maybe god talks threw many people.
November 27th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
lol. The bible is a big book, of course there are lots of letters, and you can spell anything you want to focus your mind on.. you can do that with any big book. In the end we all die and have to answer to the creator, our little minds cant even fathom whats out there,if you look at this world you can see that the human brain is always tempted to destroy the good, the good that is out there is "precious and worth holding on to, the bad that's out there is hurtful to us and we generally try to keep our fingers out of the fire". There is on only one answer, it might be better to play safe, surprises aren't always good
December 1st, 2010 at 5:22 pm
I open a Word document and get infinite hash. What am I omitting?
Also, how do you set the width of the rows (numbers of letters in a row)?
January 27th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
what program can u get to find and solve words of the matrix or spreedsheet u want 2 look in specifically? like a crossword solver... 2 see a list of possibilities per matrix?
February 13th, 2011 at 1:18 am
What's your point? The bible was written in Hebrew. Do this in Hebrew. Doing in english is meaningless.
March 10th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Sigh!! Randy, what it shows is that with a big enough book in ANY language with enough significant words there will be 'hidden codes' scattered randomly. The Bible, or Moby Dick, in English, Hebrew or whatever all work just as well.
April 2nd, 2011 at 5:58 am
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April 20th, 2011 at 7:37 am
God does not play dice with the universe. I see you are trying to play with yourself.
you have to attain some spiritual height to get revelation, not programming height. Is a nice job if you are
the god.
April 20th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
@peters,
Your words, while much appreciated, are profoundly meaningless.
June 10th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
The bible code is done in Hebrew. It is the very nature of the Hebrew language that makes the bible code what it is. Find all that stuff in the Hebrew Torah and I'll be impressed. I understand that you're trying to prove a point but you're not doing a very good job if the experiment itself is flawed.
January 14th, 2012 at 12:21 am
And you think this is fun? insult = fun ???
January 14th, 2012 at 10:06 pm
@FrozenMyth,
It's fun that you find it insulting!