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Normal · 06-24-2003, 01:57 PM

So the original Bible was written in Hebrew, and they're looking for Biblical codes in English?

Right.

Ab_Normal · 06-24-2003, 03:30 PM

even better, the author of The Bible Code met with the pentagon!

Quote:

Two weeks ago, a group of senior intelligence officials in the Defense Department sat for an hour listening to a briefing by a writer who claims -- I am not making this up -- that messages encoded in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament provide clues to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. One of the officials told me that they had agreed to meet the writer, Michael Drosnin, author of a Nostradamus-style best seller, without understanding that he was promoting Biblical prophecy. Still, rather than shoo him away, they listened politely as he consumed several man-hours of valuable intelligence-crunching time.

NY times partial story

someone more diligent than I could find the threads here spawned from the news story.

Corwin · 06-24-2003, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by Normal
So the original Bible was written in Hebrew, and they're looking for Biblical codes in English?

Right.

No, actually they're looking in Hebrew. Or Greek in the case of the New Testament.

RBH · 06-24-2003, 10:38 PM

I particularly liked this from the Skepdics Dictionary Wyz_sub10 gave the reference for above:

Quote:

Thomas also did an ELS analysis on Drosnin's Bible Code II: The Countdown (2002) and found the message "The Bible Code is a silly, dumb, fake, false, evil, nasty, dismal fraud and snake-oil hoax."* Does this mean that God put in a code to reveal that there is no code?

RBH

paul30 · 06-25-2003, 01:51 PM

Dear Anti-materialist:

Yep.

Your underwear IS green.

Says so right there in Leviticus 14:35.

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Normal Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 639	So the original Bible was written in Hebrew, and they're looking for Biblical codes in English? Right.

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paul30 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Atlanta, GA USA Posts: 870	Dear Anti-materialist: Yep. Your underwear IS green. Says so right there in Leviticus 14:35.

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