The premise was based on the old testament, and specifically the Torah.
Evidently, there is “a way” the books are supposed to be written with an exact copy of letters and words per line. This is so every copy will be exactly the same as the one before it.
This is why they can use the their algorithms to identify phrases that could be “recreated.”
Of course, you could do the same thing with any large volume, and they did it with Moby Dick. They came up with interesting results.
But, it is still bunk. Digital Tea Leaves at best.
Moby Dick communicated some deep truths regarding vengeance and the human heart. I don’t think one could have ruled out Bible Coding as being valid based on the fact that certain interesting results were found in Moby Dick’s transcoded passages. God’s Spirit works everywhere where there are things that are “true, beautiful, and of good report”. In short, the finding of possible hidden codes in Moby Dick doesn’t invalidate the possible codes to be found in the Bible. We also know that the secret organizations have been inserting codes,symbols, and hidden messages in their literature and public edifices for centuries. Was Melville a mason? The Moby Dick codes don’t negate the possibility of the Bible Codes!
That said I have my doubts about bible codes, especially as past “codes” only seem to have revealed things that have already happened which can signify selective pre-bias so that Bible passages could be “stretched and tortured” to get the results looked for. Now if they start using Bible codes in a way that predicts major events before they happen...then they might have something valid that must be taken seriously. Indeed, if such should occur, you would have a major interest by Intelligence communities, with accelerated attempts to ban Bibles or at least access to the original Hebrew,aramaic and greek translations!(from which the codes are generated). The Hebrew sources certainly have remarkable mathematical symmetry with numerical values perfectly divisible by 7.
I have hidden codes using this technique in the book I am writing. When decoded it says, "And in other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."