Various snippets on the subject:
I would argue that ``Bible Coding'' represents, from a Christian perspective, a clear occult practice, and that Christians should thus regard ``Bible Codes'' in the same fashion that the Bible indicates they should regard other occult practices such as palmistry, witchcraft, necromancy, divination.
Critics of the “Bible Code” theories point out that if one has a substantially lengthy text, and he does enough computer searches, if he can go anywhere in any direction in the text, he can “find anything.” Professor Don Foster of Vassar College, who specializes in using computers to analyze ancient texts, says that code searchers, employing the same techniques, could secure the identical results from “a telephone directory”
In 1997, in defense of his methodology, Drosnin issued this challenge: “When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in ‘Moby Dick’ I’ll believe them” (Barry/Rogers, p. 67).
Be careful about making rash challenges!
Professor Brendan McKay, of the Department of Computer Science at Australian National University, accepted Drosnin’s challenge. Running computer searches similar to those employed by Drosnin, he scanned the text of Moby Dick. By the Drosnin/Jeffrey method, he was able to construct “prophetic” messages foretelling the deaths of Abraham Lincoln, Indira Gandhi, Rene Moawad, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther King, Sirhan Sirhan, John F. Kennedy, and Princess Diana! Must one now conclude that Moby Dick was inspired of God by means of the pen of Herman Melville?
Beware of Drosnin’s work. Any work that draws an interpretation of the Bible and doesn’t lead to Christ is the work of the devil. All Biblical interpretation, whether based on the words or the structure of the Bible, must lead to Christ. It is the hiss of the serpent “hath God said.”
Bible Code numerology is, in fact, a technological Ouija board. A frightening new form of occultic technology. Statistical “tuning.”
Ignoring the clear and plain message of the Bible takes us down a detour of speculation and away from the practical pursuit of obedience and growth. The speculative chasing of “Bible codes” is not something found in historic orthodox Christianity. Seeing the “inner” meaning of Scripture as opposed to the literal and historical meaning was a mania of the Kabbalists in the 14th century. These Jewish mystics guided by Theosophy, mystical psychology, Gnosticism, myth and superstition ignored the plain, straightforward meaning of the Scripture.
The granddaddy of all comparative experiments has been done.
You are wrong.
HEBREW WAR AND PEACE was compared with The Bible. The authentic codes varied VERY SIGNIFICANTLY from anything found in WAR AND PEACE--in terms of length and in terms of other qualitative features.
Your sources have been proven wrong in a professional juried paper. I don't recall where the paper is in the publication process.