But, what about Super Bowl winners. Surely Divine Revelation must be as equally concerned with football as it is with drunk-driving actors.
Given the statement "The love of money is the root of all evil," I fail to see any validity in such a probability.
Certainly God is concerened with Mel as an individual.
But I think the illustration is more along other lines.
Perhaps that
--Wonderful works such as THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST do not earn Heaven. Salvation is by faith in Christ and His Blood, alone.
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It's interesting that no one seems willing to deal with this fact:
"This collection of five codes was so long and so tightly interlaced that it had to be intentionally encoded. It deserved full disclosure in spite of its troublesome content." How courageous.
Most Bible codes are prophetic fragments. Their general language and uncertainty as to context (e.g., who is speaking and which nearby codes are related) render such codes unreliable as the basis for making predictions. Typically, after an event has occurred, however, it is easy to observe numerous possible references to that event within a group of codes.
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This is also a very important fact, principle in such analyses.
I sometimes think that even when there's a long, very statistically valid code, that too much can be made of possible interpretations. That is, that given the various possible plausible wordings per the Hebrew scholars, this or that option may be made a lot of plausibly but still miss what God may be trying to say. We ALL STILL look through the glass darkly even and maybe especially with the codes.
To me, it's interesting that the 2004 code may have presaged Mel's DUI. And, that it may have at least hinted at the tortured personal and spiritual issues involved.
It's quite plausible to me that given THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST--which I believe God greatly used Mel to bring forward--that God could further use MEL TO HIGHLIGT VARIOUS SPIRITUAL ISSUES.
1. That pride and money don't cut it.
2. That anti-Jewish stuff is deplored by God.
3. That works don't earn Salvation.
4. That God will expose sin's pollutions regardless of world stature and degree of fame.
5. That humility before God always is preferred to fame, money, achievement etc.
Such messages seem clearer to me in this Mel bunch of codes than a lot of the tedious spelling out of various interpretive cryptic options.
I think the cryptic element is part of what Christ referred to when He mentioned to His disciples why He spoke in parables--hiding truth from the skeptics while revealing it--at least providing evidence for faith--to those of authentic heart belief.