I'm sorry but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out an Orthodox Jewish translator of the code, Moshe Aharon Shak, all of a sudden finding a code calling Mel names and trying to grind his name in the dirt JUST about the same time The Passion is being released, that it's not science, it's vengeance!!
Do you honestly think that God has it in for Mel Gibson for making The Passion of the Christ as this man is trying to claim? For simply retelling the last hours of our Blessed Lord on earth? That movie helped to bring a lot of people to Jesus Christ and was a great evangelical tool. Yeah, Mel Gibson is ROTTEN TO THE CORE over that one! Good grief! I bet God is going to send him to the lowest pits of Hell over that!
I have a lot of faith and confidence in the objectivity of the Jewish scholars involved in code research. IIRC, more than one of them have has become a believer in Jesus as their Messiah as a result of the code research.
I won't begin to guess God's thinking and feelings about any number of people, including the complex character of Mel Gibson. And, some would say God spoke in hyperbole in parts of the Old Testament. He can choose to do so about Mel for whatever reasons.
He does happen to be
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GOD!
ACTUALLY,
The objectivity, biases, whatever of the Jewish scholars doing the code research doesn't really have much to do with anything about the codes as long as they are honest. But even if they were dishonest--which none have been--THE CODE ANALYSIS IS STRICTLY MATHEMATICAL AND OBJECTIVE.
Even the interpretation of the resulting Hebrew is limited to relatively few options and often one or two options which are all listed as possibilities.
I think the good Jewish scholars are owed an apology.
I hope when I pontificate, I have a better grasp of the topic concerned.