I recognize the Bible Code. It’s been debunked including by statistical science. The first problem is which text you choose and where you choose to put the spaces. Then, statistically, the same or better “predictions” have been gleaned from “Moby Dick” with the same methodology.
The inclusion of Moby Dick as Scripture aside, you have the theological problems approaching a Qu’ran-istic view of the Bible.
If so, you’re correct, perhaps we do not share theology enough to discuss further, except on the rightness of this view. I also would say that a Bible Code view of the New Testament would be foreign for most Christian doctrine.
I’m assuming that by “the Bible really is God’s word in every respect” your excluding Jesus, Creation, God speaking to our hearts, etc. If God’s Word does not include all these, then I think the error veers further away from what I would call, lower-case o, orthodox Christianity.
thanks for your reply...
I wasn’t speaking of the silliness of Drosnin’s predictions, but the Bible codes per-se were certainly not debunked in any way. In fact, the debunkers were completely debunked when the texts that they supposedly used were proven to have been changed in numerous places from their originals.
There was a second book, “The Bible Code Bombshell,” that took it to the next level, and proved mathematically that the original estimates were conservative, and the level of improbability was actually several orders of magnitude higher.
But, even better, in the Greek Koine New Testiment, even more complex and convincing relationships were found in the most controversial portions, such as 1John 5:7-8.
No serious mathematician has any doubts on the authorship of the Bible.