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.
>>No serious mathematician has any doubts on the authorship of the Bible.
All serious mathematicians believe God wrote the Bible? I don’t think there’s that test for mathematicians.
Statistical in a long enough text you will have nearby letters that make words and sentences. Comparison tests using of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” were just as successful as those with the Bible.
You may of course believe which author you wish on this; however, the larger point is the view that the Scriptures are God handwriting. The only religion I’m aware of that holds this view is Islam.
thanks for your reply..
In this context, a more accurate way to put the phrase: “God handwriting” is God dictating every character/word by word.