Has any one read the book "Bible Code"?
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Yes, not cover-to-cover but I've read most of it. It's a good book, recommended reading if you ask me, both Bible Code and Bible Code II: The Countdown.
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It seems like a pretty sound program to me. They use God's law to show people their sin and need for salvation and then point to Christ as the solution. It's very biblically based. Now, as for other TBN programs.....some are very questionable.
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hmmmm, this will be good!!\n\nFor: GINEVRA1WEASLEY, how is he pulling things of contexts when it's from your very own Bible? 32 (Bible) Scholars couldn't get it right and I doubt that you'll be able to get it right..
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I don't like the fact that some people are reading it as fact when it is fiction. The man who wrote it(Dan Brown) was charged with plagiarism. I haven't cracked the book but know someone who is reading it but aren't taken in by it's lies. I find it just as abusurd as the supposed "book of judas."  \n\nHere is one of the lies of this book and the truthfull answers to it.\n\nThe Da Vince Code says...\nIn 325 the council of Nicea decided by vote to make Jesus divine. "Until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet." It was a close vote at that.  P.233\n\nFACT:\nThe council, of which we have the historical writings and decisions, had mothing to do with the divinity of Jesus. They were didscssuin Arius, who had begun teaching that Jesus was not eternally co-existent with the father but was divine, The discussion was around whether Jesus was eternally co-existant with the father not wherether Jesus was divine. The close vote.... was almost 300  to  2. WE WOULD call that a landslide in today's English. Consider these Verses.\n\nMatt 16:16  Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son fo the living God" NKJV\n\nMark 15:39  So when the centurion, who stood oppostie Him, saw that He cried out like this and breathed His last, he said,"Truly this Man was the Son of God!"\n\nLuke 4:41   And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying. "You are the Christ, the Son of God!?\n\nJohn 10:33  The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."\n\nJohn 20:28  And Thomas answered and said to Him, "My Lord and my God!"\n\nThe Da Vinci Code says...\nThe church demonized the sacred feminine and the goddess by reaching teh concept of original sin, "whereby Eve tasted the apple and caused the downfall of the human race." P238\n\nFACT:\nThe Bible actually blames Adam much more that Eve and nowhere does the Bible mention an apple, merely fruit.\n\n! Cor 15:21-22  For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.  22.  For as in Adam all\ndie, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.\n\nRom 5:12 Therefore, just through one man sin intered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned-\n\nSo if they read the Bible they will see that the Da Vince Code is a joke. The fact that it is a novel: n. a fictious prose narritive of considerable length... fictious: adj. \n1. created or assumed for the sake of concealment; false.\n2. of or consisting of fiction; created by the imagination.\n\nThese definitons came from Websters Dictionary not something I made up.
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As a firm believer in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, I must admit, that the book was well written. The cast of the movie is top notch. However the movie is complete blasphemy against our Lord. The Bible clearly shows the Life of Jesus, no where does it mention Him being married or having children. \nIt is sad, but true, that many Christians and non-Christians that watch this movie are going to be shown a perverted view of Jesus Christ.\nIf somebody was really interested in learning about the Lord God, please I encourage you to pick up a Bible. \nCompare how Jesus fulfills all the prophecies about the coming messiah. Some of which were written 500+ years before His birth.\n\nJohn 3:16- For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son, that whoever shall believe in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through Him might be saved.\n18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believe in the name of the only begotten Son of God
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hidden bible code\n\nlook at page 2\n\nits one higher than page one\n\nthen go to page 3\n\n3 is one higher than 2\n\nand we see this patter repeat through the book\n\npraise jezus
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Dear ES,\n\nI agree with you and I enjoy reading it and giving away copies of the Bible.\n\nLong before I read the Bible from cover-to-cover I intended to re-write the Bible and take out all of the sexist language.  What a joke that was!  When I finally read it I didn't change it but it sure did change me!\n\nOne wonderful thing I noticed was that I had the feeling that it was written directly to me, even though I know it was written long before I was born.  It reminds me of looking at a photograph when it seems as though the subject is looking right back at you.\n\nEven though there have been several translations of the Bible they all say just about the same thing.  However I've seen a few that are not divinely inspired and there is no sense of the Living Word of God.\n\nYes, it is fascinating to look at the prophecies and realize that Jesus was the only person who ever had his biography written before He was born!
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I have read it and the following will prove it. These are real people with birth and death time. I love it. I read it 13 times in ten years and about 20 now, as they sa, each time you see what you missed before. I can read through 2 Chronicles in half a day now. I have never tried to describe the probably more than 1000 religions. I wanted to know the bible first and then determine who was right. I did not do that yet, do not except those studied.\n\nMoses began to compile the first five books. It is evident that Abraham was a collector of information. No problem for\nIsaac, Jacob and the 12 tribes to keep up with it. Easy for\ninfo to be passed onto Noah #10 1056-950-2006, and son Shem 1558-600-2158, 25 years to #20 Abraham dies and Ishmael is age 89, Isaac is age 75 Gen.25:9; when they bury Abraham.\n\nIshmael-2094-137-2231, and Isaac 2108-180-2288, after Adam.\nJacob-2168-147-2315[Gen.47:9,2... Joseph 2258-110-2368, end of Gen.50:26; \nJob 2293-140-2433, Moses 2433-40-2473-40-2513, Exo.7:7; 12:40,41[430]; Moses age 80 is 40 years in wilderness compiling 5 bible books to 2553, 1513 BCE. Deut.1:3; 34:7;\n\nJudges and priest to Jair 301 years from Moses, from\nJoshua is 300? Judges 11:26; 2553 + 301 = year 2854 After Adam in 89 years, Samuel is age 60= book of Ruth.\nYear 2943 and 1 Samuel to 25:1[Samuel dies]; Gad and Nathan write, 2 Samuel[Moses = 2513 + Acts 13:20; = 450 Samuel age\n60 in 2963, [+ 20 2983 dies]. 16 Samuel + 70 2Sam.5:4,5; king David dies and Psalms comes to be, 4 =] 90 = 3033 and Solomon begans temple 480th year from Moses death 1Ki.6:1; 11:42; 3069 is 997 BCE.\n\nSolomon lives another 36 years to 3069 after Adam and wrote\nProverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon. Kings end 3460 and 70 years later Ezra, Nehemiah, Ester and Mordecai, Haggai and Zechariah books come to be to 433 BCE Malachi.\n\n3069 + 391 years 1 and 2 Kings and I and 2 Chronicles the prophets Isaiah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, until Judah kings end captive to Babylon {#3 Empire in Satan's world], Jeremiah writes Jeremiah and Lamentations, Ezekiel and Daniel write. Daniel in 3460 after Adam and 606 BCE, gives complete prophecy to Jesus cut off in Rome #6 Empire in Satan's world, World get bible {in #7 Empire in Satan's world,].\n\nDan.4:16,23,25,32[7x 360 =] 2520 years beyond Babylon or 5980 after Adam, the world will have the bible and Rev.12:7-12[Rom.16:20; and Heb.1:1-13; enemy Satan, Dan,12:1-13]; Michael cast Satan out of heaven and has a short time until Jesus takes over as the 8th Empire in Satan's world is second coming of Jesus Rev.17:1-6,10-14[Jesus comes in 8th].\nRev.20:1-6; Jesus brings back everything to the original state of newness and perfection it had before sin, some\nmen turn to angels to join him in heaven as priest of God\nand Christ Heb.12:22-24; 1 Cor.15:22-28,50-53; John 6:66; 1Thes.4:15-17; Rev.3:12; 21:1-5;\n\nSo the New Testament had to began after {3460 + 606 after Christ= 4066]. We are 2006 after less KJV 1611 and in 303\nyears was an excepted translation, now any will do, but KJV is 395 years in our world.\nI hope I did not miss something, hard to do so much.
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Yes, I read it and found it very interesting.  The reader should keep in mind, though, that the author does not claim to be anything but human, that is, he does not claim to be God made manifest in a human form like Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, The Bab, and Baha'u'llah.  Therefore, his interpretation of what God is revealing to him is subject to error.  Only the Manifestations of God are perfect and flawless.  Even the highest saint is still human and subject to error.\n\nwww.bahai.org
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Yes, I have read the whole Bible, and much of it repeatedly.  Almost every time I read it I either am enriched by something I may have already learned years ago, or I learn something new and am enriched by that.  \n\nI discovered that preceding my reading with a quick prayer to God that He help me see or understand whatever it is that He wants me to see or understand, He does that, and I learn and benefit even more.\n\nI agree with the following quotes:\n\n"The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrector of all that is evil, in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal concerns of men, and the only book that can serve as an infallible guide to future felicity."  - Noah Webster\n\n"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."  - Theodore Roosevelt\n\nI have also read many books about the Bible and which make reference to the Bible in the areas of history, archeology, astronomy, creation vs. evolution, sociology, etc.\n\nI wouldn't trade the Bible and its wisdom for all the money in the world.  That's how much it means to me in my daily life.
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"The Bible Code," as described in Michael Drosnin's bestselling book, is a supposed "hidden message" in the Bible.  By taking the Old Testament in the original Hebrew and looking at every third letter, every tenth letter, or every 208th letter, supposedly one can find hidden messages.  Mr. Drosnin doesn't believe in God, but believes that some 'higher power' put those messages in there.\n\nSpeaking as one who has knowledge of both the Bible and mathematics, Mr. Drosnin's entire assumption is garbage.\n\nThe Hebrew language has no vowels; therefore, nearly any three-letter grouping would make a word.  With thousands of letters making hundreds of thousands of combinations (by taking different 'skip' sizes), sooner or later, simply by random chance, some meaning could be found.\n\nCritics of Mr. Drosnin have taken works like "Moby Dick" and found similar clusters of "prophetic words."  Mr. Drosnin counters by saying that they are there, but they aren't the same combinations as in the Bible.\n\nPeople like Mr. Drosnin need to spend less time searching for the hidden messages in the Bible, and need to spend more time reading the revealed message of the Bible.
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Which verse/ chapter did you read that? Would really like to know, could speculate on it further.
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I have read this book a couple of times and am looking forward to the movie.\n\nI think it is a great piece of fiction.  Sure, there are some truths in it, but for the most part it is pure fiction.  I have been to many of the sites that he pointed to in the book and some just aren't the way he stated.\n\nI think that it makes baseless claims about Jesus being married and having a child, and a few other things, but that is his perogotive as a writer of fiction.\n\nI am Catholic and am not in a hissy or upset or mad that the book was written, but I am upset and mad when people use it as a basis to trash my Catholic faith.  It is FICTION!  He says so himself!  But regardless of being true or not, I look at it this way, if Jesus was married and had a child, what better roll model for me, as a Catholic father to have?
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<squeeee>  Where'd you get *that bible??  I want one too!!  The bible I read didn't say cool stuff like that.  drat.  I was robbed!
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Why is "The DaVinci Code" not fiction anymore? I missed that announcement...Anyhoo, if you want to hear solid evidence for Christ, I suggest reading The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel. I am reading it right now, so I can't tell you too much about it, but he talks to all sorts of scholars, some Christian Bible Scholars, some atheists like himself. He presents the evidence (eyewitness, documentary, corroborating, rebuttal, scientific, psychological, circumstantial, and fingerprint evidence). I'm still in the chapter about eyewitness evidence, but it is really, really good. Reading this is a great way to get multiple views, so you can choose.
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Yes I have, I have to say that book changed my life. The title can be decieveing.. just a little, because I felt the book was more about spirituality.. I'm not a big reader, and that book was like 300 pages.. it really is a book you cant stop reading, but sometimes you have to put it down cause its pretty deep.. and you need to just stop and obsorb the information. Its a really good, and you dont have to read the 1st book to get the others, I started w/ #4 I think..and it made me look at life very differently.
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A sermon i gave this last Yom Kippur:::\n\nI learned the hard way that Ecclesiastes is Right!\nLet me explain.\n\nMost people wrongly believe that the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes is a downer, a cynical, depressing book, and i have never never felt that way! I always thought that the book was one of the most uplifting books of the Bible, and i guess i need to explain that, as well, first.\n\nThe Book of Ecclesiastes is known for verses like, \n\n'to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the heavens, a time to be born and a time to die...' and:\n\n'there is nothing new under the sun.'  and:\n\n'vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' (horrible translation!)  and:\n\n'the sun also rises.'\n\nThe basic idea to Ecclesiastes is quite simply put, 'a hundred years from now, no one will know the difference.' And most people stop trying to understand the book after this. But they miss the point when they stop! The best way to say this is, 'a hundred years from now, no one will know the difference, AND SO WHAT??' \n\nIn other words, yes, its true, a hundred years from now, no one will know the difference, and so the successes you have now in your life, you must do for your sake, because they are meaningful to You, because they give your life meaning, and not because they will make any difference down the road. \n\nMy wife died 4 and half years ago. She was bright and funny, and clever, and raised two young daughters as best she could from the depth of all her illnesses. And a hundred years from now, no one will know it, but so what? She did it because it gave her pleasure and pride to see her daughters, my children, OUR kids, grow up, full of life and love and self-assured. It gave her life, no matter how short, meaning, and that is the only person it had to be meaningful to, not those who will live in 100 years. \n\nMy brother died almost two years ago. He started the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, yes, that M.I.T. at the age of 15! He was brilliant and he had a deep-seated passion for Justice, and he worked for Justice until he got sick. A hundred years from now, no one will know or care that he was brilliant and passionate, and so what? He did what he did because HE felt it to be important, because that is what gave his life meaning, and that is all, in the scheme of things, that mattered!\n\nMy mom now has lost her memories. She at one time, ran 5 businesses, got Broadway shows to come through Springfield Missouri, raised three sons, appeared on stage with actors now gone, too, and if a hundred years from now no one will know the difference, then so what? She did what was meaningful to her, and that is what is important. \n\nSo long as we remain within the boundaries of right, and what is just, and fair, in accordance with what Gd wants from us, we are free to make our lives as meaningful as we can. That is why i love the book of Ecclesiastes, because it frees us to make our own lives as meaningful as we can, in whatever ways we want, so long as we stay within the boudaries that Gd has set up for us. And that can be scary, because it means it is up to us, and us alone, even as we are free to do whatever we want as we live out our very short life on this earth! Life has no meaning whatsoever outside of whatever meaning WE put into it. It is therefore up to us, and only up to us, alone, to make our lives meaningful to ourselves, and there is, in the final analysis, no one else to blame but ourselves, if we dont put 60 seconds of life into each minute we live!\n\nThat is what i knew a long time ago, when i first read Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Scriptures, but that is what i Realized with so many recent losses in my life. \n\nLife is what we make of it, and if 100 years from now, no one else knows the difference, SO WHAT, WE know the difference, so does Gd, and in the end, that is all who need to know.\n\n                Ecclesiastes 9:7-10 7 Go thy way, eat