The Bible codes could only have been placed there by God. Therefore, it does serve a purpose in that, it shows the scriptures are truely inspired by God.
That's BS Bronzesnake. The algorithm was developed by a man, and could probably be developed for any number of books. That is hardly evidence of messages being placed there by God. If one was so inclined I'm sure you could find secret messages in the works of Tolkien, Lovecraft, or probably Playboy magazine.
The beauty of the Bible is that the concepts within are made plain to all people, not that there are secret codes for the mystics and academic elites.
You know, you really should read in some detail on the subject before you start throwing out the "BS" bomb.
The following is from
Signiture of GodQuote.
"A skeptical and scientifically minded generation in our lifetime has generally rejected the authority and inspiration of the Bible. There is a greater need for our generation to see evidence and proof that the Bible is the true Word of God. In the sovereign plan of God, it is only in this generation of sophisticated high-speed computers and new techniques of statistical analysis, that men could both discover and fully appreciate this devine message from the past that introduces our skeptical generation to the God of their future.
Dr. David Kazhdan, chairman of the mathematics department at Harvard University, warned those who would casually reject this evidence of Torah codes: "The phenomenon is real. What conclusion you reach from this is up to you."
Israeli scientists wrote a follow-up paper for submission to
Statistical Science, a scientific journal, that insisted that a group of oposing scholars review and challenge their data and examine their computor program before publication. Despite the fact that all of the reviewers held previous beliefs against the inspiration of the Scriptures, the overwhelming evidence and integrity of the data forced the editors to approve the study's scientific accuracy and reluctantly publish the article.
Robert Klass, the editor of
Statistical Science , wrote the following comment about the study: "Our referees were baffled: their prior beliefs made them think the book of Genesis could not possibly contain meaningful references to modern day individuals, yet when the authors carried out additional analyses and checks the effects persisted. The paper is thus offered to
Statistical Science readers as a challenging puzzle." ("Equadistant Letter Sequences in the Book of Genesis,"
Statistical Science, August 1994)
The study concluded that the peculiar sequences of Hebrew letters at equal spaces from each other that formed significant words could not possibly have occured by simple coincidence."
There is tons more corroborating evidence from scientist from Harvard, Yale, and Hebrew University.. I will post it if you want to see it for yourself.
These are not just meaningless, random equal distant words in the Bible, they are detailed, relavent and complicated beyond imagination and mathematical probabillity.
I will also take the time to post some detailed examples if you would like to see them.
