Some 10-15 years ago there was a blockbuster book, the Bible Code. It was written in the style of a report, but really it was a novel.
Its fundamental issue was the idea that the Bible (The Old Testament) is a code that tells everything about the future, the past and the present.
It used the original Hebrew “version” that is called the authentic “Torah” and it claimed that if you take out all the spaces and punctuation out of the text and make it a string of just characters, it can be used as a code.
The idea is bogus, but us, gullible humans grasping for some meaning in life, for some certainty, it was something to investigate.
Why is the idea bogus? Because for thousands of years the text of the Bible was an oral tradition: it was never written down… and something that passed through so many mouths cannot be considered a reliable foundation for a code by its letters.
