Anyone ever heard of The Bible Code??? [View All]

[SmileyBoy]

It's supposedly this word-find type deal in the Ancient Hebrew-written Bible that some people say has explanations of all the major world events hidden in its text. I was watching some History Channel thing on it a couple weeks ago, and I was confronted by these notions:

1) EVERYTHING written in the Bible Code that has been discovered about a particular event was discovered AFTER the event occurred, with the one exception of the assassination of Yitzakh Rabin. The text that explains 9-11 wasn't found until after 9-11, the text about the Iraq War wasn't discovered until this past spring, etc.

2) They say that the Bible Code is NOT a good means to predict the future, because anything that we try to find may be wrong, because we have no inherent nowledge of future events.

Now here's something interesting, and it's kind of what I want to talk about: There was a vague passage of text that read "Earth Annhilated - Comet - 2012". I'm assuming this means they say the end of the world will happen in 2012 (bullshit). Now as a Muslim, I am forced to dismiss that prediction as utter nonsense, simply because as a Muslim, I believe that only God will know when the world will end, and that NO HUMAN will be able to predict it. I believe that it's nonsense, but like I may have mentioned before, I have some kind of an irrational comet/asteroid fear, and this kind of turns into an irrational obsession that can bother me.

Even a guy several years ago went on Oprah talking about the Bible Code, and mentioning this passage about a comet annhilating Earth in 2012. Well, if something like that was being talked about in the open in front of a national audience, with Oprah Winfrey, with millions of people watching, then as a Muslim, I'm reassured that God will NOT have that event come true, for the reasons I stated above.

But my irrational side has been knawing at me the past few days, and I just need to let go of it. I mean, in 1999, millions of people who not necessarily believed Y2K/the end of the world in 2000 were still talking about it/the potential of it happening. And that fact alone made me know that it wouldn't happen.

Look, I think of it this way: There was a movie where one guy said, "If I kill you, it'll be when you least expect it." That's exactly my feeling about humans/God and the end of the world. The very fact alone that some scientists/theologists (and maybe many people who watched the few TV shows they were on) are dicussing this passage of text IN ITSELF means that it's not gonna happen. I hope you understand what I'm saying.

I guess I just had to rant a little bit. While I truly believe that that comet passage was nonsense, I still need to get over this irrational fear. It's been biting at me lately.