# The Bible Code: Anything about WTC attacks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 15, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731 "2001-09-15T00:59:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msc75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@msc75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msc75)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/1 "2001-09-15T00:59:28Z")
I’ve heard a lot of discussion lately about the faux Nostrodamus predictions, but not seen anything on what the Bible Code has to say about it? I’ve read part of the book before, but I’m not familiar with it. Any experts? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/2 "2001-09-15T01:02:52Z")
Oh, I’m sure we can count on someone to “find” a “reference” to this in the “Bible Code” _now_. A little advance notice from some of these alleged prophets and seers and psychics would be kind of nice, though. Quit telling us stuff we already know, guys. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/3 "2001-09-15T01:03:17Z")
I am certain that it does, as the “Bible Code” hucksters are as unscrupulous as any Nostradamus interpreter. Give them a few days to come up with something that sounds good. ---
**Author:** ![Ennui](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ennui/32/3396_2.png) [@Ennui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ennui)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/4 "2001-09-15T01:25:03Z")
Actually, I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the Bible codes. In the book of Daniel, a great work of prophesy in it’s own right, if we start with the third chapter and take the 12th, 38th, 42nd, 58th, 73rd, 82nd, 91st and 103rd letter, it spells out bin Laden. Coincidence??? ---
**Author:** ![msc75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@msc75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msc75)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/5 "2001-09-15T02:41:13Z")
As far as prophecy/prediction sources go, this book is actually frightfully accurate. That’s why I’m wondering if there’s any relevance with the current events. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/6 "2001-09-15T02:42:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by msc75 \* > **As far as prophecy/prediction sources go, this book is actually frightfully accurate.** Cites? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/7 "2001-09-15T03:00:48Z")
> [@](#): > > As far as prophecy/prediction sources go, this book is actually frightfully accurate. Piffle! [What’s up with the “Bible Code”? 15-May-2001](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mbiblecode.html) [Other tricks in the Bible Code](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=71042) [Bible Codes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=80325) ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/8 "2001-09-15T03:02:45Z")
> [@](#): > > As far as prophecy/prediction sources go, this book is actually frightfully accurate. So what’s going to happen next? ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/9 "2001-09-15T04:20:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ennui \* > \*\*… > > Coincidence??? \*\* yep. I’m sure if you looked at “The Moby Dick Code” or “The War and Peace Code” or even “The Penthouse Letters 1980-2000 Code” you’d find similar “prophecies”. Until the predictions are made _before_ anything happens, it’s nothing more than skip coding until you find what you’re looking for. [Some](http://www.csicop.org/si/9711/bible-code.html) [Links](http://www.csicop.org/si/9803/bible-code.html) ---
**Author:** ![Chickenhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/10 "2001-09-15T06:22:03Z")
…so frightfully accurate, in fact, that cryptographers were just too terrified to, you know, figure out that this was going to happen ahead of time. When I was in fifth grade, and I didn’t want my teacher to read the notes that we passed around in class, I just wrote them in matrices of Hebrew characters. Ms. Chokesondick got knock-kneed just seeing them thangs. ---
**Author:** ![Ennui](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ennui/32/3396_2.png) [@Ennui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ennui)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/11 "2001-09-16T01:30:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jk1245 \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Ennui \* > > \*\*… > > > > Coincidence??? \*\* > > yep. > I’m sure if you looked at “The Moby Dick Code” or “The War and Peace Code” or even “The Penthouse Letters 1980-2000 Code” you’d find similar “prophecies”. > > … Gawd, I never thought it was a good joke, but at least I thought it was recognizable. Too much time with the great Randini has made your humor disappear. ---
**Author:** ![ArturoBandini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@ArturoBandini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArturoBandini)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/12 "2001-09-18T00:17:41Z")
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**Author:** ![Mr.Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@Mr.Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Child)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/13 "2001-09-18T00:28:23Z")
I guess that this is strong proof that, simply by changing the order of the letters in the Bibel, one can spell out anything at all! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/14 "2001-09-18T00:56:14Z")
What’s even more amazing than the Bible Code is the _Alphabet Code_: > [@](#): > > A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z This code reveals everything! By selecting the second letter, the ninth letter, the fourteenth letter, the twelth letter, the first letter, the fourth letter, the fifth letter, the fourteenth letter again, the second letter again, the fifteenth letter, the thirteenth letter, the second letter for a third time, the twenty-third letter, the twentieth letter, and the third letter of this amazing matrix, it clearly spells out > [@](#): > > B I N L A D E N B O M B W T C The odds of this pattern happening by coincidence alone are _ **1,677,259,342,285,725,925,376 to 1!!!** _ Further prophecies will be left as an exercise for the reader. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/15 "2001-09-18T01:53:41Z")
[hijack] **MEBuckner** , and everyone else: Before today, I have never heard anyone talking about a Bible code. Then, today, that “innocence” was shattered. In my speech class, one of the students phrases during his introductory speech was “oh yea, and if you don´t think the Bible has any relevance in today´s world, think again, because it tells about the destruction of WTC”. Maybe not in the exact words, but something very close. I have never heard a human being express this way…I was shocked. A sign of things to come, probably.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/16 "2001-09-18T03:18:56Z")
**KarlGrenze** , I just found in the Bible matrix that you were going to post that. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/17 "2001-09-18T12:13:41Z")
[Yet another review of The Bible Code](http://www.nonfictionreviews.com/article1033.html), by me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/18 "2001-09-18T14:07:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ArturoBandini \* > \*\*Here it is, friends: > > [http://www.greaterthings.com/News/911/PressReleases/00010913.htm](http://www.greaterthings.com/News/911/PressReleases/00010913.htm) > \*\* What’s extra great about that news story, is I noticed they found a lot of stuff in Isaiah. Isaiah isn’t part of what they’re supposed to be searching, according to the Drosnin book. They couldn’t find anything in the Pentateuch, so they just kept going! ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bible-code-anything-about-wtc-attacks/81731/19 "2001-09-18T14:29:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ennui \* > Gawd, I never thought it was a good joke, but at least I thought it was recognizable. > > Too much time with the great Randini has made your humor disappear. oops. Sorry **Ennui**! Guess I’ve heard too many freaks make claims like yours and seriously believe them.