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== Kinds of Bible codes ==

== Kinds of Bible codes ==

. A kind of 'Bible code' made popular in the last century is that found by equidistant letter sequencing, or ELS. Papers on these 'ELS codes' were published in recent decades by various mathematicians, including Israeli [[Eliyahu Rips]] and [[Doron Witztum]].

As with any text, there are very many different subtextual patterns in the Biblical text. In the interest of brevity, only a select set of these Biblical subtext patterns will be listed here.

. For many people, the most interesting subtextual pattern in the Bible is that found by listing, in chronological sequence, the meanings of the names of the [[antedeluvian]] [[patriarchs]] given in Genesis chapter 5.

. One kind of 'Bible code' is that found in Equidistant Letter Sequences, or ELS. The 'ELS codes' were made popular in the last century by Israeli mathematician [[Eliyahu Rips]], his associate [[Doron Witztum]], and several others.

. A complex set of interconnecting subtextual patterns is that based on the number 144 (the number of hours in the six days of the [[Creation Week]]. 144 is 'visually' coded as 930 (Adam's age at death), by observing the sum of the three digits (1, 4, and 4), and then observing the differences, or 'distances', between the contiguous digits (1-4, 4-4). This 'visual' encoding is similar to how a perfect circle is visually observed to state [[pi]]. 930 is the unique number of the man who represents all of humanity, and is found at the 111th verse (Genesis 5:5). The unit of 111 verses (an Equidistant Verse Sequence, or EVS) is found to be the key to pinpointing both explicitly and implicitly prophetically pivotal passages in the plain text of the [[Pentateuch]]. So, the 111-verses unit may be called an 'EVS code'. (A criticism of the idea that the Bible contains 'EVS codes' is that the original texts had no explicit verse divisions. But, while it is true that no explicit verse divisions existed in the original texts, and that any such divisions were made only recently in world history, the text itself is not comprised either of random or indifferent linguistic sets. Furthermore, the standing verse divisions are, in general, superior for the purpose of general reference than are all other possible verse divisions.)

 

. A third kind of 'Bible code' is that of a complex set of interconnecting subtextual patterns based on the number 144. 144 is the number of hours in the six days of the [[Creation Week]], and, when 'visually' coded as 930 (Adam's age at death), leads to the Equidistant Verse Sequence (EVS) code of 111. By observing the sum of the three digits (1, 4, and 4), and then observing the differences, or 'distances', between the contiguous digits (1-4, 4-4), the number 144 is seen to 'state' "930" in a way similar to how a perfect circle is visually observed to 'state' "[[pi]]". 930 is the unique number of the man who represents all of humanity, and is found at the 111th verse (Genesis 5:5). The unit of 111 verses is found to be the key to pinpointing both explicit and implicit prophetically pivotal passages in the plain text of the [[Pentateuch]]. (A criticism of the 'EVS code' is in the fact that the original texts had no explicit verse divisions. But, while it is true that no explicit verse divisions existed in the original texts, and that any such divisions made were made only recently in world history, the text itself, like any text, is not comprised either of random or indifferent linguistic sets. Furthermore, while the standing verse divisions of the Bible may not be perfect, the kind of verse division of which they make use is, in general, superior for the purpose of general reference than are all other possible kinds of verse division.)