"The Torah codes debate forces us to face this issue squarely. There are those who assert that it has been statistically proven that there are codes in the Torah so it can be used as a first step to get some non-religious Jews to start thinking seriously about yiddishkeit. But the virtually unanimous opinion of those professional mathematicians and statisticians who have carefully examined the evidence is that there has been no scientific proof of the codes." - Barry Simon (Professor)
Drosnin, Michael. The Bible Code. New York: Touchstone Publishing, 1998.
The concept of hidden codes in the bible, no matter how much apparent scientific/mathematic research is applied, is ridiculous to me. But the idea of taking a religious text and extracting a new meaning and using it for one's own intentions is something I can completely relate to. Just as I am taking my own experience of the bible and treating it with tinges of irreverence and irony through artistic expression, those who study bible code are taking the religious text and using it to express their own ideas (ideas which they claim surface from pages of the bible). And just as I find it to be an absurd, pointless endeavor, it is most likely that any person working in such a field would find my work absurd and pointless. It is the root of it that I find interesting (the bible as source material) and the bizarre spectrum of expression it has wrought.
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