I just finished watching a television show on the Bible Code. The Bible Code is believed to be a mathematical system, in which you count the letters of the torah, and then, like a crossword puzzle, pull words out of the block of letters you get. Sounds confusing. Well it is. Those words then seem to come together to create prophecies and even tell the future, by bunching common words together. Sounds iffy. Well it is. Sounds controversial. Yeah, it’s that also. But I don’t want to argue whether or not the bible code exists, I’m far more interested in why we care.
Why do we go looking for a code like this, and why, once we find one, is it so intriguing? I believe it’s because we, as humans, all yearn for one thing. Purpose. When we find something like a code, that in a way makes sense of all the things going on in our world, and has the potential to tell our future, we feel drawn to it because it makes us feel like we have a path, it’s a meaning for our own existence.
As I watched this show, and all these people argued for their sides of the story, I was drawn to the fact that we are even having this argument at all. It’s so interesting to think about how much we love prophecy. Even if we think it’s completely unrealistic, we can’t help but listen. We can’t help but be shocked by those that for one reason or another come true, or others that frighten us. It’s classic human nature to want to know what our futures are, what the stars may hold for us, and I think it plays into our eternal drive and need for a purpose in life. Once again, it makes people feel like we have a path, a destiny, that we aren’t just wandering the earth blindly. In a way, if someone says they can predict our future, whether we believe it or not, it makes us feel like we have a future to look forward to.
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