Can ELS Bible code revelations be trusted?
Before we can effectively answer the question whether we can trust ELS Bible code revelations, we must get a general understanding of what an ELS Bible code is. The technical name for this method of finding words hidden in the text of the Bible is Equidistant Letter Sequences or ELS. To make the code work, you need a computer and a copy of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament. The computer then finds the first letter of a word in the original Hebrew and from that point begins counting off letters until the next letter of the word can be found. The distance between the two letters then becomes the skip code and the computer will then count off the same interval of letters to see if the next letter of the word can be found. Basically the computer starts by skipping every other letter, then every two letters and so on and so on until it finds the right interval. The real dilemma is trying to decide if the revelations from the ELS Bible codes can be trusted. Many people believe they can. I