There is no pi encoded in the bible. It's not supported by mainstream Theology. It was debunked decades ago;
But as we’ll see, experts both scientific and religious deemed the whole business to be bogus.
The story in brief: The traditional Jewish practice of “gematria” assigns a number to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet to calculate the numerical value of a word. A variation originated with Orthodox Rabbi Michael Weissmandel, who moved from Eastern Europe to the U.S. following the Nazi Holocaust and died in 1957. He looked for patterns through Equidistant Letter Sequences (ELS) counted by hand, for instance seeing what a word produced by every 50th letter in a text might show.
Intrigued by this, Eliyahu Rips of Israel’s Hebrew University worked with two fellow mathematicians to manipulate the Hebrew text of the book of Genesis into lines of various lengths. They reported discovering the names of 32 leading rabbis across Jewish history located on the grid near their dates of birth, death, or both.
After a major scientific journal rejected the trio’s article about this, it was accepted in 1994 by the respected, peer-reviewed Statistical Science as “a challenging puzzle” for discussion. Drosnin picked up the idea to seek supposed hidden predictions of modern events and sold the book on his findings to an establishment publisher, Simon and Schuster. The rest is history — or hysteria.
In “dramatic confirmation,” Drosnin wrote, one word conjunction meant Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin would be assassinated. Drosnin said he even tried unsuccessfully to get a warning to Rabin two months before this actually happened. Unfortunately for the cause, Drosnin later announced that the Code prophesied an atomic world war would begin in Israel in 2000 or 2006 and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would also be assassinated.
Wry computer scientist Brendan McKay of Australian National University was among those saying forget the Bible. This trick works with any old text. He processed Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick” and located references to the murders of Lincoln, Trotsky, Indira Gandhi, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy and Princess Diana. Then those 32 famous rabbis popped up in Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” Another wag manipulated Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and found “Civil War,” “Battlefield,” “Lee, “Meade,” “Grant” and, oh yes, “Booth.” Some had similar fun with the text of “The Bible Code” itself.
'The Bible Code': What Was That All About, Other Than A Headline-Grabbing Pseudo-Mystery? (religionunplugged.com)
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