Not missing anything.
This is wrong. Given enough variations of chaseiros and yeseiros, that “codes” will be found in some of them is a mathematical certainty. Certainly not a “impossibility”.
True, but we are not given many variations, just the one we have. So your point is wrong.
You really dont find that strange at all? That chazal’s Torah didnt have codes but only ours does?
If you find that strange (I don’t have an opinion) so posit that it’s there as well. Mah nafshach.
I am looking at codes in moby dick as we speak. That the proponets deny what I see with my eyes right now, says a lot about this quackery
Whose codes, whose methodology, which proponents? I’m maskim that Drosnin is a quack.
It is not impossible. It is a certainty. It is one thing if we decide beforehand what we are looking for say “Barack Obama” but to go on a fishing hunt through 304,805 letters in the Torah after weve decided what we are looking for. B Obama, Barack Obama, B H Obama, Barack hussein Obama, President Obama, President B obama, (dont forget we dont need vowels in hebrew). The probablity of finding something that we can attach meaning to aproaches 1! a certainty!
For the third (fourth? fifth?) time, I don’t have an opinion on the actual math. There are apparently experts on either side.