Monday, October 20, 2008

Bible Code

Last week I finished reading a book titled Bible Code by Michael Drosnin. Judul bukunya cukup mendeskripsikan isi buku. Intinya si pengarang helped by Eli Rips (a mathematician)menemukan ada ramalan2 masa depan yg tersembunyi di dlm Bible. Ramalan yg ditemukan termasuk gempa di Cina, pembunuhan John. F. Kennedy, etc.

Few interesting things are Michael Drosnin is not a Christian. Yah, bs dikatakan atheis. Dy gak percaya kalo Bible Code itu ditulis Tuhan. Beda dg partner-nya, Rips, yg emang bkn atheis.

Trus ada 2 quote yg interesting jg:

1. "The world was created twice - it was first conceived from the point of view of absolute judgment, right and wrong. Then God saw the world could not exist this way, that there was no room for human imperfection, and he added mercy."(Bible Code, Michael Drosnin, page 102)

Knp quote ini interesting for me? Krn ini memperkuat philosphy-ku bahwa dunia itu tdk hitam-putih. Kita bs jadi manusia abu2. Justru Tuhan memberikan that grey area utk manusia. Memberikan ruang utk berbuat kebaikan as well as berbuat dosa at the same time. Manusia bkn malaikat yg 100% baik. Cm manusia hrs slalu berusaha berbuat baik.

2. "Quantum physics' Uncertainty Principle: the more precisely you measured what, the less precisely you could measure when"

Ini interesting krn ini adl salah satu teori ilmiah yg membuktikan segala sesuatu gak bs dijawab dg logika doang. And somehow teori ini jg mengajarkan kita utk bersabar. Kita mungkin tau apa yg akan terjadi, cm kapan terjadinya kan kita gak tau, jd sabar aja... Hahahaha!

Overall, menurut aku buku ini bkn bacaan yg ringan. Aku sempet stress jg bacanya krn byk ramalan2 yg bikin depressed such as world war III, comet yg mo nabrak bumi, dan bencana2 alam. Aku gak tau buku ini terbit di Indo ato gak. Tp ini buku memang interesting. Skrg aku lg baca Bible Code II. Kata temenku yg uda baca, Bible Code II gak semenarik Bible Code yg pertama.

Nanti kalo aku uda slesai baca aku update lg.

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