I still think looking in the Bible is going in the wrong direction. I'll now do a continuation of my
Bullshit!-style experiment in which I only used Revelations. For this part, I will thumb through the Bible, counting to 3, close my eyes and drop my finger on the page and read the nearest verse.
Phase 1:
Ezekiel 14:15 wrote:If I were to cause wild beasts to prowl the land, depopulating it so that it became a waste, traversed by none because of the wild beasts.
Sound to anyone else like a description of the Flood?
Phase 2:
Sirach 12:9 wrote:Dispute not about what is your concern, in the strife of the arrogant take no part.
A bit more obscure, but it DOES mention to ignore a concern, just like AR's superior told us to do.
Phase 3: (This one actually contains spoilers of Fall of Reach)
1 Samuel 25:1 wrote:[spoiler]Samuel died, and all of Israel gathered to mourn him; they buried him in his home in Ramah.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]Obviously a reference to Sam-034's death. Israel represents John and Kelly, and "his home" represents the battlefield, where all SPARTANs are most comfortable.[/spoiler]
The Bible is very easy to use to draw parallels because of the vague and cryptic language. It's the exact same thing as Nostradomus' writings. And, it's very similar to the technique of people who allegedly talk to the dead. The tchnique most use is called "cold reading" and it works because of how vague it is. The speaker will say something vague like, "Your son is telling me to tell you about the flower," to which the one being read might say, "OMG! He's talking about my mother's flower necklace!" Well, no, he's talking about the flower. You WANT there to be a connection, so you make one. I'll use Onyx Flame's example. He connects the scroll to the Index. It kind of fits, but which parts?
Revelations 10:8 wrote:Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.
"Take that scroll" references what Guilty Spark wanted to the Master Chief to do. "...lies in the sea and on the land." The Library represents land, and the Flood represents sea, right? But, this is reaching. Unless you were to make these connections on your own, it would just look like another Bible passage. As I demonstrated, pretty much any block of text can be made to look like it references something it really doesn't. It just takes imagination and the right amount of spin to connect them.