I don't like the idea that the future is predictable, meaning our timeline is set in stone. I want to have real intelligense and not just be a machine whos choices depend on physical laws.

Actually, the logic behind the Bible Code is pretty sensible. It's a load of crap, but it's not stupid crap.

But maybe unhappy to learn that you are just an incredibly complex machine.

Yeah but it doesn't matter at all what the 'code' actually is. If someone comes up with the code, or the information, after some event has happened then they cannot say that they predicted it.

It's like sealing a prediction in an envelope and giving it to a friend (so you can't cheat), then telling him to open it after the event.

Anybody can go around saying that such-and-such 'predicted' such-and-such event. But the whole thing is just stupid if the predictions are made after the event. These people say that they've found the special code for understanding the bible (or whatever), and if you use this special code to read the bible then it tells you that this terrible event will happen.
I could go around saying that I've finally found a way to understand what my cat is saying, and my cat actually told me about this tsunami a few weeks ago. But it really means nothing at all unless I tell you about it before the event; otherwise I could easilly have just made up the language after the event, and hense made up the meaning after the event - which is not predicting.
Then on the other end of the spectrum, there are those other idiots that just 'predict' as many things as they can tell people about so that at least some of them come true. Then when one of there predicts is actually correct, people tend to forget about all the mistakes and just be amazed by the correct prediction! (horoscopes often work in this way, along with being a bit fuzzy so the predictions can be interpreted however best suits the reader).