616 the number of the beast _\m/

[Robert]

This is really old news.
All good studies I've read about revelations 13 say that some texts say it's 616 but mosts texts say 666.
apparantly another text has been found that reads 616 and some ignorant journalist jumped on it.

Besides that, 666 is not the number of satan. It's the number of men. Oh, and 616 is most obviously a copyist error.

And if you wonder if the bible is infallable, it's not. it's written by fallable humans.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by CyberShy
And if you wonder if the bible is infallable, it's not. it's written by fallable humans.

Fundy protestants have yet to understand it.

[Robert]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Fundy protestants have yet to understand it.

I've been called a fundy more then once on this board.
Though that means nothing since according to some people everybody who disagrees with them is a fundamentalist.

Oh, I should make clear that I believe that the message of the bible is infallable though.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by CyberShy
I've been called a fundy more then once on this board.
Though that means nothing since according to some people everybody who disagrees with them is a fundamentalist.

Oh, I should make clear that I believe that the message of the bible is infallable though.

If you believe that the message is universal, but that the wording, and specific details aren't, then you're not a fundamentalist. By my definition at least.

I mean, do you think that it is God's word (and thus right) to stone adulterous women to death at the gates of the city?

[Robert]

Originally posted by Spiffor

I mean, do you think that it is God's word (and thus right) to stone adulterous women to death at the gates of the city?

I think we're departing from the topic.
Though, to answer your question. In those days it was the best way to deal with problems in society.
Though it's not applicable to our time.

But the bible even clearly states that itself.

[Dinner]

satanists responded coolly to the new "Revelation". Peter Gilmore, High Priest of the Church of Satan, based in New York, said: "By using 666 we're using something that the Christians fear. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the beast then we'll start using that."

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Dracon II
Yanzi was telling me that 666 is a lucky number in China...

Rainbows are upside down in China as well.

[Dinner]

What a drab and uninteresting looking city. Is there no color in China as well?

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Oerdin
What a drab and uninteresting looking city. Is there no color in China as well?

Of course not. The first thing we communists do when taking over a country is remove all the color.

[Bereta_Eder]

Don't the numbers signify (greek) letters?
Or was it the letters were translated to numbers?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara

Of course not. The first thing we communists do when taking over a country is remove all the color.

I believe it.

Skopje & Pristina were full of those dull unpainted concrete boxes which typified communist architecture. It's like even paint cost to much money for those commies.

[Alex]

Oxyrhynchus

Is there a place called Oxyrhynchus?

[BlackCat]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Don't the numbers signify (greek) letters?
Or was it the letters were translated to numbers?

Something close to that :

http://www.felicity.com.au/paper-end.htm (actually a quite funny page)

In the Greek numerical system, the first eight characters of the alphabet, plus a special symbol for 6, represented the number 1 to 9. As John, then, sat working at his writings on the island of Patmos (Revelation 1:9), he looked out towards Asia Minor and saw within his purview one of the strong contenders for the faith of the people, the cult of Attis, a cult, like Mithraism, especially abhorrent to Christians for it so nearly resembled their own! The number 616, tattooed on the foreheads and hands of stubborn idolaters, translated, meant ATTIS (the Greek letters adding up as 1+300+300+5+10 = 616). It was even given in the dative case, as would be required in a votive inscription.

[Bereta_Eder]

what the hell?

[St Leo]

Hmm.

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