New Mark of the Beast: 616

[Jack]

This is kind of interesting.


http://www.canada.com/national/nati....html?id=702d14ee-4847-4c3d-90ce-46e933232df0

 

[Casshew]

Someone should alert Dark Knight

 

[blueclouds]

Someone should alert Dark Knight

That's DK's APARTMENT NUMBER!!!!!!

He must know something we don't!

 

[CozyReader]

616 -- Say, that looks like a smilie for the devil...two horns two eyes and a nose! Much better than 666 IMO.

This is the part of the article I found most interesting:

Dr. Aitken said, however, that scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someone's name, she said.

"It's a number puzzle -- the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to [the Roman emperor] Nero."

Revelation was actually a thinly disguised political tract, with the names of those being criticized changed to numbers to protect the authors and early Christians from reprisals. "It's a very political document," Dr. Aitken said. "It's a critique of the politics and society of the Roman empire, but it's written in coded language and riddles."

Just another reminder, IMO, not to take the bible literally.

 

[Izzy Mae]

I have always been afraid of that number - call me superstitious...
I can rethink it now

 

[txsvicki]

The oldest copies of verses in the Bible are not the most reliable. The Book of Revelation gives a dire warning to anyone who dares to change the words. To Christians, it is not a political code. Early Christians were not political activists, they were simply followers of Jesus, many who were percecuted and died for their faith.

 

[Nova]

Early Christians were not political activists...

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How do you define "politics"? If you mean the apostles weren't out to overthrow the Emperor, that may be true.

But has there ever been a more political statement than "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven"? (Please forgive my paraphrase. The Bibles are in another room.)