It's not 666........It's six hundred, three score and six. While that equations does infact = 666 (600 + 60 + 6)........the equation is given, not the answer which is erroniously mentioned by Christians.
it does not remain the same. The numbers are 600, 60 and 6. so how do they coorilate with your "special meanings to numbers" idea you posted? what is the special meaning of 600 and 60? you only posted 5,6 and 7 as examples. Six is not present three times in a number....... the number 6 is present as part of three seperate numbers which also inlcude just as many zeros, three.
The Hebrew and Greek alphabet does not have separate characters or alphabets for numbers and letters. Letters are also used as numbers. So each letter is a numerical value.
The Hebrew equivalent of our "w" is the letter "vav" or "waw". The numerical value of vav is 6. So the English "www" transliterated into Hebrew is "vav vav vav", which numerically is 666.
Not carrying this or presenting it as the truth, just a hypothesis based on that above thought. 3=emphasis 6=imperfection so 666 presented as such could be emphasis on imperfection.
However this does not account for 600 60 6, as presented by Evil Dead, which I have no debate with, simply remarking on the initial post. Is there a meaning for the zeroes? if so, there are three of them there too... Which would suggest an emphasis on whatever the biblical connotation of 0 was, as well...
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I've found out something about 666:
The numbers in the name of the AntiChrist, when he rises up to earth, are supposed to add up to 666. There is a book I've read, all about the end of the world and all, with the AntiChrist. And his human name is: Levi Xu Dangchao. DCLXVI.
I checked it on this:http://www . novaroma . org / via_romana / numbers.html
if you ask me, 666 = a number and nothing more, its only meaning is that human spend too much time in make believe land. But thats me, niave and ill witted as always. but as yourself, would you accept me anyother way?
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I don't but Historians reckon that 666 stands for letters, and those letters became Nero...i must admit i post in ignorance, i dont know the full story!
666 is commonly known as the Number of the Beast in Revelations. Some maintain that recent discoveries show that 616 could possibly be the correct number of the beast. Some early manuscripts do contain 616 instead. In May 2005 it was reported that scholars at Oxford University using advanced imaging techniques had been able to read previously illegible portions of an early (third century) version of the Book of Revelation, part of its Oxyrhynchus collection of papyri. The fragment gives the Number of the Beast as 616.
Scholars now believe the number in question has very little to do with the devil. It was actually a complicated numerical riddle in Greek, meant to represent someone' s name. It' s a number puzzle, the majority opinion seems to be that it refers to Nero, as Grand_Moff_Gav already mentioned.
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I don't know...the person who wrote the book I mentioned had really been doing their research...I think it's difficult to know, really, because either you're a scientist determined to prove that there is no such thing as the Devil, or you're a Christian determined to prove that there IS.
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Sep 1st, 2006 11:08 AM
whats the problem?
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