Hard to believe but a "newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament" seems to indicate the "number of the beast may not be 666 as we have all thought. It may actually be 616. Really! Check out this article in the UK newspaper, The Independent.
via Christdot
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that is very interesting .... and not sure how i feel about that ... not that i have anything REALLY to say about it ... but regardless .. gives me the chills.
that sounded weird .. what i mean is ...
if it's real .. my opinion is meaningless ... i think we are all programmed that 666 is the mark of the beast .. would be strange to think of it as something else ...
"They and 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."
THAT is what gives me the chills ....
You're right. It is a bit creepy that Satanists don't seem to have any special association with 666. They just like to use it cuz it creeps out the Christians.
What I think I'll find especially interesting is the kind of discussion this will generate about the infallibility of scripture. But that won't happen until this story starts to get wider coverage that mainstream Christian media begin to pick it up.
i know that over the thousands of years of translations .. something has to have been miscontrued or something ... it just remains to be seen what part ....
really interesting to read about and ponder ...
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