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Sorry, wrong number - you want southwest Michigan.... |
I wonder what Van Impe and Rexella have to say about this.
http://www.rense.com/general64/616.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=3D634679
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Revelation! 666 Is Not The Number Of The Beast
By Tom Anderson
The Independent - UK
5-1-5
A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the
New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes,
theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television
evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's
actually the far less ominous 616.
The new fragment from the Book of Revelation, written in ancient
Greek and dating from the late third century, is part of a hoard
of previously unintelligible manuscripts discovered in historic
dumps outside Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Now a team of expert
classicists, using new photographic techniques, are finally
deciphering the original writing.
Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual
Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks
that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. He
said: "This is an example of gematria, where numbers are based on
the numerical values of letters in people's names. Early
Christians would use numbers to hide the identity of people who
they were attacking: 616 refers to the Emperor Caligula."
The Book of Revelation is traditionally considered to be written
by John, a disciple of Jesus; it identifies 666 as the mark of the
Antichrist. In America, the fundamentalist Christian right often
use the number in sermons about the coming Apocalypse.
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. Mind you, if they do switch to 616 being the number of the
beast then we'll start using that."
=A92005 Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd.
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| Title: Re: Sorry, wrong number - you want southwest Michigan.... |
08 May 2005 07:05:13 AM |
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TV's wrote:
A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the
New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes,
theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television
evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's
actually the far less ominous 616.
I read that 616 was the actual number at least 15 years ago, don't remember
where but this is not new news, at least not to me.
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Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning.
A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
- Maynard James Keenan
The belief in the Christian god... is an appalling nightmare. I reject
the notion that the whole universe was created by this kind of evil
creature who would create such a thing. - Anthony Flew, March 22, 2005
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