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666... err maybe not

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."
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Priceless!
 
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."
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Like I said, Satanism is just a parody of Christianity.
 
While they may have just discovered new evidence for it, the 616 theory is not new. I've heard it before. Or I'm delusional. I'll try to find a link.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
So is everyone who lives in the 616 area code now a Satanist?
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Just referenced my friendly Yellow Pages and the 616 area code is in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, area.

As an Ohio Buckeye fan, it doesn't suprise me a bit that the Beast lives in Michigan.....:p
 
"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."
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Very interesting. I had not known that other early manuscripts also had 616, and that it was a gematria for Caligula. (Gematrias are still a big deal for some Jews, especially the more othodox.) The reason I find it interesting is that 666 is a gematria for Nero.

Is it possible that John labelled Caligula the antichrist, but that later transcriibers updated the reference to Nero, who was a later and more viscious persecutor of Christians?

And then of course, with the sands of time, the original meaning was forgotten and people thought the book referred to the future, instead of the present/past.
 
Meadmaker said:
Is it possible that John labelled Caligula the antichrist, but that later transcriibers updated the reference to Nero, who was a later and more viscious persecutor of Christians?
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Since a variant spelling of Nero adds also to 616 and the text of the Revelation fits better to him (especially the part about the mortally wounded head that recovered; there was a widspread belief that Nero hadn't really committed suicide), I think that the more probable alternative is that the author referred to Nero from start.
 
You've upset me now.

My phone number contains the sequence 666.

Interestingly, my brothers phone number contains the sequence 4004 (the year of creation)
 
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