Damian was Innocent!

[Vulcan]

Typical Christians, can't even get a simple number right... does this mean all those formula to derive 666 from the evil Boosh are wrong too?

Revelation! 666 is not the number of the beast (it's a devilish 616)
By Tom Anderson
01 May 2005


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."

[midnight Target]

DOH!

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Vulcan
Typical Christians, can't even get a simple number right...

Well, at least the Christians don't elect a "holy father" and worship the virgin Mary.

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by NUKE
Well, at least the Christians don't elect a "holy father" and worship the virgin Mary.

Ummmmm does someone want to tell Nuke - I don't have the heart.

[WMLute]

Originally posted by Vulcan
Ummmmm does someone want to tell Nuke - I don't have the heart.

naw let's just point our fingers and laugh at 'em.

no wait...  a pointy stick.  let's poke 'em w/ a pointy stick!!

[Pooh21]

pokes Nuke

hmmm not so fun as the old school poking with a blunt stick.


of course wed have tosubmerge Nuke in a conveinent body of water first

[Hangtime]

Cathylicks

[Slash27]

Where's Fubar?

[culero]

Originally posted by Vulcan
Ummmmm does someone want to tell Nuke - I don't have the heart.

There's always one in every crowd

culero (LMAO!)

[Pongo]

70 % of Nukes dont know that Catholosism is a sect of Christianity.

[Nefarious]

"The new fragment from the Book of Revelation, written in ancient Greek and dating from the late third century"

???

Im no expert, but something tells me this is wrong.

[NUKE]

Originally posted by Pongo
70 % of Nukes dont know that Catholosism is a sect of Christianity.

Yeah, I know that technically, Catholics are Christian. However, when someone mentions "Catholics" and "Christians", most people in America understand what the difference is.

If I say "Christian evangelist", do you think of a television preacher or the Catholic Pope?

Catholics fashioned themselves into whole new cult in my opinion.

[slimm50]

Originally posted by NUKE
Yeah, I know that technically, Catholics are Christian. However, when someone mentions "Catholics" and "Christians", most people in America understand what the difference is.

If I say "Christian evangelist", do you think of a television preacher or the Catholic Pope?

Catholics fashioned themselves into whole new cult in my opinion.

I'm Protestant, myself, but.....

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by NUKE
Yeah, I know that technically, Catholics are Christian. However, when someone mentions "Catholics" and "Christians", most people in America understand what the difference is.

If I say "Christian evangelist", do you think of a television preacher or the Catholic Pope?

Catholics fashioned themselves into whole new cult in my opinion.

Technically?

Keep digging that hole nuke

[john9001]

i thought 90210 was the number of the beast.