It is contemptable, arrogant and low minded to threaten a fellow human being with hell because he or she fails to believe what you believe.
You are indeed as poor a student of the teaching of your own god as you are of math.
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Aren’t you kinda sorta doing that with all this truth-in-numbers stuff? Maybe God just doesn’t like round numbers. It really seems, after all, like this convoluted mathing-means-proof stuff would be a lot easier to peddle if He had.
Too clever by half!
Wait. Half of 666 is 333. Three times three times three is 27. Twenty-seven is three squared times 3, which is written 3[sup]2[/sup] x 3… a 3 and a 2. Multiply the number that appears more often by the number of times it appears. Three appears twice, so 3 x 2, which equals 6. Drop a 6 from 666, and you have 66. A statute mile is 5280 feet. Divide that by 66, and you get 80. Eighty times The Number of the Beast is 53,280 Five plus three plus two plus eight plus zero is 18.
Eighteen is three sixes… 666! :eek:
You are the Antichrist! :eek:
“[It]ain’t like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova, and that’d end your trip real quick, wouldn’t it?”
¿Qué?
What does that have to do with what I said? If you can’t respond to arguments and instead just throw out those classic religious, saccharine deflections, Great Debates is not the place for you.
Anyway, let’s go back to this:
Behold, the Devil cites scripture for his own purpose:
I got about three minutes into the video before my absurdity tolerance level was reached.
As an incidental, I’m reminded of why 24 and 60 are so significant that they found their way into timekeeping - they lend themselves to easy fractions. I’d read a bit about Babylonian number systems when I was a kid and I admired how well they worked if you hadn’t invented zero yet.
So, you’re saying that by carefully observing celestial phenomenon, we can ascertain certain facts about the future?
Funny, I always thought astrology was supposed to be a sin.
Contrary to popular belief, I have no power to put someone in hell or keep them out. I can only warn them.
Astronomy not astrology is very Biblical and not a sin.
Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
But not too carefully: you want to have nice round numbers like 360, because that’s a factor of 144,000, and 365 is not.
(Though perhaps you should round to 370 days in a year instead, mutiply that by 36 [the number of inches in a yard] and divide by 20 [the number of hundredweight in a ton] – and you get 666!)
Astronomy suggests the universe is far larger and far older than the bible-writers could imagine, actually.
God foreknew all things. As one example, he knew before he ever created the world what the order of the letters in the English alphabet would be. And using this knowledge, he has ensured that we would all receive a message about you through your name, lest we listen to you and be damned.
For substituting in numbers in order for the letters in your name, we get the following list:
20
18
5
1
20
The sum of these numbers is 64. That number is the sixth power of two.
The product of these numbers is 36,000. That number is the thousandth multiple of the square of six.
Finally, take the individual letters again, using each exactly one time, and see how no matter how you look at them, they provide the third six revealing your master’s identity:
20 - 20 = zero times six.
18 = three times six.
5 + 1 = one times six.
If you expect anyone on seeing this not to immediately shun you as the devil’s representative, you will need to explain convincingly why one should not listen to these mathematical proofs yet should listen to yours.
Oh the travesty, those dang Mayans and their zero.:smack:
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The idea that the moon is a countdown timer to some divine event is not astronomy.
Also, you should be careful not to confuse criticism of your math with a rejection of Christianity as a whole. While there are certainly a lot of atheists on this board who have no truck with religion as a whole, the vast majority of practicing Christians would likely also reject your ideas about comparing arbitrary values of randomly selected objects in the solar system to derive numbers that kinda-sorta look like numbers found in the Bible. Particularly if they have a rudimentary education in either mathematics, astronomy, or, for that matter, Christian theology.
“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.” -Mark 13:32
Oh I can smell the the desperation getting stronger with every reply. The ‘nice round number’ came from the Bible, I didn’t just make it up, google it.:smack:
Hey, here’s a wacky spitball-out-of-left-field idea. If God’s existence is provable (with math!) then it should be apparent to anyone who understands math, right? No blind faith required? So why not, as an experiment, we make it illegal to tell any child under ten about religion in any way. If God is the one true god and he’s provable (with math!) then when the kids are old enough to understand math, they’ll understand God.
The foul smell of the desperate offends my nostrils. Firstly you are dishonestly misrepresenting my stance of the countdown timer, I merely stated it was a possibility that I can’t, by right, rule out. However the moon was to be used as sign and that is in fact astronomy.
Luk_21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
So with that in mind I have no idea what the point of your reply was, you’ve probably spoke in ignorance again.
BTW I don’t mix up the believers with the non-believers, the non-believers sloppily tip their hat as to which side of the fence they are on with their discord for God, not my math, thank you.
Finally it says no man knows the day nor hour, but doesn’t say no man will know the year nor season.
Excuse me, but Jesus knew perfectly well that the year is 354 days long - except for leap years, which are 384. I have no idea where you got those other, pagan numbers from.
You understand that the equation is correct, right?
If you understand that the equation is correct, why would you think its being true has any less significance than the truth of any other equation?