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Originally Posted by SatansCandy
Have you noticed the letter W in Hebrew = 6? In the Bible 666 is described as the number of man not Satan?s number. The Internet is a man made global communication network (WWW=666). What does mankind primarily use the Internet for?
?80 percent of Internet use is related to pornography? ? Yahoo News
?In the last days they will walk after their own ungodly lusts. They will be lovers of pleasure (pornography and fornication) more than lovers of God? ? 2 Timothy
Have you noticed that knowledge has exploded in the past 100 years?? Invention of: electricity, computers, airplanes and automobiles.
?At the time of the end knowledge shall be greatly increased? ? Daniel 12 500BC
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But, more importantly, have you noticed that Revelation was written in Greek (not Hebrew) for a Greek-speaking audience?
And have you noticed that in a few of the ancient manuscripts, the number is given as 616 rather than 666? One of the writers above alluded to this verse, where the ancient, existing, manuscripts simply disagree.
Finally, the best translation that I've seen from the original Greek says at Revelation 13:18 that the number stands for "a person" and not an Internet protocol.
You'd think that, given what we see at Pompeii and Herculaneum and in archeology from every corner of the ancient world, that pornography was not exactly a rare thing in New Testament times. All the indications are that it was more ubiquitous in all the cities of the Roman empire, in public places, than it is today. The Romans and Greeks were never prudes, and there's no sign that the Jews were, either. You'd think that if He thought there was an important moral teaching to be made about pornography that he might have announced it during three years of preaching, and that the evangelists might have thought it important enough to record, but there's not a word about it. (He does condemn sexual intrigue against married women and says that the adultery starts when the lusting for that woman starts, but he's silent about porn.)
Only hundreds of years after New Testament times did any of the writers get around to talking about pornography. That's because they had bigger fish to fry. This amounts to about 39 cents worth of genuine Christian theology.