The actual Bible is tremendously more interesting than the "Bible verses" that most evangelicals interact with the Bible as Although, I guess, it would have to be, because it's hard to imagine anything less interesting than those anodyne lists of pearls of wisdom
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Replying to @arthur_affect @anthrodiva and
There's still Proverbs for that
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Replying to @mssilverstein @anthrodiva and
The most interesting thing about actually reading all the Proverbs without a pastor looking over your shoulder is how many of them are genuinely fucked up by modern standards and how many of them just straight up don't make sense because they're from an ancient foreign culture
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
You should try reading the bible while experiencing psychosis. Becomes pretty obvious that a lot of the people writing it were of the same mind.
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Replying to @PoPlaysGames @arthur_affect and
And when you realise that '666 the number of the beast' refers to the number of neutrons, protons and electrons in an atom of carbon 12, the singular element that is the basis of organic chemistry and all life on earth, that in the form of fossil fuels it is responsible for wars
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Replying to @PoPlaysGames @arthur_affect and
Yeah, no, it really doesn't. It's Gematria of the name of the emperor Nero.
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Replying to @LizardOrman @iridienne and
It's ambiguous in different extant copies, apparently. It's also not written with Arabic numerals, so you wouldn't have those three lined-up sixes (or 6 1 6)
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Replying to @mssilverstein @LizardOrman and
Apparently in some editions it's written out ("hexakósioi hexēkonta héx") and sometimes it uses the Greek numerals (χξϛ')
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Replying to @mssilverstein @LizardOrman and
Either way, though, the "it is the number of a man" is a pretty specific allusion to how to decode it.
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It's that Neil Armstrong ambiguity The author probably originally meant "the number of A man", meaning the number is code for someone's name (probably Nero) But when this meaning was lost it turned into "the number of Man"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
And you get cool numerological handwaviness about how 6 is man's number as 7 is God's number (man falls short of God's glory) and so 666 is man trying to take God's place by usurping the Trinity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
Yeah, and I mean, hey - if you're trying to go for a mystical reading, then everything's on the table. That's the fun of mysticism, you can make it do whatever you want.
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