Re: [asa] More on the Darwin-Hitler link (+ product codes)

The www claim is indeed hilarious but not because it uses the Hebrew alphabet. The most plausible serious identification of 666 is "Nero Caesar" in Hebrew characters (NRWN QSR). What rules out www is (a) 666 is "the number of a man" (KJV), (b) in gematria the numerical values of the letters are to be added so that www = 18 in Hebrew and (c) the clear implication of the text that its 1st century readers should be able to know who the number refers to.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Iain Strachan
  To: D. F. Siemens, Jr.
  Cc: ASA
  Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:07 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] More on the Darwin-Hitler link (+ product codes)

  On 8/24/06, D. F. Siemens, Jr. <dfsiemensjr@juno.com> wrote:

    Unfortunately, I do not expect too much from Kennedy and his
    organization. Nearly two decades back I visited his church. There were a
    number of cars in the parking lot with bumper stickers claiming that the
    product codes were the mark of the beast. The original codes had taller
    marks at each end and in the middle that could be read as sixes. I've
    never seen such claims elsewhere, but I would like to know if anyone has
    seen such views expressed anywhere else.
    Dave

  Yes, I think the claim that the bar codes are the mark of the beast is quite a common one in fundamentalist Christian circles.

  Another even more bizarre one was expressed to me by a computer science student from Calgary university. I had wandered into the nearest church to where I was staying on a two week business trip. It turned out to be a fundamentalist Pentecostalist church. This guy tried to tell me that the Internet bears the mark of the Beast, because of the "www" prefix, and that "wav" is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and hence it spelt 666. I was too polite to ask if he was aware that the NT was written in Greek, not Hebrew.

  Iain.

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