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

We need to be careful that we are not guilty of the very thing we
accuse Dr. Kennedy. As far as I know, Dr. Kennedy is amillennial.
Thus, he would likely agree with George here on identifying 666 with
Nero. You cannot impute a viewpoint to Dr. Kennedy from someone else's
bumper sticker 20 years ago any more you can impute Hitler to Darwin.

On 8/24/06, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
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>
> 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)
>
>
>
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> 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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