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Originally Posted by vermin
According to at least one branch of Lutheranism, the office of the papacy is the anti-christ. Not any one pope in particular, but the whole idea of an earthly man claiming infallibility and other God-like attributes.
There's also room to debate whether the mark of the beast is six hundred sixty-six or just a string of numbers (possibly serial numbers on currency, or credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc.) that seems to starve those not in possesion of it.
Not to highjack things but the book of Revelations makes for a very interesting read if you take all the poetic imagery literally. Like science fiction only weirder. But of course, since it's God's word, it's all gonna happen. (time to stock up on insect spray)
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I love your point of view, I think I have something to add to it.
all the numbers in the world that we currently have counted on all bank tellers and money exchange records.. so and so untill we reach the end, what would happen If we add them all up? would that equal our countdown to that day? And I would love to study the book of revelations, I am just a novice on what the heck it is, or where to find it, not to sound stupid...
there are more planes of existance, so we should not worry about an antichrist, I mean, of course, do anything you can think of to prevent, but mainly, i think gods plan is for you to worry about your own growth and help the growth of others. and to stunt the growth, like we have been doing, is something wrong to do.