Fun with numbers?

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The Catholic Bible consists of 73 Books: 7 and 3 are both considered “lucky” or “holy” numbers.

Martin Luther removed 7 Books leaving only 66, which I think most would agree is a moderately unholy number.

If mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe, do you think there’s a message here?

(No offence is intended to any Lutherans, it’s merely something I noticed and had a little giggle at.)
 
I know many people see a significance in the Gospel of John 6:66, “After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer walked with him,” when some of Our Lord’s followers left him after the Bread of Life discourse.

Myself, I just don’t have that much of an interest in the special meaning of numbers or in numerology. Maybe that’s because I’m lousy at math, and therefore biased against all numbers in general 😁.
 
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There are 27 books in the New Testament.
27 = 3³ (three cubed), a trinity of trinities.
 
I think symbolic numbers are a real thing, and have some importance, but every number below 100 has symbolic significance and it is not that difficult to just invent stuff to attach to every number.

That said, I have seen some protestants make an observation about their canon: their old testament has 39 books. 3 times 9 is 27. Some protestants think that’s significant because the New Testament has 27 books.

But if the Catholic Canon is counted as having 73 books, and if you double the New Testament because it’s twice as important, than we’d have 100 books – which is one of several symbolic numbers meaning “completion.”

But like I said before, you can basically do anything with the numbers below 100, so these little math games don’t really prove much in my opinion.
 
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And all the numerology falls apart if you count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one book (as some do). 😜
 
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And all the numerology falls apart if you count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one book (as some do).
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In Jewish use the minor prophets from Hosea to Malachi are counted as a single book, under the title “The Twelve”, which reduces the Hebrew Bible to just twenty-eight books.
 
What can we do to knock it down to 27? Then the OT and NT would be even 🙂
 
Easy! We can do as you suggested and count Jeremiah and Lamentations as a single book.
 
I have a book of math facts, games, and trivia which has 4 pages about the number 666. That’s 4 pages in typical textbook typesetting, with equations.

Some of the facts are pretty obscure, for example, if you calculate 666 to the 47th power, and that’s a big number, the sum of all its digits is 666. And the same for 666 to the 51st power.

Here is another one: 666 = (6+6+6)+(63+63+63)

I guess you can find such patterns if you try enough combinations of operations.
 
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More fun with numbers. If you take the Roman numerals in the name of the Seventh Day Adventist prophetess Ellen Gould White with the origin of the letter ‘W’ being a double ‘V’ you get

Ellen Gould White: eLLen goVLD VVIte =

L + L + V + L + D + V + V + I
= 50+50+5+50+500+5+5+1
= 666

This, of course, is our answer to Vicarius Filii Dei. Isn’t this fun?
 
I agree that mathematics can be bent to fit almost any desired outcome (Proof that 1=2).
 
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