Vicariius filii dei?

[Glennon_P]

The thing is, so what? Anyone could take a word or phrase and apply whatever calculus they will to come up with 666. The name of the Seventh-Day Adventist founder, Ellen Gould White adds up to 666. The name of Bill Gates adds up to 666. And I’m sure there are tons of other people, famous and non-famous, whose names can add up to 666 using some numeric system out there.

Here’s another: Ronald Wilson Reagan had six letters in each of his three names…6-6-6.

 

[porthos11]

porthos11:

The thing is, so what? Anyone could take a word or phrase and apply whatever calculus they will to come up with 666. The name of the Seventh-Day Adventist founder, Ellen Gould White adds up to 666. The name of Bill Gates adds up to 666. And I’m sure there are tons of other people, famous and non-famous, whose names can add up to 666 using some numeric system out there.

Here’s another: Ronald Wilson Reagan had six letters in each of his three names…6-6-6.

Heh heh.

Please figure out how you can make Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s names add up to 666 and let us know.

I’m sure someone can (I picked those two because they are polar opposites, and so should be sufficient “proof” that everyone is the beast).

 

[puer.dei]

Please figure out how you can make Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s names add up to 666 and let us know.

I’ll be really surprised if that hasn’t already been done!

 

[JSRG]

This page is useful, I think:

Bible Truth Versus Adventist Truth - 666 and the Pope

It’s not a Catholic site either so one can’t really accuse it of a pro-Catholic bias.

 

[Glennon_P]

Please figure out how you can make Donald Trump and Barack Obama’s names add up to 666 and let us know.

Donald Trump, Senior = 18 characters, divided by the three words = 6
Barack Hussein Obama = 18 characters, divided by three three words = 6
Last two Presidents! = 18 characters, divided by three words = 6

6-6-6

 

[otjm]

I guess you are not as old as I am. Bible studies started after Vatican 2.From the USCCB, document titled “Changes in Catholic Attitudes Toward Reading the Bible”- and I quote:

“Once the printing press was invented, the most commonly printed book was the Bible, but this still did not make Bible-reading a Catholic’s common practice. Up until the mid-twentieth Century, the custom of reading the Bible and interpreting it for oneself was a hallmark of the Protestant churches springing up in Europe after the Reformation. Protestants rejected the authority of the Pope and of the Church and showed it by saying people could read and interpret the Bible for themselves. Catholics meanwhile were discouraged from reading Scripture.”

I kind of doubt that the USCCB is spreading myths.

 

[Gorgias]

I guess you are not as old as I am. Bible studies started after Vatican 2.From the USCCB, document titled “Changes in Catholic Attitudes Toward Reading the Bible”- and I quote:

From the same document – and I quote:

Until the twentieth Century, it was only Protestants who actively embraced Scripture study. That changed after 1943 when Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu . This not only allowed Catholics to study Scripture, it encouraged them to do so. And with Catholics studying Scripture and teaching other Catholics about what they were studying, familiarity with Scripture grew.

So… not just “after Vatican 2.”

 

[Tis_Bearself]

So… not just “after Vatican 2.”

This is correct. My parents were married before Vatican 2. They received as a wedding gift from their parish a Douay Rheims Bible with a foreword by Cardinal Spellman. I believe every Catholic couple getting married in their diocese or state received the same gift at that time. Obviously the Church was expecting the newly married couples to read it when they gifted it to them.