Separation of church and state

[princess_peas]

 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080110/tpl-britain-politics-religion-offbeat-5b839a9_2.html

Any thoughts?

Firstly a serious discussion on this bill/topic itself and
secondly, if you wish, a discussion about the 'co-incidences' referrenced in the article.

But please can we keep them separate?  (ie, post two comments if necessary.)  TIA

Comments

[anonymous]

Point 2, first: 666 is a mistranslation - you need to look for 616 for the Bill of the Antichrist.

[princess_peas]

How interesting, thanks for letting us know! But, do ALL the bible translations come out with the same mistranslation? Isn't comparing translations the way to weed out errors like these? (Done at seperate times all nowadays from the original manuscripts? By a team of 50-100 from all denominations to weed out biases?)

I haven't compared translations of this verse myself, but I have only ever heard one person say previously that it's not supposed to be a number anyway when properly translated.(according to this person, it should come out as NERO, who was a roman emperor who persecuted the Christians, and in which case it's not really about Satan at all.) Although possibly they also said a similar thing to what you just said, because now that you mention it it does seem familiar. Just that that person is the only one I'd heard mention it before, so I like to check the authority of it if only one person says it.

[ozymandias_pbs]

The Neronian idea is an old and unlikely one: He was dead by the time of the writing of the Book of Revelations, by all likely seeming timeframes for its authorship, and its a stretch of the imagination even were the chronology accurate for it to represent Nero. The relevant revelatory papyrus fragment (pun intended) and an article about it may be found here: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/beast616.htm