616, not 666
According to a recent story in Canada's National Post, recent research has revealed that the number initially associated with Satan was 616, not 666 [thanks to Alex for the link].
Aside from the beautiful beaches and our friends and families, many of us thought of the place as a living hell.
I find this new information very compelling. I was raised in Muskegon, Michigan, where the area code is 616. My high school had the highest drop-out rate in the nation when I was there. The smells from the paper mill and foundries were putrid, and the local acid-rain fall-out from the foundries made quick work of automobile paint finishes....a recently deciphered ancient biblical text revealed that 666 is not the fabled Number of the Beast after all.
A fragment from the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, dating to the Third century, gives the more mundane 616 as the mark of the Antichrist.
Ellen Aitken, a professor of early Christian history at McGill University, said the discovery appears to spell the end of 666 as the devil's prime number.
Aside from the beautiful beaches and our friends and families, many of us thought of the place as a living hell.
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