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To: ShadowAce

Numbers in the Bible are largely symbolic. That’s why you see the same ones over and over.
If you take them as strictly literal, you miss the message being given.


20 posted on 01/28/2015 7:46:11 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy
If you take them as strictly literal, you miss the message being given.

You also miss the message if you take them as strictly symbolic. They are both.

24 posted on 01/28/2015 7:51:14 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: AppyPappy
Numbers in the Bible are largely symbolic. That’s why you see the same ones over and over.
If you take them as strictly literal, you miss the message being given.

Symbolic of what??? Nothing??? If they are symbolic, they symbolize something...What is it???

65 posted on 01/28/2015 3:59:47 PM PST by Iscool
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