Mark of the beast?? (Must read!-spooky! vanity)

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[Bladerunnuh]

Welcome to Xmark, the new corporate identity for our healthcare security products. Our new name emphasizes our focus on healthcare security. You may have known us under the eXI or VeriChip brand, but we are now bringing all our products under the Xmark name.

[stuartcr]

Why do you say that?

[Bladerunnuh]

something my friends and I still laugh about was when Picard was “locutus” sp? and he’s in custody on the Enterprise, and he says— “sleep, Data”, and the doctor goes— “he must be exhausted...”

I love that.

[theDentist]

Do you know that Bill gates' REAL name is William Henry Gates III? Nowadays, he is known as Bill Gates (III) where "III" means the order of third (3rd). So, what's so eerie about this name?

OK, if you take all the letters in Bill Gates III and then convert it in ASCII code (American standard code for information interchange) and then ADD up all the numbers...you will get 666, which is the number of the beast!!!

B = 66
I = 73
L = 76
L = 76
G = 71
A = 65
T = 84
E = 69
S = 83
I = 1
I = 1
I = 1 = 666 !!!! THE NUMBER OF THE DEVIL

Coincidence? Maybe, but take WINDOWS 95 and do the SAME procedure and you will get 666 too!!! And the same goes for MS-DOS 6.31!!! Are you sure this is not a coincidence? You decide....

MS-DOS 6.21 ** 77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666

WINDOWS 95 ** 87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1= 666

[nicmarlo]

Because there is only ONE WAY to heaven.

And Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life...no one comes to the Father but through Him.

[janetgreen]

First ones to the camps: nic, Shaun, and BQ. and Czar, and janetgreen, and.....

Oh, they'll have trouble with me - don't they know they can't teach an old dog new tricks??

[Shaun_MD]

Oh you are so going to the Camp. When they ask you for names, YOU DON’T KNOW ME! lol

[stuartcr]

We have different beliefs.

[Bladerunnuh]

hey, if you think about it, Darth Vader was done in by teddy bears.

[nicmarlo]

That's likely why BQ thought of you first. : )

(and I just agreed.....: )

[nicmarlo]

And you have been deceived.

I pray that the scales will be removed from your eyes so that you may see.

[frogjerk]

I do not believe we really have freewill. I believe God has a plan for each of us, and we can only do as He has planned.

Matthew 11:21

"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes."

This would seem to go against your argument.

[Shaun_MD]

Yeah, cute little fuzzy bears.

[quant5]

“I don’t believe hell is a literal burning place. I think it is the total opposite of Heaven. It’s the eternal separation from God and is the destruction of the soul.”

Revelations I believe your basing this thought on, where the angel talking to John says that the lake of fire is the second (permanent) death. That is my belief also. You cease to exist, a horrible and unfathomable thought.

[marinamuffy]

The last episode of Enterprise was horrible! And I thought the show had actually gotten pretty decent by the last season. They recently put out a novel called something like “The Good That Men Do” which was a telling of what REALLY happened in the last episode. It kind of redeemed it, but man was that episode a stinker!

marinamuffy

P.S. I am exercising my freewill to enter/not enter into this discussion on freewill. I’m pretty sure God already knew about, but didn’t prescribe, my decision :)!

[stuartcr]

I agree, if one held the bible in the same light as you...I do not.

[stuartcr]

If one ceased to exist, how would it be known?

[Shaun_MD]

That’s my belief. Everlasting destruction instead of everlasting punishment.

[quant5]

“Absolutely, but what about people in other countries? I would think the mark wouldn’t just apply to Americans that have to work.”

Well, I don’t have bible handy but I do remember it saying all men, rich and poor, free or slave in all the earth. Since this chip was invented here first, it shouldn’t be a surprise if it is forced on us here in the USA first. A nuclear terrorist incident would be one way this could happen in the thinking of good guys have chips, bad guys don’t or it could be that our country’s economy collapses and each person is assigned so much electronics credits to buy the basic nessecities, but I don’t know it is all conjecture.

[frogjerk]

Not an excuse, merely an explanation. We still are responsible for our actions here on earth.

How can we be if you are saying everything is predestined? In that case we don't even need a judgment day nor did we need Christ to come down from Heaven? It was all predestined anyway, right?

[Dianna]

You cease to exist, a horrible and unfathomable thought.

But if you cease to exist, is there any eternity for you? I think it would be worse to exist forever, always apart from God with no way to redeem yourself.