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Of course they have meaning
in the Bible and outside of it. The bible writers were using the materials they got from their world. There was even a philosopher who thought that the substructure of the universe is number (was it Pythagoras, I don't remember?).
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on February 9, 2005 at 10:24 AM
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God the Father,God the Son,God the Holy Spirit
I believe numbers have ameaning.
posted by
Experience
on February 9, 2005 at 10:19 AM
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pleroma
is something else. That word has a theological connotation. The "fulness" that I am referring to does not necessarily have a theological nuance; here it simply means "complete" as in "to the last drop".
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on February 9, 2005 at 10:08 AM
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Friar -
So these numbers are symbols for fullness. Is this fullness similar to pleroma?
posted by
sannhet
on February 9, 2005 at 9:49 AM
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three is
a number meaning "full" "complete". There are other numbers like it: 7 and 10.
posted by
Friar__Tuck
on February 8, 2005 at 10:51 PM
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Friar -
I'm wondering what you mean by "Three is the number of fullness"?
posted by
sannhet
on February 8, 2005 at 12:27 PM
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