SDAS AND 666.WHAT THEY WILL NEVER TELL YOU. Ellen Gould White, the foundress of Seventh Day Adventism wrote many books, some of which preach hatred of the Catholic Church. One book in particular titled, The Great Controversy is almost entirely devoted to this subject. Seventh Day Adventists equates the Pope with the dreaded number of the beast, 666, as recounted in Revelations 13:18 and 15:2. They use as so-called proof a document called, the Donation of Constantine, written between 750 and 800 A.D.. In this document, the Pope is referred to as the Vicar of the Son of GOD, which is Vicarius Filii Dei in Latin. If you take the letters of this title in Roman Numeral form, they add up to 666. Add Vicarius, V=5+I =1+C=100+I=1+U (u and v are equal in Latin)=5 is 112. Add to it Fileii, I=1+L=51+I+I is 53. Add Dei, D=500+1 is 501. Now add the three, 112+53+501= 666. According to the warped reasoning of Seventh Day Adventists, this proves that the Pope is the beast of 666. To further their so-called proof, they claim the title Vicar of the Son of GOD is engraved on the miter of the Pope. What they will never tell you... 1. The Constantine, which Seventh Day Adventists use here, was not a Pope as they claim. He was an iconoclast Byzantine Emperor who was condemned by the Popes for his iconoclasm. 2. The Donation of Constantine is not a genuine historical Catholic document. It is widely known as a forgery. There is no official Catholic document to prove this charge by, and only by, Seventh Day Adventists. 3. The title Vicar of the Son of GOD was never a title of the Pope. It is a Seventh Day Adventists twisting of Vicar of Christ, which is one of the Popes true titles. 4. Vicar of the Son of GOD is NOT engraved on the miter of the Pope. No Seventh Day Adventist has ever been able to show proof of this charge. I ask them again, show me a genuine Papal miter with those words engraved upon it? 5. The beast of 666 is not the number of a title, but is the number of its name as stated in Rev 15:2, ...and those who had overcome the beast and its image and the number of its * (see note 1) name... Therefore even if the Pope had the title Vicar of the Son of GOD, which he never did, 666 would not apply to him as it is not his name, but a title. Now let us look at a similar verse, Rev 13:18 mentioned earlier. The Greek word used in this verse to show the gender of the beast is anthropos, meaning a human being. The KJ translates this word as a man. The CEV translates it to a person. The GNB says someone. The GW and the RSVA agree in saying merely that it is a human number. The ISV says it is the number of a person. Well so much for the non-argument that the gender neutral anthropos could only mean a man. I have provided factual evidence that many Bible translations have shown that it could mean a woman as well. But there is someone whose name fits perfectly, as the beast 666 of Revelation. 6. Now since 666 is the number of its name, let us find one that matches it. Ellen = L+L=100, Gould = U+L+D = 555, White = a double U = 2 Vs +1 = 11. Total these three numbers, and we have, 100 + 555 + 11 = 666 So Ellen Gould White, the foundress of Seventh Day Adventism, has a name that adds up to 666, and it is the number of a name and not of a title. 7. Want another one? Okay, try this. Since Seventh Day Adventists try their twists in the Latin language, here is yet another example from the Latin which they use: Ellen G. White calls herself, the Voice of GOD. Note that there is no twisting here as SDAs do to the title of the Pope. So, in Latin her name is: Ellena Alba Vox Dei, or Ellen White Voice of GOD. Ellena = L+L=100, Alba (White)= L=50 Vox (Voice)=V=5 + X=10 = 15 Dei (GOD)=D=500 +I=1 = 501 Total these three numbers, and we have, 100 + 50+ 15 + 501= yet a second time! 8. I would say that the number 666 applies more readily to the foundress of Seventh Day Adventism since it is the number of its* name, and not the name of a trumped up, non-existent title, wouldnt you? I gave you two examples of the 666 of the SDA foundress, and neither was found by twisting a name, or a title, or by quoting a forged document, or by calling an historical emperor a non-existent Pope. Who was it that came up with the quote about throwing stones around glass houses? *Note 1: The book of Revelation was written in Greek, so we must go back to the Greek to understand the gender meaning, him, her, its, etc. The Greek word used here is hautou. It has several meanings such as her, it, and him. Some additional observations: 1. Since the book of Revelation was written in Greek, not Latin, why do Latin numerals have anything to do with Greek? 2. Did the SDAs check Sandskrit, or Japanese, or Eskimo or hundreds of other languages for a similar stretch in their logic? 3. SDAs are Sola Scriptura believers, so they say. So that means if it isnt in the Bible, they refuse to believe it. So in dealing with SS believers, I must put on my Sola Scriptura glasses; and reply, Hey, I cannot find your 666 argument using Roman numerals in the Bible, so therefore your charge simply does not exist. For the doubters about the double U, I suggest you consult your dictionary for the origins of the letter W: V The Romans adopted the second form (comparing Phoenician and Greek) for both the U and W sounds, simplifying its shape to V. As its name indicates, the letter W is in origin a double U (VV), often used in inscriptions from around the first century A.D. to represent the W sound in Germanic or Celtic names. That is how my dictionary defines it...
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:45:56 +0000
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