I found an uncommon Bible with a Chinese translation. Sikimming through
it I found in 22 that there is another number used by the people once
the Kingdom of God is installed on Earth. Is this the same number of
the Beast or another number? I had never before noticed it, but it may
be an ommissio on my part after a dense writing or a special edition.
According to this, both the Beast and the Christ will ask us to use a
number! Can somebody help me with this doubt?

((( s.r.c.b-s is a moderated group. All posts are approved by a moderator. )))
((( Read http://srcbs.org for details about this group BEFORE you post. )))

gilgames wrote:
> I try to understand Gods will: "what God wants". God is different from
> us, we can approach Him only trough human words and concepts, but we are
> created to the Image of God, and this give us the power to search what
> He wants, through our concepts.

We can certainly understand some of what God wants but as you say he is
different from us and we cannot fully understand God until we get to heaven.
>
> My problem starts that I can not imagine (as pure philosophical concept
> of God and world) that God can love us for ourselves. We are so much
> below God, and there is so little loveable in us. He can love us for
> His Incarnated Son, and thus we are created to the Image of God by,
> through and for the Incarnated Son. (John 1:1-5) This is not my idea,
> this was the Benedictine and Franciscan view in the 13th Century: God
> created the world for the Incarnation, the death is the consequence of
> the original Sin, and the Passion of our Lord is the consequence of the
> personal sins.
>
> Based in this I cannot think about God as a sadist, who primarily would
> want His Son to suffer. In my view God made everything to get the
> friendly environment for His Son:
>
> - in the time of the Flood exterminated the humanity except Noah
>
> - after the Golden Calf he made a contract with His Nation, the
> Second Law, which is concluding on Chapters 27-29
>
> - w/ the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple, God
> emphasized that He means that destruction described in Deut. Ch. 27-29.
>
> The concept of the Suffering Messiah comes into the Scriptures only
> after the Captivity when two thirds of the Jews despised God's Will so
> much, that they stayed in Babylon instead of returning to the Land
> selected by God as home of His Son.

Not true. The concept that Christ would suffer is in the very first
prophecy in Genesis 3:15 where God says to Satan that he would bruise
heel of the seed of woman and Christ would bruise his head.
>
> This means for me, that with the free will God gave us some power not
> only over our fate, but also over His Son. Naturally this was His
> decision