Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00131)

krishtar_a wrote:
> No I donīt agree totally with this explanation, 7 is not arbitrary, 7
> is very present in many divisions of many phenomena occult or not. 
> One example is the seven principles in human being.
Which nobody can seem to agree exactly which is which. Because they are 
taking a continuity, and breaking it into 7 arbitrary parts.

> An example is the seventh day, God rested from the work of creation
> since it was full, complete, good and perfect. In relation to time,
> seven marks the week of seven days used by all nations. Seven tells
> of eternal Sabbath-keeping for the people of God in all its
> everlasting perfection.
In a book written by humans.

> In Daniel's "time-oriented" prophecy, the number seven also points to
> spiritual perfection or completeness for the Jewish people and many
> other cases, which means it is not undeliberately.
But it is bass akwards. People ascribe importance to the number 7 due 
to the observable planets. You have yet to give a single concrete 
example of the number 7 being important in and of itself, merely 
examples of humans assigning the number 7 to things.

Bart