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The second god, Re, named three times to define the sun: dawn, noon, and evening. Thoth is described as the “thrice-great god of wisdom”. A doomed prince was doomed to three fates: to die by a crocodile, a serpent, or a dog. Three groups of three attempts each (nine attempts) were required for a legendary peasant to recover his stolen goods.
The Catholic Church also rejects the notions that God is "composed" of its three persons and that "God" is a genus containing the three persons. The c. fourth-century Gnostic text " Trimorphic Protennoia " presents a threefold discourse of the three forms of Divine Thought: the Father, the Son, and the Mother ( Sophia ). [ 35 ]
The 144,000 (Rev. 7:4; 14:1, 3) are the multiples of 12 x 12 x 10 x 10 x 10, a symbolic number that signifies the total number (tens) of the people of God (twelves). The 12,000 stadia (12 x 10 x 10 x 10) of the walls of the New Jerusalem in Rev. 21:16 represent an immense city that can house the total number (tens) of God's people (twelves ...
The man pledged allegiance to the king, asked for forgiveness and went on his way. The king asked the hermit again for his answers, and the hermit responded that he had just had his questions answered: 1. The most important time is now. 2. The most important person is whoever you are with. 3. The most important thing is to help the person you ...
Elsewhere, he refers to this argument as "the aut Deus aut malus homo" ("either God or a bad man"), [14] a reference to an earlier version of the argument used by Henry Parry Liddon in his 1866 Bampton Lectures, in which Liddon argued for the divinity of Jesus based on a number of grounds, including the claims he believed Jesus made.
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards .
Goldie Hawn is recounting an alien encounter that left her paralyzed: 'Oh, my God. I think I made contact with outer space.'
In addition to the importance of three and nine, Simek highlights the importance of the number 27 (27/3=9) for the Germanic lunar calendar. [ 8 ] Scholars Mindy MacLeod and Bernard Mees note that, "the number nine plays a significant role in Germanic folklore: charms frequently contain nine ingredients or specify a ritual to be performed nine ...