Hi Kofh,
You list seven reasons but weren't those reasons valuable when the Bible was first written? If it is important for one to know what 666 means today was it not important for others to know what 666 meant yesterday? Or 1000 years ago? Or is 666's value in just keeping our attention?
You write, "I guess its in there just for the devilment of it." yet go on to say it represents a way of behaving and numerology and the Kabbalah, etc, etc. Why wasn't it all explained before? Why wasn't it written so it could be deciphered years ago? Why wasn't it explained in clear language for all to understand before 2000 years passed?
My original question was why was it deliberately written as a mystery? The same as with your 7 "spirits". If our understanding of that is important why wasn't that written in a way that could have been understood a 1000 years ago? One gets the impression time is of little importance.
If there are lessons to be learned from the Bible why are the lessons not clearly explained? Is the Bible written as a joke book? A crossword puzzle? Something for one's entertainment but not a book that is supposed to show us the "rules of life"?
Would a serious person writing the Highway Code Rules describe the 60 MPH speed limit as "the sum of the digits of one hand (5) plus one (5+1=6)multipled by the sum of the digits of both hands (10 digits, 6X10=60)is the lawful speed limit"? Is this any way to inform people of laws and rules?
Why the games unless that is precisely what it is; a game, a hoax, a book written and compiled to be the biggest scam ever perpetrated on mankind?