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Yeah but im looking to buy something cheap to play Phantom Hourglass on. I had a bunch of flashcards and none of them ever failed me before. I would gladly buy a DSTWO but its out of production AFAIK.
My boys have had an r4ids.cn card for almost two years now and I can confirm phantom hourglass works on the N3DS if that helps. I honestly don't think it makes much of a difference which one you get. Resellers use terms like Gold, RTS, Wood inconsistently so I refer to them by the manufactures website.

Wood is always good to have in hand. :)

Anyone from the future??? I NEED THE UPDATE!!!
I am not from the future but I have seen it.

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That was a mistranslation, the number of the beast is actually 616


The claim that the mark of the beast is 616 was debunked in the 2nd century. The correct number has always been 666.

(This is completely off topic, but is anything in this thread on topic?)
...the 2nd century bishop of Lyon, known to be a disciple of Polycarp. Polycarp is believed to have been a disciple of John, the author of Revelation. In his treatise, “Against Heresies,” Irenaeus deals with the subject of Revelation 13 and the number of the beast. In Book 5, Chapter 28 of this work, he states that the number of the beast is 666. In addition, Chapter 30 of the same work makes the following statement regarding the number 666:

“Such, then, being the state of the case, and this number being found in all the most approved and ancient copies [of the Apocalypse], and those men who saw John face to face bearing their testimony [to it]; while reason also leads us to conclude that the number of the name of the beast, [if reckoned] according to the Greek mode of calculation by the [value of] the letters contained in it, will amount to six hundred and sixty and six…(portion elided)…I do not know how it is that some have erred following the ordinary mode of speech, and have vitiated the middle number in the name, deducting the amount of fifty from it, so that instead of six decads (author’s note: a decad is 10) they will have it that there is but one. [I am inclined to think that this occurred through the fault of the copyists, as is wont to happen, since numbers also are expressed by letters; so that the Greek letter which expresses the number sixty was easily expanded into the letter Iota of the Greeks.] Others then received this reading without examination; some in their simplicity, and upon their own responsibility, making use of this number expressing one decad; while some, in their inexperience, have ventured to seek out a name which should contain the erroneous and spurious number.” [Roberts 558]

Source: http://www.endtime.com/blog/666-or-616-the-number-of-the-beast/
 
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The claim that the mark of the beast is 616 was debunked in the 2nd century. The correct number has always been 666.

(This is completely off topic, but is anything in this thread on topic?)

When they found the dead sea scrolls (I think) which were older than any previous copy of the bibles manuscripts, it says the number of the beast is 616 (or 676 I cant remember which) and not 666 at all. There's a big long explanation as to why it became 666 over time, but I'll let you read that yourself.

You should read an unbiased site (not a church website) to get your facts, too :D
 
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When they found the dead sea scrolls (I think) which were older than any previous copy of the bibles manuscripts, it says the number of the beast is 616 (or 676 I cant remember which) and not 666 at all. There's a big long explanation as to why it became 666 over time, but I'll let you read that yourself.


The DSS were only OT manuscripts. Revelation is NT.. I'll let you work out the rest yourself.
 

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The DSS were only OT manuscripts. Revelation is NT.. I'll let you work out the rest yourself.

I haven't read either testament, however the Old Testament, being the original book, would have the number of the beast wouldn't it? And since it was the first book... ?
 

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I haven't read either testament, however the Old Testament, being the original book, would have the number of the beast wouldn't it? And since it was the first book... ?

No, it's not mentioned until Revelation (last book of the Bible/NT). The # is definitely 666.

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Can't we talk about the Cult of Gateway without bringing religion into it.......

the Cult of Gateway is a religion ;)
 

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I haven't read either testament, however the Old Testament, being the original book, would have the number of the beast wouldn't it? And since it was the first book... ?


The old testament is a collection of stories based on an oral tradition, assembled over many hundreds of years, edited and addended as the cultural and political structure changed. The new testament came about some amount of time later as a separate thing, though it too was based on a collection of stories based on an oral tradition and assembled and edited over the span of many hundreds of years. The 666 thing was another name for Nero Caeasr, I think, as that was the bad guy politically at the time.

Similarly, I suspect the next firmware update is being assembled and edited, and will be released within the next hundred years or so. Naw, but really.
 

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