But that's wrong. Scripture is full of numerology. 666? 777?
I may be wrong, but I don't see that as numerology.
Numbers do tend to represent something in Scripture. The number 7 is said to be God's number and represents completeness/perfection - he completed the world in 7 days. The number 3 is also God's number, maybe because of the Trinity.
Number 6 is the number of man - created on the 6th day, one short of perfection, less than God.
666 is, in my view, describing someone who is totally man - no soul, no intention of having a relationship with God, ONLY human.
But this is not quite the same as saying that the number 6 is important to humans because it describes, or predicts, their life and destiny. Or that number 7 is a lucky number and if you were born on the 7th, in the 7th month or have the number 7 in your life in any other way, it means you are destined to become a Christian, or godlike in some way.
My cousins' grandmother was into this. She used to tell people to add the numbers of their birthday together, e.g 1/08/1957, and add the digits of that number together. This would give them their "number" - and each number from 1-9 stood for something. So if your "number" was 8, it might mean you were a X sort of person, or destined to be a teacher/nurse/carer etc etc.
Some people take this very seriously and let the numbers rule their lives, or at least heavily influence them. Like horoscopes. If they met someone whose number was 2, or something, they might avoid them because they weren't compatible. Or if they saw the number 4 in several places, they might go and change career because of it.
Again, I may be wrong but THAT is what I understand by numerology. And the fact that you are saying "I see the number 11 repeatedly, is this from God and trying to tell me something; what does it mean?" is concerning.
God reveals himself in nature, Psalm 19:1, in Scripture, through the words and prophecies of the prophets, and then, ultimately, in Jesus.
Don't you know the devil imitates what God does?
Exactly.
And if the message of numerology is "you have a special number which governs your life, describes who you are and dictates your destiny", how is that from God, when the Bible says that God created us, made us who we are, gives us gifts and so on. We have a destiny - to belong to God and be with him forever. The way to do that is to read the Bible and accept Jesus, not have your life dictated by a number.
If God put numerology in scripture first, for example 666 being the number of the beast, then how on earth can you say it is not a Christian concept?
You seem to be saying that every time a number is mentioned in Scripture it is numerology; I don't believe that is the case. Google what numerology is, rather than saying "God put it in Scripture".
Revelation says that 666 is man's number. Number 6 was thought, by the Hebrews, to represent man, like I said above. That doesn't mean that a man who was born on 6/6/66, or whose names all contain 6 letters, or whatever is the antiChrist. The antichrist is someone who is completely anti Christ; completely human or trusts in human power and ability to save themselves and the world.
That Scripture contains numbers does not mean that God uses, or approves of, numerology.
As for the church not teaching it that is completely irrelevant, the majority of churches today are very worldly.
And some churches are very Scriptural - which is why they don't touch it with a barge pole.
If the church was our standard, and we blindly followed what pastors and church leaders said rather than scripture itself, we would all be doomed. So that's a bad argument to make.
No it's not - the church has doctrine, teaching and practices for a reason. If numerology is not one of the things that it teaches, it's very likely it's because it's wrong - like horoscopes, contacting the dead, reading peoples' palms etc etc.
At any rate, I put it in the controversial section for a reason.
In my view it's not controversial at all - it's something to be avoided.
We have Scripture. We are God's children, belong to God, are heirs with Christ and have EVERY spiritual blessing in Christ, Ephesians 1:3.
If you want to know what God is saying to you, ask him. Ask his Holy Spirit to live in you and guide you; why trust in a bunch of numbers?