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My understanding is that seven contains a sense of completion in that it is the end of a process, while three contains a sense of completion from integration. To give a quick illustration of three, as a person we have activity, a body, and a soul, or as the Divine has the Holy Spirit, the Son, and the the Father. Seven as in the days of creation ...

I don't think you'll find dogma from any major tradition insisting that God pre-ordained the number 7, that it's integral to His nature, or anything of the sort. In fact, scripture suggests the contrary. Consider first God's consecration of 7 as the symbol of perfection. It's the final event (or detail) of the first creation account. Genesis 2:1-3 1 ...

Alright we are truly careening into wild specualtion with the question and my answer but for the sheer fun of it, I would suggest this as a possible explanation. If we are allowed to make meanings from two numbers added, I would say seven, meaning 'totality' arises from joining 'God' (3) and the world (4) into our daily lives (3+4=7). This gives us totality ...

Mike talked about this, but let me clarify a little: In Greek and Hebrew, they use the same symbols for numbers that they use for letters. Basically, they use the first nine letters of the alphabet for the numbers 1 to 9, the next line letters for 10 to 90, and nine more letters for 100 to 900. As neither Greek nor Hebrew has 27 letters in their alphabet, ...

Numerology in Scripture us often debated, but the number three is significant. It is considered the number of divine perfection, represented in: The Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit The three-part nature of man - Body, Soul, Spirit Past, Present, Future Time, Space, Matter Depths, width, height Solid, liquid, gas The number three is seen by some as ...

Understanding this number is deeply rooted into how one understands Revelation. I understand it as speaking of a near prophecy of the Roman Empires attack on the church, and in so doing, mirroring a continuous and distant prophecy of the churches existence in the world until the final judgment, with some things principally intending their final fulfilment. ...