I cannot post this where it belongs because I do not identify as Theist (nor do I identify as Atheist)
The number of the beast is 666 or 616. It is the sum of the numbers of the letters of the name "Cain and Nathan" which means "get and give" and refers to buying and selling. It is the name from which we get "Jonathan" as in "Jonah" was swallowed by a "Than".
Hebrew alphabet - Wikipedia
Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
what causes a pause in the above for me is not the number but “Here is wisdom.” consider “here is wisdom” with “and here is the mind which has wisdom. Revelation 17:9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
here is the mind which has wisdom...what mind has wisdom if not for “the mind of Christ” even in “be you transformed by the renewing of the mind.”
Consider that again “and here is the mind which has wisdom.” Can’t point enough at the mind of Christ as the mind which has wisdom. 2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,
so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
“and here is the mind which has wisdom.”
Philippians 2:3-5 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but
in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. [4] Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. [5]
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have
the mind of Christ.
James 3:17-18 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. [18] And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
the mind of Christ: and here is the mind which has wisdom. Philippians 2:5-11
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (Ephesians 4:23)[6] Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [9] Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; [11] And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.