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Why are numbers so important within the teachings of the Catholic Church?
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∙ 13y ago
It would help if you specified which numbers you were talking about, because my general understanding is that numbers are, for the most part, not that important in the teachings of the Roman Catholic church, outside of a few numbers of special ritual or symbolic significance.
One of these is seven, which symbolically represents "completeness" and occurs over and over again in The Bible... this is not a peculiarly Catholic idea, though. 40 is another number which recurs many times (there's a body of thought that holds that it's a suspiciously round number to occur so often, and that some of these are not meant as literally 40, but that 40 may have been chosen to represent "a lot.") Again, this is very prevalent in the Torah, so the Catholics didn't invent it.
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