I was a kid and while I didn't grow up in a strict religious environment, generations of simple Christianity weighed in and won out. What Pythagorean considered the ultimate in perfect numbers. As you can tell I flunked math. Which is the real driving force behind this, over compensation. Like Pentiums, when I add extremely large values 2 and 2 I occasionally come up with 5.
Numbers are important to our everyday life.
We use them to tally, rate, remember or symbolize just about everything. They're seven things you shouldn't do. Nose picking isn't one of them, but Sloth is. We didn't need to know what they were to be intimidated by the threat of our desires or habits compared to them. We don't walk around with lists of them in our pockets.