Can you name the Biblical Misconceptions? by WindSword

Hint	Answer
There's no reason to believe the fruit they ate was an apple.
Likewise, the Bible never actually says that this devious animal was Satan.
The mark God gave this murderer was to protect him, not punish him.
God told Noah to bring this many of the clean animals. It was two for the unclean animals.
The Gospels don't tell us how many of these there were, and they also didn't show up on the night Jesus was born
This person didn't turn away a pregnant Mary. Heck, he isn't even in the Bible.
On a related note, Mary and Joseph aren't mentioned as riding one of these.
There was a prostitute who believed in Jesus. But she wasn't necessarily the same woman.
1 Timothy says that LOVE of this is the root of all evil
This man is described as having brothers. Catholics interpret it to mean either stepbrothers or cousins.
This guy was eaten by a 'big fish', not a whale.
This is a general term for those who deny Christ, which is never used in Revelation.
Sorry Left Behind, this end-of-times event also isn't mentioned in the Bible.
There's nothing in the Bible saying this is flat, or that it is the center of the universe.
He's never described as ruling over Hell. He mostly wanders the earth.
She didn't cut Samson's hair, she got a servant to do it.

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Biblical Misconceptions Quiz

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Created Apr 14, 2011 in Religion
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	singin185:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 10:30 GMT		14 points
	Please accept 7 for seven. Also, 4 minutes is a lot of time for 13 answers.

	lukebradford:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 15:16 GMT		16 points
	Great quiz. I think four minutes is fine for a trivia quiz like this. You have "7" as an alternative, but you need to check off "Accept one-syllable answers" to make it work properly.

	folio1701:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 15:31 GMT		19 points
	The funny thing is that the idea of the Rapture wasn't even developed until the mid 1700s.

	bampote:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 15:49 GMT		17 points
	Great quiz - you should definitely accept "serpent" as an answer for the snake, though.

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	someone_else:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 19:36 GMT		19 points
	The first clue, I felt was a little vague. I couldn't figure out what you were after, maybe it's just me. The "term for those who deny Christ", last time I checked, is not the definition of antichrist.

	nymets18:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 20:31 GMT		13 points
	There were 14 of the clean animals; each of the 7 males had his mate.

	WindSword:	Apr 15th, 2011 at 23:57 GMT		14 points
	@someone_else-There is THE Antichrist, and antichrists. The term itself means someone who works against Christ, literally anti-Christ. There is also THE Antichrist, who isn't even described as such in Revelation. I'd direct you to John 2:22, "Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son." @nymets18- Nice point, actually. I'll change that.

	Lohen:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 10:31 GMT		4 points
	This is a very interesting quiz! 2 minutes is too little to answer all the questions though... You might also accept more international names like "Maria Magdalena" for "Mary Magdalene" as an answer.

	Bataar:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 19:12 GMT		14 points
	The word "rapture" comes from the latin "to seize" or "take forcefully". It's not the word that is the problem, or the fact that some will be taken and some "left behind". The word now has come to mean one specific interpretation of how the end times will play out. The Left Behind series is interesting fiction, but a really dumb place to get theology from. Also, the thing with Satan ruling over hell always bugs me too. He will be there, but he won't be ruling or enjoying himself in any way (Rev. 20:10).

	Bataar:	Apr 16th, 2011 at 19:14 GMT		13 points
	Also, 2 minutes is definitely not too long. Especially if you don't read all the clues before pressing start.

	Angria:	Apr 17th, 2011 at 15:44 GMT		2 points
	Awesome quiz! It always bugs me when people actually believe these are true.

	bubbagumma:	Apr 18th, 2011 at 02:47 GMT		8 points
	Re "Rapture" & "Left Behind": Two women will be grinding meal together: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind. (Luke 17:35, GNT) Two women will be at a mill grinding meal: one will be taken away, the other will be left behind. (Matthew 24:41, Good News Translation, GNT) Though, some translations use "forsaken" and the term "rapture" is not used, some interpret the image created as synonymous with the term "rapture".

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	311rvmt:	Apr 18th, 2011 at 23:43 GMT		20 points
	I don't know about including Revelations stuff under bible misconceptions. The book is pretty cryptic, and people who claim to be christian have all kinds of interpretations for what it means, mainly differing in the degree to which they want to interpret things literally. As for Jonah, I do not believe that ancient Hebrew had a word for "whale", and instead use a generic term "large sea creature". The ancients did not know the difference between fish and whales (e.g. Greek ketos=sea monster=whale=giant fish=specific sea monster Cetus, from where we get cetacean), so the whole fish vs whale statement is somewhat pointless.

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	mrt23498:	Apr 19th, 2011 at 18:08 GMT		18 points
	The Bible even suggests that the world is round, "It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers" (Isaiah 40v22)

	metagloria:	Apr 19th, 2011 at 19:51 GMT		6 points
	Very interesting (and inevitably controversial) quiz! As a Christian, I like it. Kind of expected to see "Trinity" as an answer, as that's another thing not specifically in the Bible yet alluded to by it.

	trix:	Apr 19th, 2011 at 19:56 GMT		17 points
	Actually, the Bible DOES call the animal that swallowed Jonah a whale. While the book of Jonah does indeed call it a "great fish," Jesus Himself referred to it as a whale in Matthew 12:40: "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

	Justhavingfun:	Apr 19th, 2011 at 21:07 GMT		6 points
	While the word "Rapture" is not specifically in the Bible, the event is very clearly described. The word "Trinity" is also not in the Bible, but there is no doubt that the Trinity exists. Just because a specific word does not appear in the Bible, it does not mean that the Bible does not refer to it.

	someone_else:	Apr 19th, 2011 at 21:48 GMT		5 points
	@WindSword - thank you for clearing that up (for me), I wasn't aware that there was more than one definition.

	SaintsfanJoe:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 03:35 GMT		2 points
	WindSword--please include in a game note WHICH version of the Bible you are using. As "trix" mentions, the book of Jonah does not use the word "whale", the passage cited does. As for the Rapture, as cited by several users, the event is mentioned, but not the word. As I have learned, "Rapture" is used to differentiate the two comings of Christ which are mentioned in the Bible. The one explained in 1 Thessalonians 4 mentions that the saints will be "caught up together with them in the CLOUDS to meet the Lord in the air;" the one explained in Revelation 19 clearly talks of Christ coming to earth on a white horse, with soldiers who follow Him on white horses, and a war which is commonly called Armageddon. As "bubbagamma" states, the Bible clearly mentions folks being "left behind"--and that is never mentioned in Revelation 19. To try to reconcile the details of the coming of Christ mentioned in 1 Thess. 4 and the Gospels with the events of Revelation 19 is impossible--they have some similarities, but are obviously different. [To mention another detail--1 Thess. 4:18 says to "comfort one another with these words." War, especially with the bloodshed described in Revelation, is anything BUT comforting.] Oh, BTW, I use the King James Version, if anyone wondered.

	irenethebean:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 22:59 GMT		8 points
	Very interesting quiz. Yes, the New Testament says that, indeed, it was a whale. Another thing to add is that there is never an angel that is female.

	Dymefire:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 01:18 GMT		3 points
	I'm sure by asking this somebody will post an extremely long comment, or at least be tempted to. And possibly may start more arguments. Is the rapture, as defined in the Left Behind series (all believers and those too young to make a choice taken up into heaven; precipitating the end times / Tribulation) cited in the Bible at any point in any translation? And if not, then to what do the term and the verses already mentioned refer, and how is that defined? Thanks in advance to whoever answers any of these questions.

	TJL:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 17:11 GMT		1 point
	Fun fact: although the idea of a rapture is generally considered an Evangelical thing, there's a Catholic version of it, too. According to hagiography, when Saint Patrick was fasting on Croagh Patrick, he got the concession from God that Ireland would be covered by the sea 7 years before the tribulations, so that the Irish people would not be tempted

	chriskotx:	Apr 22nd, 2011 at 17:13 GMT		6 points
	Checking Biblegateway.com I found that most old English translations, including the KJV, do use the word "whale" in Matt. 12:40. The modern ones use "sea-monster" or "great fish". Spanish and French translations also use words meaning "great fish". The Greek interlinear website I checked showed the word "khtous" in Greek, which they translated as "sea-monster."

	DarrenMark:	Apr 24th, 2011 at 06:26 GMT		14 points
	There's an interesting history behind the "apple" in the Garden of Eden. In the Vulgate, "good and evil" is "bonum et malum." "Malum" is the Latin word for both "evil" and "apple." So the idea of the "tree of the knowledge of good and apple" developed as a medieval pun, and eventually a lot of people forgot that the identification of the "fruit" with "apple" was initially only a pun.

	MikeN:	Apr 24th, 2011 at 19:58 GMT		8 points
	With that title, how could you leave out that immaculate conception doesn't refer to the birth of Jesus?

	McHobbit:	Apr 28th, 2011 at 22:14 GMT		1 point
	I actually typed servant several times and kept thinking "WFT?"

	corndog:	Apr 29th, 2011 at 03:28 GMT		10 points
	@MikeN: The immaculate conception in reference to Mary isn't in the Bible.

	jonTK:	Apr 30th, 2011 at 03:13 GMT		5 points
	while the connection is not made in Genesis, Revelation does call Satan "that serpent of old", likely alluding to his being the serpent of Genesis. and 1 Timothy says the Love of money is A root of ALL KINDS of evil.

	sergeant343:	May 2nd, 2011 at 05:38 GMT		4 points
	What about mule, jackass, and or ass, as an alt to donkey since all of those are other words for it.

	MRL:	May 4th, 2011 at 04:11 GMT		2 points
	@jonTK: As with many Biblical passages, the translation matters greatly. The New International and New King James versions do indeed phrase 1 Timothy 6:10 the way you say; the phrasing "love of money is the root of all evil" is from the (non-New) King James version.

	acciolizzie:	May 6th, 2011 at 21:12 GMT		5 points
	you should accept 'kings' or 'wise men' for magi's - as that is what most people know it as.

	I8urcheerios:	May 10th, 2011 at 19:55 GMT		0 points
	Trix is right the bible does say it was a whale!

	clink12:	May 11th, 2011 at 13:55 GMT		-2 points
	@WindSword - First of all, cool quiz. One thing though that I'm surprised nobody has pointed out: although the Bible doesn't contain a verse that says "btw guys the earth is the center of the universe," there were specific verses that were at the center of the Galileo vs Catholic Church controversy that did, to many people, seem to indicate a geocentric universe. For example, in Joshua 10:13, it is written "So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day." In Galileo's trial, this verse was taken by the church (and many others) to mean that the sun habitually moved around the earth (or else its standing still would be no miracle at all). There are a number of other verses referring to the sun "rising" and "setting," and many people in the past have taken this literally. Example: "From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same"... (Psalms 113:3). If I were you, I'd remove this question from the quiz altogether; it's hard to defend in the light of history. As a side note, @JustHavingFun: "there is no doubt that the Trinity exists" - I strongly beg to differ! This has been hotly debated for centuries. The origin of the term "Unitarian" (although you wouldn't be able to tell this from the evolution of the UU church over time) was to refer to those who were Anti-Trinitarian, i.e. they didn't believe in the Trinity.

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	kingsfan19:	May 17th, 2011 at 03:33 GMT		4 points
	Very good quiz. The "Rapture" is a very controversial subject, but that is not why I comment. Satan is indeed identified as "the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan" (Rev. 12:9). That is the first and only Biblical reference to Satan being the serpent. Good work on the quiz!

	Penn_State_Geog:	May 18th, 2011 at 13:26 GMT		4 points
	Another common misconception not included in this quiz is the Book of Revelation. So many people refer to it in the plural (i.e., "RevelationS") as if there is more than one of these books (letters) in the Bible. It's singular in the original Koine Greek, which makes sense since there is only one book that bears its name :)

	Beatlezfann:	May 19th, 2011 at 01:58 GMT		4 points
	For the record, that frankenscense was from the both of us...