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Misunderstanding the Bible
Common misbeliefs about the Bible
- Was Jonah in a whale? -
A typical trait of angels is that they sing.
The Bible says that the earth is flat.
The Tree Of Knowledge of Good and Evil was a bad, bad tree.
Sarah snickered because she didn't believe she'd be a mom.
Jonah was gobbled up by a whale.
Satan is God's counter-pole. Darkness and fire belong to Satan.
In the Bible black stands for bad and white stands for good.
A true story is something that actually happened.
The Bible is the Word of God
The Bible is infallible
If you're good, you'll go to heaven. If you're bad, you'll go to hell.
God destroyed the Tower of Babel to punish the builders.
During a duel with Satan, God wrecked Job just to make a point.
Jesus was born in a stable; ox, donkey, and the angels sang!
Astrology is always wrong.
Hand palm reading is always wrong.
Jesus was a Jew, from the line of David
Jesus had nails through His feet.
Jesus asked God to forgive His executioners for crucifying Him.
Jesus was very poor
Thomas was a heinous unbeliever, made a fool of by Christ.
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Nope, no whale.
Jonah was gobbled up by a great fish, and a whale is not a fish. Doesn't even look like one.
The Hebrew word for fish literally means 'one of those things that greatly multiply'. Whales don't greatly multiply.
As Jonah reposes beneath a plant, a very tiny creature called 'one-of-those-little-purple-thingies'
from which in those day purple dye was made, came and smote the plant.
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