- QIC: Harry Carry
- When: 07/24/2021
- Pax: Dojo, Half Shell, Harry Carry, Mr Clean, Router, Shatner
- Posted In: Millllkshake
Six pax posted for Milkshake with half rucking it. The route and exercises are in the image below.
Through the walk I presented sayings/things that people generally think are from the Bible…but really are not. These are:
The forbidden apple in the garden of Eden: Bible does not specify it was an apple.
Three wise men: there was three gifts…but the number of wise men is not specified.
A whale swallowed Jonah: Original translations say a “great fish”.
Money is the root of all evil: 1 Timothy 6:10 actually says that the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.
God works in mysterious ways: Isaiah 55:8-9 says that God’s ways are different from ours, not mysterious as U2 may want us to believe.
God helps those who help themselves: nope not there. Variations are proverbial statements in ancient Greek tragedies. The Quran (13:11) has something similar. An English politician gave us the exact wording, which Benjamin Franklin quotes in Poor Richard’s Almanac.
But these next sayings are FROM the Bible:
Escaping by the skin of your teeth: Job says he escaped with his life by the skin of his teeth in Job 19:20.
A house divided against itself cannot stand: not honest Abe but Jesus when rebuffing Pharisee charges that he was casting out demons because He was possessed Himself, Jesus uttered the phrase.
A drop in the bucket: To demonstrate the enormity of God, the prophet coins the phrase in Isaiah 40:15: “the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales.”
Scapegoat: In the Old Testament, two goats were chosen for the Day of Atonement. One was sacrificed, but Leviticus 16:10 speaks of the scapegoat, which was released into the wilderness to carry away the sins of the people.
Writing is on the wall: No one knew what the writing on the wall in Daniel 5 meant, until God gave Daniel the interpretation that the kingdom would be taken away from the king.
Fini.