Wisdom Jeopardy: Biblical or Not for $1000

"For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God For it is written, 'He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS'" 1 Corinthians 3:19

You have heard lots of "wise words" from various sources from the time you were born. Do you know the source of that wisdom? Remember that other wise saying that you should consider the source?

Consider the source of these popular quotes, phrases, and ideas. Is it from the Bible or not? Some are easy... and some not so much. Read each quote or idea, and look below for the actual source.
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"There's nothing new under the sun." 1


"A house divided against itself cannot stand." 2


"Cleanliness is next to Godliness" 3


"A drop in the bucket" 4


"God helps those who help themselves." 5


"To thine own self be true." 6


"Escaped by the skin of my teeth" 7


"Don't cast pearls before swine." 8


"This, too, shall pass." 9


"To everything there is a season." 10


"Money is the root of all evil." 11


"God will not give you more than you can handle." 12


"jumping Jehoshaphat" 13

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Here are some popular ideas. Are they actually Biblical or not?
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Angel hierarchies exist with archangels, cherubim, etc. 14


UFOs visit the earth with otherworldly beings inside 15


Hell is a place of fire and brimstone and eternal suffering 16


Adam and Eve ate a forbidden apple. 17


Jesus was born in a stable amongst the animals. 18


Three wise men (or magi) visited Jesus. 19


Jesus was born December 25th or sometime in winter. 20


The holy grail 21


Angels mated with humans & filled the world with powerful beings 22

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ANSWERS

Quotes & Phrases

1) Ecclesiastes 1:9
2) Matthew 12:25
3) John Wesley sermon in 1778
4) Isaiah 40:15
5) Grecian playwrights and philosophers
6) Shakespeare
7) Job 19:20
8) Matthew 7:6
9) Persian Sufi poets
10) Ecclesiastes 3:1
11) Trick question: Actual verse is "The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil" 1 Timothy 6:10
12) Who knows? I've found several possible sources, but it's definitely not Biblical.
13) 1 Kings 15:24; 2 Chronicles 20:30-32

Ideas

14) Not to say hierarchies don't exist amongst angels, but the Bible doesn't say much about it. There are different and strange heavenly being described, especially in Revelations, but nothing that states anything about who submits to whom besides God Himself. The idea of angel hierarchical levels was mainly created in the mind of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, a Christian theologian & philosopher in the Middle Ages, when the Western world was obsessed with hierarchies that matched their own societal system. (See Bible.org, Wikipedia, carm.org, etc)

15) Ezekiel 1:16 - "As I looked, behold, a storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in its midst something like glowing metal in the midst of the fire. 5Within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form. 6Each of them had four faces and four wings. 7Their legs were straight and their feet were like a calf’s hoof, and they gleamed like burnished bronze. 8Under their wings on their four sides were human hands. As for the faces and wings of the four of them, 9their wings touched one another; their faces did not turn when they moved, each went straight forward...The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another. 17Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved. 18As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about. 19Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also..."

16) Most of the modern idea of hell comes from the work "Dante's Inferno," which describes several levels of varying tortures based on the occupants earthly sins. There's also Chinese legends of Diyu, or the ancient idea of a hellish afterlife, which also has levels. Nowhere in the Bible does it describe a place of eternal suffering. The Christian idea of fire and brimstone probably comes from verses like:

"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” Revelation 21:8

"- and throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Matthew 13:50

"suffering the punishment of eternal fire." Jude 1:7

There's fire, there's suffering, and there's eternal burning of a fire, but nowhere does it mention eternal suffering of souls. The oft translated hell or hades is Hebrew Sheol, which is simply "the grave," death itself figuratively or literally. Even that will eventually go away at judgment day described in Revelations, when all evil and death are thrown into a fire and taken out of existence completely.

17) Nope, no apples. "'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'" Genesis 3:3 This could be literal fruit or figurative, but not an apple... probably.

18) Oh, you must like "The Christmas Story." Here's the actual Bible verse: "She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them." Luke 2:7 Ok, so there was a manger, but it doesn't actually say He was born in a stable. He was literally anywhere other than a guest room.

19) Where did you get that number? From a play, maybe? "Then Herod called the Magi secretly and found out from them the exact time the star had appeared." Matthew 2:7 Magi is just more than one "wise man." There were three gifts they brought Jesus, but that could've been a group gift. Never was a number of Magi mentioned anywhere.

20) Actually, no one really knows for sure when He was born. There are hints of certain seasonal practices suggesting fall but nothing for sure.

21) The legends of King Arthur: this is where the Holy Grail comes from. The only time the Bible mentioned a cup with Jesus was when He drink from it at the Last Supper, and it wasn't emphasized any more than the table or chair he was sitting in while drinking from it.

22) Genesis 6:4 - "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days--and also afterward--when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown." Surprisingly for this wildly supernatural phenomenon, neither the fallen angels nor their children are mentioned much more in the Bible. Yet, there you go. It's Biblical.


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