number 10 an apple a day the story of Adam and Eve

number 10 an apple a day the story of Adam and Eve 

number 10 an apple a day the story of Adam and Eve is one of the first stories in the Bible the Apple began to be identified as the forbidden fruit in our works after the German artist Albrecht Durer created his masterpiece in 1504 the iconic work depicted the Joe standing by an apple tree but the Bible is not that specific in its telling of the story in fact nowhere in the holy book does it say that the fruit in question was an apple according to the aptly named robert applebaum the confusion of how the Apple became the fruit that we tend to associate with this story may be the result of a mistranslated accidental pun originally in Genesis it says God indicates the Adam and Eve that they should not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil but in the first common Latin translation by saint jerome he translated evil as apple since both are denoted by the word malice number 9 Jaws the story of Jonah tells us the man who apparently defied God and was swallowed by a sea creature but while some literature maintains that the creature was a whale the Bible never actually says this instead it reads the Lord has appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah in fact Bible critics have said that this a great fish is more likely to have been a great white shark the great white shark is known for its ferocity and not being a fussy eater unlike the sperm whale and it is possible that a great white could grow big enough to swallow a man in 1939 a shark was found that had two six foot long sharks in its stomach which is about the height of a human what’s more the great white shark is found in all seas on earth including the Mediterranean where Jonah was believed to have been swallowed unlike the sperm whale which is very rarely found there number eight as drunk as a lord the topic of alcohol consumption is one that has been argued and discussed for thousands of years by Christians it is often believed as in other religions like Islam the drinking alcohol is a sin the book of habakkuk in the Bible tell woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor pressing him to your bottle even to make him drunk on face value this sure does make it seem like drinking alcohol is condemned by the holy book but looking at other verses from the Bible it is clear to see that drinking alcohol is not condemned at all in fact in Timothy Paul even tells the eponymous character to use a little wine for relief from an illness rather it is alcohol abuse and overindulgence that is condemned in the Bible as opposed to drinking it at all gala Shannon says Envy drunkenness orgies things like these I warn you as I warned you before that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God number 7 for the love of money we all know the biblical expression money is a root of all kinds of evil however this is a perfect example of how taking something out of context completely changes its meaning it is one of the most misquote adverse —is in the Bible in fact the whole quote reads for the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil having money isn’t the root of evil as is often believed there were lots of rich people in the Bible who considered godly such as Solomon and David instead it is the love of money which is condemned this is because a lot of money is believed to be the alternative to faith in God’s future grace it is faith in future human resources as they can be obtained with money therefore the love of money is almost synonymous with non belief in the promises of God Jesus said in Matthew no one can serve two masters you cannot serve God and money so belief in money is disbelief in God number six star-crossed quotes when advising others to follow their conscience the phrase to thine own self be true is sometimes quoted as a biblical recommendation but to look through the Bible or you may and you won’t find it simply because it isn’t rare the saying actually comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet people who may often mistakenly say it comes from the Bible well because it does sound like godly advice and it is written in a way which does indeed sound like it would come from the Bible Plus that Shakespeare did use over 2,000 Bible verses in his writings but this wasn’t one of them in the tragic tale we can also find another say which is often falsely attributed to the Bible that of neither a borrower nor a lender be not bad advice of course but also not from the Bible number five we three kings of Orient aren’t we are probably all familiar with the nativity scene depicting baby Jesus in a stable surrounded by animals and the three kings but this image is very inaccurate indeed although the Gospel of Matthew recounts the birth of Christ it does not say that he was visited by Kay’s or even but there were three of them they are described as Maguy our closest translation of which is wise men and the number three is often assumed because the Bible tells us that three gifts were given what’s more reverent in Paul an evangelical scholar at the University of Nottingham says that Jesus was not born in a stable but more likely the Upper Room of a familial home he says that this misconception can be attributed to the MIS translation of the Greek word cattle uma which has been taken to me in but is a word that is used elsewhere in the Bible to mean upper room and to top it all off nowhere in the bible does it say that any animals were present at the birth number for Mary Mary Mary Magdalene has been recorded in the Bible as being one of Jesus’s followers and a witness to his crucifixion burial and resurrection but identification of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute and sinful woman began in the 6th century and has persisted in Western tradition ever since in facts from the 18th century onwards institutions that took care of prostitutes were called Magdalene’s but author in u.s. catholic magazine heidi shlump says that this is because Mary Magdalene has been confused with another woman in the Bible most significantly the sinful woman in Chapter 7 of Luke meanwhile a theologian Dorothy Lee says it may be because Mary was described in the Bible as having had seven demons cast from her she says that this description may have led some to believe that she was a prostitute and that demons refer to her sexuality but nowhere is Mary Magdalene herself categorically associated with behavior characteristic of a prostitute number three talk the devil if someone asked you to picture Satan the image would probably one of a read character with horns and a goatee right while this image may be the most identifiable one the truth is the Bible doesn’t mention any of these physical characteristics in fact the only physical mention of Satan in the Bible is as a snake in the Garden of Eden so how have we come to identify with a red character as the image of Satan in the Middle Ages artists wanting to depict the devil such as Hieronymus Bosch and Albrecht Durer didn’t have much to go on from the Bible so instead they combined images from all the traditions curator Bernard Barr rights says that our image of Satan is the product of bits from now-defunct religions the cloven feet are probably from the Greek god Pan the God who was known to instill fear in people much like Satan while the horns may be from the gods of various coats in the east number two Noah’s Ark the animals went in two by two hurrah hurrah the well-known song depicts the Bible tale and implies that Noah took with him a pair of every animal in the world onto the ark and this is true to what the Bible says to an extent in Genesis God said to Noah you were to bring into the ark two of all living creatures male and female of course we knew that but perhaps a less well known is that there wasn’t just one pair of every type of animal later on in Genesis God added take with you seven of every kind of clean animal a male and its mate and two of every kind of unclean animal a male and its mate and also seven of every kind of bird male and female to keep their various kinds of life throughout the earth so while the animals did go on to the ark two by two some of them did go on 14 at a time number one happy Christmas although Christmas is celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December it is largely acknowledged by biblical scholars that this wasn’t an actual date of Jesus’s birth researchers believe that the Roman Catholic Church decided on this date because of its connection to the winter solstice and Saturnalia the festival of the Roman god Saturn by having the 25th of December as the day to celebrate the birth of Christ the church could co-opt the celebrations of pagan mijin’s there is no given date of Jesus’s birth in the Bible in fact the only clues it gives are those such as that there were shepherds in the fields with the Sheep hinting that it may have been summer in 2008 astronomer David Renacci argued that Jesus was born in the summer he said that the Star of Bethlehem could have been Venus and Jupiter coming together to form a bright light in the sky Wernicke news computer models to calculate that this event happened on the 17th of June in the year to be seen 10 biggest misconceptions about Satanism number 10 devil worship this misconception is actually pretty understandable seeing as he’s literally named out in the title you’d assume Satanism is the worship of bill Zebub but the majority of modern Satanists are actually just atheists in fact the Church of Satan states on its website yes Satanists have websites too that we do not believe in Satan as a being or person instead of the site explains that Satan is a symbol of pride liberty and individualism and serves as a metaphorical projection of a highest personal potential basically that means that Satan is used as a symbol of the rejection of religious ideas that people should live to serve others instead the religion preaches what Church of Satan high priest Peter gone were described as a the—is ‘m over atheism whereas theistic satanism does view satan as an actual dirty it’s not the same Redskin horned guide the ax probably picturing instead of the Christian perception this Satan is typically a God of freedom and personal betterment given that Lucifer was once the most beautiful angel in heaven he’s seen as a figure of beauty commonly referred to as the light bringer which doesn’t sound quite so scary number 9 one church addressing the misconceptions Howard about Satanism is difficult because of one overriding fallacy whenever people talk about the concept it’s addressed as a singular belief system shared by everyone under the umbrella of Satanist but as with any other religion Satanism is a collection of differing beliefs and denominations that can vary significantly most popular of these denominations was started in the 1960s by American author in a contest Anton LaVey he formed the Church of Satan and wrote The Satanic Bible laveyan satanism it’s who view themselves as their own God they make up the bulk of what’s known as a recreation area Satanism but in 1974 Michael Aquino broke from the Church of Satan to form the temple of set who believe the Christian Satan was a corruption of the Egyptian deity set this is considered the foundation of the other main branch of Satanism theistic satanism whose followers believe in one or more powerful deities then within these umbrellas of Satanists belief countless smaller sects also exist making the whole question of what is modern Satanism a difficult one to answer number eight sex-crazed only to its more liberal stances on personal relationships Satanism has earned a reputation in the eyes of many as something of a sex cult in celebrating free love and personal indulgence Satanists often imagined gathering for some sort of gothic swingers club and engaging interpret acts with varying levels of consent it is often assumed that sexual activity is the most important factor of the Satanic religion nothing could be further from the truth Satanism doesn’t encourage fetishism or participation in any gratuitous act but simply believes that followers should be true to their sexuality and have the freedom to express it this isn’t offered by most major religions meaning Satanism has had an influence of members with unconventional sexual practices this created a chicken-and-egg misconception where people assumes that these practices were demanded by the religion but the Church of Satan values can send so highly that the fifth of their satanic rural states do not make sexual advances unless you were given the mating signal whatever that is number seven ritual sacrifice one of the most inseparable perceptions attached to Satanism is that of a ritual sacrifice this perception has spread for a number of reasons but there are as many reasons explain exactly why it’s nonsense take sensationalist news stories about satanic sacrifices for example typically these killings are attributed to Satanists but have typically just been committed by the mentally ill and are based upon a Christian perception of Satan the Satanism in fact the Church of Satan’s found our Anton LaVey outlined 12 rules for Satanists and number 10 states do not kill with non-human animals unless you are attacked for for food granted the rules do mention destroy enemies but Church of Satan Reverend Ashley Palmer explains that this is heavenly open to interpretation the destruction mentioned is typically reserved for self-defense or as an eye-for-an-eye act of retaliation rather than sacrifice of the innocent but Palmer assures that Satanists are strict advocates of law and order this requires them to operate within the legal parameters of their country of residence and last time I checked most countries uphold ritual sacrifice as a strict no no number six war on Christianity seeing as Satanism was established to highlight and deride the flaws of the Christian Church it’s usually assumed that Satanists hold a deep hatred of Christians but to this broad-stroke judgment would actually be out of line with the individualism at the center of the Satanist belief system Satanists are critical of the adverse effects of mass religion and are generally wary of Christians not least because of the regular smears and media attacks they face from them but the Satanists generally try not to impose their beliefs upon others and are very tolerant providing you do the same in return for instance the Christian metal band Stryper explained that despite their religion heavy songs many Satanists openly list them as their favourite band Satanists can even celebrate Christian holidays like Christmas they’re able to celebrate any unhallowed a day wish and the Church of says it explains the Christians stole this holiday from the pagans so they see no real conflict of interest they also claim that Santa Claus has come to signify indulgence which Satanists are famously all about number five demon summoners the misconception here isn’t actually the Satanists summoned demons but that it’s a bad thing when they do as I mentioned before most modern Satanists are atheists so then trying to summon demons is pretty much a waste of their time or at most a way of parading religion bars for theists Satanists demons are seen as positive figures and in the words of redditor Satan’s underscore secretary of gods of humanity among theistic Satanists demons often treated as if they were real people stories of possessions and evil demons are explained by their annoyance at having been bound to someone and haven’t been summoned by their magic dabblers and this annoyance infrequently leads to an aggressive response which seems pretty understandable when summoned correctly theistic Satanists believe demons or spirits that should be bonded with intentionally and respectfully this way the Summoner can have a beneficial relationship in which they learn from the demon again a source of all knowledge redditor satan’s secretary describes having a go at ik demon as a guardian whose presence apparently smells of honey who knew number 4 the Satanic panic the word Satanism is frequently banded around during discussions of systemic abuse especially that of children the two are so synonymous that every time a public figure is outed for such crimes stories abound of their secret Satanism and many just see the religion as a front for ritual abuse but this can all be traced back to one book published in 1980 Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Paz de published the book Michelle remembers based on his wife’s and patients childhood memories allegedly Michelle Smith had repressed memories of being abused by her family in satanic rituals when she was a child in which the devil himself appeared for some strange reason this resulted in widespread scepticism and the book is now widely considered as debunked Bart’s regardless it started an epidemic of fear with others suddenly remembering their own satanic abuse in 1983 this led to the high-profile trial of the owners of a California preschool the FBI looked into the claims and eventually all suspects were cleared but the fallout of these accusations had persisted in Satanist perceptions to this day number three cult status in the array of sensationalist news stories about Satanism is the food to find an example of the word satanic not being instantly followed by the word cult this isn’t always strictly wrong but it’s usually taken to mean that modern Satanism as a whole mr. cult which isn’t the case in fact the same way that there are Christian cults satanic cults are usually a misrepresentation of the religion of Satanism that’s right religion in numerous countries Satanism is a recognized and protected religious organization several high-profile court cases in America have even been fought for the rights of Satanists to practice their religion freely this isn’t just about arguing that the First Amendment protects and don’t sacrifice either one case in Missouri challenged the state strict abortion laws because it violated satanic beliefs that a pregnant woman’s body was subject to her will alone other cases have challenged widely held beliefs that religious freedom laws favor certain religions like Christianity while some satanic denominations do more closely resemble cults groups like the Church of Satan are quit to address this and disavow their beliefs in practices number two were domination this one is pretty conspiracy heavy so it’s as difficult to definitively disprove as the inevitable comments accusing us of being Satanist Channel similarly two illuminati conspiracies this theory follows that the world is secretly run by Satanists who pray and make sacrifices to the king of Darkness in return for wealth and power but the theory is questionable for a number of reasons firstly Satanism is about self-empowerment not to the empowerment of the religion itself it was formed specifically to oppose what it saw as the overbearing power of Christianity which asked people to live modestly for a greater collective goal so to say Satanists run the world or have a secret global agenda it’s not exactly in line with their MO in fact the first of the Church of Satan’s eleven rules improves followers not to give opinions or advice unless you are asked even ignoring all of that if Satanists really ruled the world would they have not at least cultivated a better image for themselves and avoided all the constant media attacks safe to say they’re not doing a great job if this one is true number one black magic magic is a central aspect of most denominations of modern Satanism but isn’t the dark affair you’re probably picturing it’s not about cursing or sacrificing and it mostly has the reputation it does because of the ramifications of the word magic instead it’s really better thought of as the Satanist equivalent to a prayer in most branches of modern Satanism magic is performed much like a prayer to basically ask for things you want and has about the same success rate the only major difference is the more complex or ritualistic nature of the magic with mortals and ceremony around the act but as for black magic Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey rejected the idea instead merging perceptions of evil black magic and good white magic he preached the personal responsibility of each practitioner teaching that the Satanist being the magician should have the ability to decide what is just instead he separated his magic into lesser magic all the use of one’s natural abilities to manipulate others and greater magic greater magic was more about psychology than witchcraft and serves to focus one’s emotional energy for a specific purpose you ten unsolved mysteries of the Bible number ten was the Garden of Eden real there is an intriguing theory amongst some biblical scholars that the Garden of Eden could have existed in real life and it wasn’t just a symbolic and mythological location believers of this theory points to evidence within the creation story in Genesis that could be interpreted as situating the Garden in or close to Ethiopia Genesis 2:13 refers to rivers flowing through Edo including one called eager horn which it describes as the same that composites all the land of ethiopia adding fuel to this theory is the fact that paleontologists have concluded that ethiopia was indeed a vastly significant site of human origin the oldest dateable fragment of a human skeleton was discovered in ethiopia in 2015 in the form of the 2.8 million year old jawbone number 9 the Lost Tribes of Israel the two books of Kings speak of the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by the Assyrians in 732 BC following this 10 Israelite tribes relocated to territories in former Mesopotamia but since then have been explicably disappeared from the pages of the Bible and history a variety of communities have laid claim to being descended from these lost tribes including the Igbo ethnicity in Nigeria the Falaschi Jews in Ethiopia and the Mormons sadly as DNA studies have been inconclusive there is no way of validating any of these claims however some Christian and Jewish communities believe that when the tribes are found it will represent the imminent coming of the Messiah number eight the behemoth mentioned in the book of Job is a strange unfathomable beast called the behemoth an impressive creation intended to epitomize the pinnacle of God’s power the creature has been mentioned in various works of literature including the works of political philosopher Thomas Hobbes and Paradise Lost by John Milton however no one is really sure what a behemoth is in the Bible the beast is described as a gigantic animal with limbs like rods of iron and a tail like a cedar scholars have suggested numerous animals that the behemoth could have been ranging from hippos or elephants to dinosaurs however there’s also a chance that the animal could have been a mythological creature like unicorns which are also referred to in the Bible number seven when will the apocalypse happen the Bible goes into great detail about the events of the apocalypse and how the earth and everything in it will be laid bare but what has spawned much speculation is the mystery as to exactly when this all will happen over the last 1,000 years there have been over 80 well documented predictions of when the world would end based on Christian scripture according to Scripture this fable the day will occur at the conclusion of a period called the millennium throughout history people have used this writing to predict potential apocalypses for example in the year 1000 Christian armies waged war against various pagan countries killing thousands in order to forcibly convert people to Christianity before the Day of Judgment but scholars have argued that it is unlikely that the Bible literally meant 1,000 years the Apostle Peter enigmatically wrote that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as one day number six when was Jesus born most theological historians believe that Jesus Christ did exist whether or not they believed he was the son of God there is therefore a large amount of scholarship focused on learning more about his life this field is seriously complicated by the fact that it is a complete mystery as to when Jesus was born in the Bible that is directly stated that Jesus was born during the reign of Herod when the first great census was taking place the logging of every individual in the Roman world that required Mary and Joseph to return to Bethlehem Berta this couldn’t possibly be true as Herod died well over a decade before the great census took place consequently whilst we can assume that Christ was born somewhere around the beginning of the first century it is impossible to work out exactly when historians also agree that it is highly unlikely that Jesus was born on the 25th of December this date was popularized as Christmas more than three hundred years after his death potentially to tie in with the winter solstice festivities [Music] number five the missing books of the Bible at over seven hundred and eighty-three thousand words and 1189 chapters the Bible is one of the longest texts ever written it consists of 66 separate books but surprisingly this is meant to be eighty-three at least seventeen books have mysteriously disappeared from our modern Bible and no one knows what happened to them we know that the books existed once because they are referred to in other parts of the Bible for example chronicles 29:29 mentions the records of nathan the prophet and gad the seer both of which seemed to have mysteriously disappeared speculation is rife as to what could be included in the missing books with one line of thought of being that what they taught did not necessarily correlate with the desire to Christy message and they were deliberately omitted [Music] number four was Jesus married the idea that Jesus could have been married is one that has spawned much discussion and controversy over the years even providing the focus of the hit Dan Brown novel The DaVinci Code the theory is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene a woman who is frequently mentioned in the New Testament moreover this is alluded to in a scrap of papyrus unveiled in 2012 known as the Gospel of jesus’s wife which forensic analysis concludes does indeed date back to biblical times the holy bloodline of Jesus theory furthers their marriage hypothesis suggesting that the couple actually had children whose descendants can be traced through the following centuries and may even be alive today however this notion is widely disputed in the Christian community number three Jesus is missing years one of the most puzzling mysteries about Jesus is what he did between the ages of 12 and 30 historians don’t even know which country he was living in there are numerous theories about where Jesus could have lived for example it has been suggested that he lived in Kashmir in South Asia he became a disciple of the Buddhist master in Japan or joined a secretive monastic sect in the Judean Desert these theories have been drawn from a variety of places the idea that he visited Japan is one steeped in local tradition and is based on a set of supposedly ancient documents that were alleged to have disappeared during world war ii according to british legends involving king arthur christ even supposedly visited britain and deposited the holy grail there however there is no solid archaeological evidence supporting any of these claims number two the lost wealth over fear mentioned several times in Genesis Joe kings and Isiah Oh fear is a mysterious City famed for its wealth and splendor the Bible describes it as a land of invaluable Plenty where gold ivory and precious stones were in abundance and beautiful peacocks roamed its exquisite gardens archaeologists believe that OFIR was once a real location as they have found fragments of eighth century pottery with inscriptions detailing the gold of OFIR the question remains however as to where Oh fear was located the presence of peacocks suggests it could have been in India the birds native country yet large quantities of ivory points more to Africa where the ivory trade was booming it seems likely that due to such conflicting and limited evidence no fears location will never be revealed nor will the answer as to why it disappeared and what happened to its myriad of treasures number one where is the Ark of the Covenant described in the book of Exodus the Ark of the Covenant is the gold covered wooden chest containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments throughout history there have been a number of claims of people having either discovered or possessing the Ark one popular hypothesis is that it was buried at Mount Nebo in Jerusalem by the Prophet Jeremiah as was mentioned in 2 Maccabees however the Ethiopian Orthodox Church argues that it is currently keeping it under guard and their Treasury by no-one but their monks can visit the lumber people of South Africa and Zimbabwe also lay claim to the ark saying that their ancestors carried it south calling it the voice of God and hiding it deep in a cave in their spiritual home the dumb gay mountains but no one has ever been able to uncover it 10 myths about Jesus number 10 identity crisis he’s the focus of the biggest religion in the world he’s the main character in the best-selling book of all time and his teachings have inspired over 2 billion followers so you’d think that with all that fanfare but at least got his name right but no historians now mostly agree that the man we call Jesus was most likely known by the Hebrew name Yeshua so why do we worship Jesus and not yes you are well when early Christian texts are being translated into Greek the big JC was called the nearest possible name that name is soos while that is the correct nearest possible translation into Greek the Greek name iosys translates into English as Jesus but the Hebrew name Yeshua translates into English as Joshua now admittedly these names are considered very similar by historians but still it’s weird to think of billions of people kneeling down to worship some bloke called Josh number 9 his childhood most of you probably know how Jesus sorry Josh was born and most of you probably know about his teachings as an adult but unless you’ve been skimming through biblical Apocrypha you probably don’t know about Christ’s - kick-ass childhood you see 1 the modern Bible has 27 official books far more than that were originally written one of the Bible’s deleted scene shall we say it’s the gospel of empathy Thomas which gives us an unprecedented and kind of mental look at Jesus’s childhood things get weird right from the start when a horde of dragons come out of a cave to attack Mary and a two-year-old Jesus but upon seeing the Son of God in all his glory the dragons are instantly tamed although Jesus doesn’t then use them to attack White Walkers as he should other incredible scenes from the gospel of infancy Thomas include kid Jesus blowing up a snake because well snakes suck and even killing another child for brushing up against him for instance and I quote Jesus was provoked and said unto Him thou shalt not finish their course and immediately he fell down and died Jesus Christ number 8 an only child so Jesus apparently spent his childhood murdering his classmates detonating stakes and rusting brackets placer didn’t even have time to mention the time kid Jesus pointed an entire village and only unblinded them because everyone started praying to him that gospel really is something anyway between PTA meetings and buying their neighbor’s fruit basket because Jesus pet dragon ate their dog Joseph and Mary had been pretty busy thank goodness they only had one child to worry about right well actually no it’s a strangely overlooked fact that Jesus was actually a part of a large family and we’re not even taking this from Apocrypha either the books of Mark and Matthew both mentioned Joseph or Mary having four sons Jesus James Judas not that Judas confusingly and Simon I guess they ran out of James at the end Jesus had sisters too and though they were never named they were also frequently mentioned in the Bible for example in this passage from Mark isn’t this the carpenter the son of Mary and the brother of James Joseph Judas and Simon aren’t his sisters here with us as well number seven the carpenter moving away from the big JT’s childhood most of us think that before he started preaching his sermons and cocking boats by strutting about on water he worked as a carpenter and yeah he may have but there is some ambiguity as to what specifically his job was you see we know from the Greek text of the Bible that he and his father both worked as a tech Tom’s thing is that job title is kind of vague meaning something along the lines of artisan or craftsman that obviously could cover carpentry but it also means that Jesus was a stonemason a would work a builder or a teacher engineer basically we don’t know the specifics of Jesus’s job but what we do know what him is good with his hands so even claim that Tecton could mean architect and a Joseph work when the Jesus actually grew up in the equivalent of a middle-class household number six twelve disciples nowadays it’s fair to say Jesus has his fair share of fans and sure back in the day he was throwing big frowns four sermons on the Mount but in terms of real diehard buddies he had his core 12 right he had Matthew Mark Luke John Thomas James Andrew big Pete your boy Bartholomew since Simon of hipster beard bad boy Judas Iscariot and the Fonz but actually Jesus had a crew of as many 70 disciples constantly following him around listening to his teachings Luke the Evangelist mentions Jesus picking a crowd of 72 people to travel ahead of him and make sure the locals were ready for his arrival saying in Luke 10 after this the Lord appointed 72 others and sent them ahead of him two by two into every town in place where he himself was about to go the Maine twelve depicted here arguing he’ll pick up the check at Red Lobster were actually his apostles and ironically they would have spent relatively little time with Jesus their job after all was to go out and spread the teachings of Jesus to other areas of the world number five Jesus married those of you who like The Da Vinci Code are gonna love this one for those of you who don’t remember Dan Brown’s 2003 religious thriller it centers on the idea that Jesus had secretly married Mary Magdalene and her children with her something that the church were desperate to cover up well it turns out that mr. Brown’s plot was actually more factually grounded than he would ever have believed in 2016 researchers discovered an obscure texts hidden away in the British Library an ancient manuscript they did back to Jesus his lifetime the document fills in the gaps between Jesus’s childhood and his religious career it claimed that in his 20s Jesus married Mary Magdalene what’s more he went on to have two children with her two it also bears comment that there’s no evidence from this time period that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute a theory which only began in the Middle Ages number four the Nativity everyone loves Christmas the food the drinking the chance to heal grandpa’s fascinating opinions and why things were better in his day almost like only part of all of that though is the Nativity story the tale of UT’s birth in a manger on the 25th of December is visitation by three kings and the first ever disappointing Christmas presents I mean seriously who needs myrrh it turns out that most of that image in your head is dead wrong firstly the Gospel of Matthew says Jesus was born in a house the animals watching over him added by Christmas Carol songwriters and what the bible does mention a visit by Magi from the east there’s no mention of kings although there were three of them but most wrong of all is the date the reason why we celebrate Christmas on the twenty-fifth of December is because the Romans adopted Christianity as a state religion to make these switch over to this new religion easier the Romans kept the date the same as the pre-existing pagan festival Saturnalia number three white Jesus speaking of an accurate picture in your head imagine Jesus for a second you might be thinking of a tall handsome white hippy with killer ABS well that’s the imagery you’ve been using for this whole video after all but think about it Jesus was from the Middle East he’s unlikely to have had pale skin and blue eyes there are very few descriptions in the Bible of Jesus’s physical appearance actually one of the own times it’s mentioned is to imply that Jesus was kind of ugly he had no stately form or Majesty to attract us no beauty that we should desire him from isaiah 53:2 by the way but think about it logically his family were Jewish and at that time and especially in that location the majority of Jews would dark-skinned sorry guys but Jesus wasn’t White’s our modern image of Jesus most likely grew increasingly fair-skinned as Christianity became a more Eurocentric religion number two resurrection most of us will know that over his 33 years on earth Jesus racked up a pretty good miracle resume he cured the blind he’s act water into wine and strutted about on water like some kind of swamp but the most famous miracle of all is this a resurrection three days after he’s a brutal crucifixion I mean there is a reason that the cruciform is the universal symbol of Christianity a guy who gets now to a cross only needs the equivalent of long weekend to get back in action that’s a guy worth following many Christians see Jesus’s resurrection as the final previous divinity an absolute ironclad evidence that he was the son of God thing is even if you believe Jesus rose from the dead according to the Bible it’s not that special the Bible itself regards 12 separate cases of people rising from the dead so even if Jesus did wake himself back up resurrection is kind of like the biblical equivalent of being able to roll your tongue it’s an eight sure but it’s far who unique number one the whole story most historians that a couple of thousand years ago there probably was a man called Jesus in the Middle East but turned to the specifics of the story and there are a number of striking similarities to other pre-existing religious figures take myth for us a pagan God born with a miraculous birth known as the light who offered followers salvation through worship or the Egyptian god Osiris for example who came down to earth delivers a man before being brutally murdered he then resurrected and ascended into the heavens and Egyptians would appeal to him for access to the afterlife or you could look to Christian from Hinduism who was part of a Trinity was born as a man to a carpenter before miracles like curing the blind celebrated a Last Supper died and resurrected and then ascended into heaven now this isn’t to say that the story of Jesus is just stolen from other religions there are three possible reasons for these similarities number one they’re just a coincidence number two these religions mingled as they spread with Christianity lifting certain details from local faiths as it gained prominence or number three some sort of a union collective unconscious that allows humans in completely distinct circumstances to invent pathologies with striking similarities maybe the first one 10 strangest Bible stories you’ve never heard number 10 Jacob wrestles this story starts a few years after Jacob convinced his twin brother Esau to trade his birthright blessing for a bowl of stew Esau gets angry at the trade and vows to kill Jacob he flees to Haran before God tells him to return to his homeland of Canaan the concept terrifies Jacob so he sends gifts ahead to placate his brother when he reaches the river debauch Jacob gets cold feet and sends his family ahead but he stays behind and sets up camp at this point out of absolutely nowhere a man jumps Jacob and Stan’s wrestled him for literally the whole night eventually the man realizes he’s not winning the fight so he cheats a little and touches Jacobs hip magically dislocating it’s then the man tells Jacob to let go but the magic finger thing is tip taken off that this might not be your average wrestling stranger he says he will only let go if the man blesses him which he does the man admits that he is in fact God and free names Jacob Israel number 9 Jesus and the fig tree barring a few examples like the merchants in the temple Jesus is typically regarded as a very calm forgiving guy but of the rare examples where Jesus did lose his cool shorty the most bizarre took place just after the story of the temple it begins as Jesus is returning to Jerusalem from Bethany when he starts to feel a bit hungry he spots a fig tree by the road and walks over to it but when he searches the tree he can only see leaves and not a single fig despite the fact that this is just the tree functioning the way his dad designed it to function this doesn’t go over particularly well with Jesus in perhaps the earliest documented example of someone feeling hungry Jesus then curses the tree he says to it may you never bear fruit again and the tree just instantly with us his disciples asked how it happened and then the moral of the story after that is effectively you think that’s cool that’s nothing he then tells them if he wanted to he could tell a mountain to throw itself in the sea and it would flexing for no reason number 8 a hood judges chapter 3 was a rollercoaster for the Israelites who start off verse 12 being judged by God for their to punish them he sends Eglon king of Moab to seize power of Israel and oppress them for 18 years eventually the Israelites appealed to God softer side and he decided to grant them some respite this took the form of a herd an assassin sent by God to rid the Israelites of egg Glahn who remember God literally put there himself a herd goes to see Eglon who the Bible keeps specifying is very fat with a tribute from the Israelites then after he’s given the tribute he tells Eglon that he has a secret message for him the woefully trusting and very fat Eglon then sends all of his attendants out and the message comes in the form of a herd stabbing him in his belly which remember is very fat so fat that it envelops the whole sword which a hood has to leave there then Eglon sermons don’t even find him in time to save him why because they assume he’s locked the door to do a poo and don’t want to interrupt number 7 rules for priests some part of the Bible exhibit a weirdly specific obsession with what men of faith have hidden in their loin cloths take Deuteronomy chapter 23 for instance which warns that he that is wounded in the stones or hath his privy member cut off shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord as if they haven’t gone through enough already the Whaley specific topic crops up again in Leviticus chapter 21 God’s knowing how much Moses loves lists gives him a series of rules to pass on to the priests regarding their conduct and who’s allowed to join their ranks this includes common caveats like not profane God’s name for example and that if a priest daughters it’s great as a father she must be burned in the fire God also tells Moses that no one who has a defect may come near to offer the food of his God I know you wondering but don’t worry because God to find what he meant by that and includes the blind lame disfigured crippled hunchback dwarves those with eye defects running sores and of course damaged testicles number 6 siege of Jerusalem symbolized the Book of Ezekiel focuses on God explaining to him why he plans to destroy Jerusalem and how Ezekiel is going to be the one to tell them but he can’t just send them a letter or anything that would be too straightforward instead God renders Ezekiel mute then gives him a scroll with words of lament and mourning whoa on it but instead of just giving that to the Israelites God tells him to eat it thankfully it tastes like honey but then the rollerCoaster lurch it’s again God tells us he killed to build a clay model of the city and then destroy it after that he tells Ezekiel to lie down on his left side for as many days as the years to rout him has sinned then after he lies on his side for three hundred and ninety days God told him to lie on his right side for forty days for the sins of the people of Judah or the while Ezekiel is instructed to eat only bread cooked over burning human feces naturally Ezekiel protests and God demonstrates his mercy by saying he who cook over cow boo instead number five judges 15 after finding out that his new wife has betrayed him to her people the Philistines Sampson celebrates his wedding by killing thirty of them this pretty understandably gives the woman’s father of the impression that Samson has gone cold on his new blushing bride so he wastes no time in offering her to another man but Sampson returns from his spree looking for his wife so her father covers up by trying to offer Samson her more attractive sister ever the romantic Samson refuses a vows revenge on the Philistines again but the man who would later kill 1,000 men with a donkey jawbone it was nothing if not inventive so to seek revenge Samson gathered 300 foxes then tie them together by their tails in pairs and attached a torch to each pair of tails then he lit the Foxes tails on fire and set them loose in the Philistines crops where they ran around madly as things on fire tend to do the resulting chaos burned up the shocks and standing grain together with the vineyards and olive groves and you know not to mention the poor innocent foxes all for a crazy misunderstanding number 4 Elijah is jeered in the second book of Kings the prophet Elijah has just healed the water in Jericho through the Lord when he decided to head to Bethel on the journey though he lost considerable goodperson points with the help of the big guy himself it all started when he was walking down the road and caught the attention of some local children the boys came out behind him and Ben the ruffians that they were started to throw insult at him and his considerably receded hairline they shouted and I’m quoting the Bible here get out of here Baldy or depending on which version of the Bible you have the slightly less quotable go up they’ll bolt head granted not the nicest thing to say to an elder especially a wonder-worker like Elijah but maybe not deserving of the curse he put upon them God may have been dealing with his own hair loss hangups - because he responded by loosing - she bares from the surrounding woods who came and mauled 42 of the boys granted it’s the Old Testament but it’s not exactly an eye for an eye is it number three baylin’s donkey the story of Balaam ston key begins when the Israelites approached the kingdom of Moab which gets King Balak worried so black recruit a diviner called Balaam to go and curse the Israelites Balaam sets off towards the Israelite encampment when an angel appears in his way except Balaam doesn’t see the angel only his donkey does the evangelists donkey pulls off the road and Balaam gets angry and hits her twice more Balaam tries to carry on but his donkey just stops and lies down so Balaam hits her again and again to help the donkey out God gives her the ability to speak presumably in Eddie Murphy’s voice she asked Balaam why he keeps hitting her and instead of being shocked by the talking donkey he responds I just wish I had a sword so I could kill you the two hard.you untold God opens Palin’s eyes and he sees the angel who tells him he would have killed Balaam if the donkey hadn’t stopped the angel sends Balaam back and he never hits his donkey again although it doesn’t mention whether she can still talk number 2 Quayle from the Lord Moses’s exodus of the Israelites from Egypt it’s well documented in modern media but what’s less widely broadcast is the 40-year journey that followed this section covers things like the logistics of feeding millions of Israelites and Moses getting a touch of buyer’s remorse subsisting on a diet of resin like food called manner the Israelites start begging God for meat moses laments having to babysit millions of people and asks God to help him or kill him when he is right to get so hungry they actually start talking about how great the catering was when you were a slave God rightly feels a bit unappreciated and tends to meet lots of meats so much in fact that they’ll be eating it until it comes out their nostrils and they loathe it they wake up to find themselves 36 inches deep in Quail for a day’s walk in either direction they effectively have to eat their way out which they don’t mind one bit until the quail meat strikes them with a plague and the ones that survive get a brutal lesson in gratitude number 1 the sons of no after building an ark big enough to fit two of every animal on board and saving all human and animal life from sin cleansing flood Noah naturally wanted to celebrate he did so by planting a vineyard which very quickly produces enough wine for Noah to get absolutely bladdered he does so before passing out if he’s open tent in nothing but his birthday suits his son Ham is walking past when he sees his dad lying there and for some reason decides to go and tell his brothers his brothers then walk into the tent backwards to cover their dad up without looking at his naked body which aside from being gross it’s also heavily frowned upon in these times when Noah wakes up and finds out what hams done he flies off the handle he curses not ham but his son Canaan and all his descendants to be slaves know his reasoning for doing this it’s been debated for millennia now with some suggesting a far darker subtext like that ham castrated Noah while he slept because otherwise it’s a bit of an overreaction and either way it’s pretty harsh to Canaan