Interesting facts about Bible related topics (any)

[New World Explorer]

Ok. I will start..

 

1.The Amity Printing Company (APC, Chinese: 爱德印刷有限公司) in Nanjing is the largest producer of Bibles in China, and one of the largest in the world.

 

2. Charlton Heston was cast as Moses in the blockbuster movie The Ten Commandments partly because he resembled Michelangelo’s famous statue of Moses. Heston would later play Michelangelo in the film The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965).

 

3. There are 93 women who speak in the Bible, 49 of whom are named. They speak a total of 14,056 words, or about 1.1% of the Bible. There are a total of 188 named women in the Bible.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 24, 2019 by New World Explorer

[JennyM]

hmmmm.. so women are not allowed to speak much in the bible. 

[.Ivan.]

Not strange in this world. Women finally have most rights in modern countries, but in some still have not many human rights.

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There are at least two letters not included in this Bible:

 

Paul's 1st letter to Corinth—1 Corinthians should really have been be 2 Corinthians. (1 Corinthians 5:9; 11:23)

 

Paul's letter to the Laodiceans. (Colossians 4:16)

 

 

I wonder what the contents were.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know . . .

 

"So-and-so" is the longest living man in the Bible.

He was alive during the days of Boaz (Ruth 4:1) and he lived long enough to become one of Jesus' contemporaries. (Matthew 26:18)

[Dustparticle]

 

 What is better than Jehovah and worse than Satan? Nothing!!

[Qapla]

I have always heard that as - What is:

• Greater than Jehovah
• Worse than Satan
• If you eat it you will die

 

 

Nothing!

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On 10/25/2019 at 10:29 AM, Dustparticle said:

What is better than Jehovah and worse than Satan?

How could anyone possibly miss this?

 

Perhaps because it was phrased S a question.

 

What is better than Jehovah and worse than Satan.

 

Simple!

 

J/K

[Thesauron]

hmmmm.. so women are not allowed to speak much in the bible. 

The time and places where the Bible was written was tribal and patriarchal. Jehovah shows that women are worth listening to, and he even let his son speak to them alone.

It is interesting some some bible passages are thought to originally have been written by women.

[JennyM]

29 minutes ago, Thesauron said:

The time and places where the Bible was written was tribal and patriarchal. Jehovah shows that women are worth listening to, and he even let his son speak to them alone.

It is interesting some some bible passages are thought to originally have been written by women.

Hannah's prayer was recorded. 

Victory that led by Miriam. 

There were some but the hebrew meaning of women means a female man.  But maybe the bible is mainly for teaching and thats the role given to men not women. 

 

But I hope in the world, I can write my own book in a particular subject such as science... 

[coony77]

On 10/25/2019 at 5:47 AM, JennyM said:

hmmmm.. so women are not allowed to speak much in the bible. 

Never mind - they do speak a lot now!

Edited December 12, 2019 by coony77

[JennyM]

2 hours ago, coony77 said:

Never mind - they do speak a lot now!

Yes sis.. Well, women speak thousand words in a day according to research. 

[Hotteok]

A French guy made all the chapters and verses of the Bible at around 16th century. 

[Todd komaniak]

Genesis 38:8-10 is what the Catholics use to show that God does not want you to use birth control

[Thesauron]

Genesis 38:8-10 is what the Catholics use to show that God does not want you to use birth control

How many of them have ever given their brothers an offspring? (Because refusal to do so is what the episode is really about.)