The Bible teaches that...
True or False:
The Bible teaches that Jesus died to make salvation possible, not to actually save anyone.
False
Jesus' death actually accomplished the salvation of all of his people.
True or False:
The Bible teaches that Jesus is the Son of God because he was the first creation of the Father and is therefore the only one fit to save the world
False
Jesus is uncreated and eternal, one with the Father, the same being, the only God, through whom all things that exist came to be.
"Cleanliness is next to godliness."
nope.
Joshua has stuff to do and not enough time so he just tells the sun and moon to stop where they are so he can finish this battle he's been fighting in and they freeze in place at his command for a whole extra day.
yep, that happened.
(Joshua 10:12–14)
Sheshbazzar
yep
True or False:
The Bible teaches that Christians will have eternal life spiritually in heaven above with Jesus forever
False
The Bible strongly emphasizes the return of Jesus to the earth, the resurrected body of all believers, and the physical new creation existence of Christians on earth forever
True or False:
The Bible says that Jesus temporarily took on human flesh in the incarnation but then shed it in the ascension as he sat down at the right hand of the Father in heaven
False
Jesus remains incarnate as the God-man forever
The three wise men visited Jesus on the night He was born.
Nope.
The Bible doesn't say they were "wise men" or that they visited him on the night he was born. They likely arrived later (up to a year or two late, Matt. 2:11)
During a party, a ghostly, disembodied hand shows up and writes glowing words of doom on the wall.
yep, that happened (Daniel 5)
Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz
yep
Isaiah 8:3
True or False:
The Bible teaches that the Son of God left heaven and became a man
False
The Son of God, as truly and fully God, retains all of his divine attributes, including omnipresence, meaning he continued to exist in heaven and did not therefore "leave." He did not become a man as in transforming from God to human, but took on humanity as an additional nature while still remaining truly and fully what he was: God.
True or False:
The Bible says that Satan is the ruler of this world and the god of this age
True
"God helps those who help themselves"
nope
A dude dropped an iron axe head in the water and it floated
yep, that happened
(2 Kings 6)
The twins, Mahli and Mushi
Yep
Exodus 6:19
True or False:
The Bible teaches that Jesus had a human soul and a human will.
True
The Bible teaches that Jesus was a true human being that possessed everything essential to being a man (a real human will, human nature, human body, human soul, etc.)
True or False:
The Bible says that a human being is fundamentally a soul that has a body rather than a body that has a soul
The Bible teaches that a human being is an embodied soul, not fundamentally one more than the other but both united together
The love of money is the root of all evil
Nope
(the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil)
A group of boys once made fun of God's prophet for being bald, so he cursed them and fifty of them were mauled by three male bears
nope. It was 42 boys. And 2 bears. And they were "she-bears." (2 Kings 2)
Dodo, Nimrod, and Basemath
(must be all three to be true)
Yep
True or False:
The Bible teaches that Hell is the one place where Jesus will not be present.
False
“If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he also will drink the wine of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
—Revelation 14:10
True or False:
The Bible says that the Father turned his back on the Son in the crucifixion
False
There were two of every animal in Noah's ark
(Except the ones that came in sixes)
Nope. Some came in groups of seven.
Paul preached so long one night that a dude sitting in the window sill fell asleep, fell out the window, died, was resurrected by Paul, and then went back upstairs for Paul to continue preaching
yep, that happened
Cushan-rishathaim-borolim XXIII
nope