20 Dec 04
I'll give a big cheer to anyone who can answer these questions correctly. ( Hint: they are not as easy as they sound.) 1) How many wise men visited baby Jesus? 2) Which direction did the wise men follow the star? 3) Who cut off Samson's hair? 4) What fruit did Eve give Adam in the Garden of Eden?
20 Dec 04
Originally posted by Peter XWell, I will be the sucker and throw out the most well known answers I've heard. I know little about the Bible though.
I'll give a big cheer to anyone who can answer these questions correctly. ( Hint: they are not as easy as they sound.) 1) How many wise men visited baby Jesus? 2) Which direction did the wise men follow the star? 3) Who cut off Samson's hair? 4) What fruit did Eve give Adam in the Garden of Eden?
1) Three
2) Don't know
3) Delilah
4) Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
20 Dec 04
Originally posted by Peter X1) The Bible just says 'magi', it doesn't say how many.
I'll give a big cheer to anyone who can answer these questions correctly. ( Hint: they are not as easy as they sound.) 1) How many wise men visited baby Jesus? 2) Which direction did the wise men follow the star? 3) Who cut off Samson's hair? 4) What fruit did Eve give Adam in the Garden of Eden?
2) Westwards, presumably.
3) <shrugs>
4) I don't know how this one ended up as 'apple' - one possibility (in English at least) is that it's an archaism from when 'apple' was the general word for fruit. Another is that it's a Latin pun ('apple' and 'bad' are both written 'malus' in Latin). I'm just guessing here.
20 Dec 04
Originally posted by Acolytethe OT was written in hebrew...
4) I don't know how this one ended up as 'apple' - one possibility (in English at least) is that it's an archaism from when 'apple' was the general word for fruit. Another is that it's a Latin pun ('apple' and 'bad' are both written 'malus' in Latin). I'm just guessing here.