Test Your BIBLE IQ： Michael Knowles vs. Protestant
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Summary
On this episode of Mythology Thursday, we have a special guest on the show, Dr. Michael Knowles. He's a biblical scholar, author, and expert on the Shroud of Turin. He joins us to talk about it, Bible trivia, and much, much more.
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So, first of all, everyone knows who Jeremiah is.
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One of the very best Mike Lanns we have ever done,
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seen by zillions of people on the Shroud of Turin.
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You're a scholar and you're a gentleman, brother.
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We're on a tour with the Shroud all around the world.
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Every place I go, people walk up to me that watch Michael Knowles.
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as a result of our interview on the Shroud of Turin.
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So, how can we define success better than that?
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Now, you're also, you're setting me up with all these nice high expectations
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just to knock me down when you crushed me at Bible Trivia.
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The command, fear not, among other synonymous phrases such as do not be afraid
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are widely known as the most repeated command in the Bible.
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How many times is it repeated closest without going over?
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Because I'm, when it's a lady, we say ladies first.
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So, this is, this is angels talking about, this is our Lord.
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I'm not going to look when it, people, people actually were guessing it wrong.
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I always, it's very offensive when I guess it and everyone in the chat knows the answer.
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He dies on Mount Nebo overlooking the promised land.
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So, I want the opportunity to beat you, even though you're probably right.
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It's probably like literally 140 or, or slightly higher.
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So, I'm like, but I want the opportunity to beat you so much.
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I'm going to say 70, such that if it's 139, I win.
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The shortest verse in the Bible consists of two words.
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And it's found in, gosh, I don't know what gospel it's found in.
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This is not, not just to be an excuse, but, you know, because Catholics tend to read the
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Bible liturgically, you know, in like a one to three year cycle.
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Oh, I don't, like, uh, uh, is it in, I don't know, Luke?
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Well, we need to, we need to push back on Professor Jacob a little bit.
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Are we talking in the English Bible or the Greek New Testament?
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Because it's actually, there's actually a shorter verse in the Greek New Testament.
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I'm going to go, I can answer his question, but rejoice always in the Greek, there's 138,000
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And so rejoice always in Philippians is technically the shortest verse in the Greek New Testament,
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which the New Testament books that we share were written in.
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But in the English translation, Jesus wept, I'm going with Matthew's gospel on that one.
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And I was about to say all that stuff about the Philippians and everything.
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Now I almost want the, I want the equipment to break now so that I can say, well, we tied,
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What is the only book in the Bible that does not specifically mention God by name?
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And I actually, I don't even mean this just to poke and prod.
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Are we talking about the Protestant Bible with 66 books or are we talking about 73 books?
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Jacob is on a rendezvous with Destiny and so it's a, but it's just the real Bible, man.
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This is the one book that is also not included in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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If that, in the Dead Sea Scrolls that we have, that we've recovered from Qumran, this is
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So that's a huge hint for you because it doesn't mention the divine name.
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If I were educated, Jeremiah, that would be a huge hint.
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If I were like knowledgeable and literate, that would be helpful to me.
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I appreciate you're presuming that about me incorrectly.
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Um, I don't, uh, is it, so it's not a Deutero-canonical.
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It's not, it's, it's, I don't, I'm going to say like Ecclesiastes.
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It's Old Testament and it's going to be the book of Esther, which never mentions the name
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Who was the only non-Jew referenced as anointed one in the Hebrew Bible?
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I can't believe you would mislead me like that, Jeremiah.
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This might be some, some sort of Semitic subversion by Professor Jacob.
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I think, I think, I think Professor Jacob needs help on this one.
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Well, as long as you didn't get it right and I got it wrong, I don't even, I don't even
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When Joseph was in prison in Egypt, he was with two other prisoners whose dreams he interpreted.
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What were the occupations of the two prisoners?
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He was, he was, he was giving the, trimming the sideburns of the Pharaoh.
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I'm going to go because I try to read the picture Bible to my boys every night.
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So they would be ashamed of me if I got this wrong.
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I'm going to go the two occupations when Dan, when Joseph is in prison would be the baker
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Do you know actually how I first encountered that?
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Do you know the reason this is kind of embarrassing, I'm telling on myself, because when I was a
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kid, I was in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
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Even before, I think that was even before I read the book of Genesis in full for the first
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You know what gives me hope even when our culture seems to be spiraling at times?
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Faith-filled families raising kids who can actually turn things around.
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That cannot happen if faithful Catholics are not getting married and having babies.
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I keep hearing from young people about how difficult it is to find other serious Catholics
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You know, even sometimes they show up to the traditional Latin mass where the odds are
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Well, look, there's no magical solution out there, but I have become acquainted with the
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They're focused on sacramental marriage, not hookups, not the endless swiping, not the
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commoditization of human beings, actual marriage.
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They're the largest and most trusted Catholic dating app out there, and they built real tools
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Their profiles go deep into what actually matters, your faith, where you stand,
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Plus, they offer live events for premium members so you can connect in person, not just through
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You don't need to be a prisoner to the bad apps.
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You can go and use this technology to your advantage.
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If you are looking, or if you tried before and gave up, do not.
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Download the app or head to catholicmatch.com and find your forever.
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I'm going to say Miriam, because that's what Jeremiah said.
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It's, like, the easiest question that I could possibly answer.
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Remember, who were the two men that held up his arms?
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And as long as Moses' arms were being held up, they had victory in battle.
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Such and such and such and such held up his arms in battle.
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Like, is it one of the most famous people in the Bible?
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You want me to tell you the name of the other guy?
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I should have had more confidence in one of the most famous figures in the Bible.
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No woman was named Aaron in the Hebrew, I can assure you.
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What city's walls fell after the Israelites marched around it for seven days?
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To quote some of my wonderful black Protestant brothers singing hymns.
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Am I going to get canceled for my African American vernacular?
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In Revelation, what color is the horse representing death?
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But I wanted you to answer for me because you know me.
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Actually, White Horse was like the first one with the crown.
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So I don't know if either one of y'all got that.
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Which prophet was taken captive to Babylon as a young man and interpreted dreams for the
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You can go to the museum in Berlin, Germany, the Pergamum Museum, and you can walk through
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the beautiful purple Ishtar Gate that this prophet would have walked through when he was
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One of my favorite verses in all the Old Testament in Daniel 1, verse 8, that Daniel purposed in
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his heart to serve the Lord as he walked through those horrible gates of Babylon.
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I'm going up against a guy who knows, like, old languages.
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It's weird that you can't name a kid Ham anymore.
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Where was the wedding that Jesus turned water into wine?
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Unfortunately, Jeremiah does know all the answers, but I...
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Like, I wish I could fake him out a little bit, you know?
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I actually got two easy ones because of the Aaron one.
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How many total commandments are there in the Torah?
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This is in the Jewish version, not the, like, you know, like, fulfilled version.
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Late Second Temple Judaism, Jesus is approached by the nomikos, the grammatus in Greek, and they
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They were trying to trap Jesus, and he responds with the great commandment, Matthew 22, 37.
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He says, love God with your heart, soul, and mind.
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Because it's closest to that going over, I want to say there's, like, 11.
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Because then, you know, then if it's 612, then I win.
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But he said it so confidently, I want to say he's right.
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Wow, we actually both got it wrong, though I got it more right.
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She was 6, and then he waited until she was 9 to sleep with her.
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You're going to give me, like, fatwa with this.
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I'm almost glad we both don't know the answer to that.
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Because then you've got to pick Shiite or Sunni or Wahhab.
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Jeremiah, I know we have this excellent book right here that everyone should order.
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I mean, one can certainly speak to the content, but also just a lovely edition of the Bible
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Tell us a little bit about it before I let you go.
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And that's the one I actually personalized to you.
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I took four years of my life to study the word shalom.
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There's 651 occurrences of the word peace in the Bible.
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I know that because I counted every single one.
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And I wrote 126,000 words tracing every single place where shalom, peace shows up.
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It's fascinating where in the Bible it shows up.
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It's fascinating that it's God's will for every follower of Jesus to walk in his peace.
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It's not some kind of spiritual gift that only dealt to force Christians like you have,
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But every one of us need to have the peace of God.
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And so there's daily devotionals, all the book introductions, all the notes are how to
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So it's so true, too, because even, look, I catch myself with this, too.
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But we're in a culture that is given to anxiety.
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And we're always, we're on stimulants all the time.
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And our phones are probably the biggest stimulant of all.
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And so, you know, it's always important to connect oneself to the peace of God.
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Anyway, it's available now out from Thomas Nelson, great publisher.
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You're always working on like a hundred different things.
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Well, thanks to our conversation that we had a few months ago on the top discoveries about
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It's the top 10 discoveries that bring us face to face with Jesus.
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It's already making global headlines just because so many people are unaware that unlike all
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these other fake religions, Christianity puts itself to a historical evidential test.
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And what's cool about knowing about these discoveries is they bring us face to face with Jesus.
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And also, I'm acquiring, by the way, from Zurich right now, a gold Tiberius coin.
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Do you remember, Michael, when Jesus said, give unto Caesar that which is Caesar, give God
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So next time I come back, I'll bring more artifacts.