Awesome Bible Facts


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1. According to the Bible, God sent 2 bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a bald man.
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2. There are no mentions of salad in the Bible.
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3. Only three angels are mentioned by name in the Bible: Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer
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4. Unicorns were mentioned in the Bible.
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5. When 14-year-old George Stinney was executed in the electric chair he was too short for the chair so he used his Bible as a booster seat.
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6. NASA requested that Buzz Aldrin not talk about the Bible on the moon.
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7. The Bible is both the bestselling and most shoplifted book of all time.
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8. The Harry Potter series contains approximately 38% more words than the King James Bible.
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9. God killed nearly 3 million people according to the Bible – Satan killed 10.
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10. There are 1,260 promises given in the Bible.
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11. The right hand is mentioned positively 100 times in the Bible, while the left hand is mentioned only 25 times, all negatively
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12. Nowhere in the Bible does it say there were three wise men, just three gifts.
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13. The King James Bible has inspired the lyrics of more pop songs than any other book.
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14. In the Bible God kills over 2 million people, Satan kills only 10.
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15. Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was mentioned more in the Quran than in the Bible. She is also the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran.
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16. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Satan rules Hell.
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17. The word "triflin," which means shiftless, lazy, and useless, was first used in the Bible.
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18. There are over 8,000 predictions in the Bible.

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