(March 18, 2019 at 11:44 am)robvalue Wrote: Hi guys, I’ve come across something deeply strange and I’d like to gather some opinions to see what is going on. Please answer the following questions from memory, without/before looking anything up. I’ll explain what is going on after gathering some answers. It’s not any kind of trick question, it’s just information which will help me try to understand something.
(If you’re familiar with this and you do look it up afterwards, you may well become aware of what I’m talking about. But let’s see.)
1) In the Bible, what animal is said to lie with the lamb?
2) Do you remember reading this passage directly from a bible, or did you hear about it second hand?
Many thanks! I won’t give my answer to 1 just yet as I don’t want to influence the outcome. But I’ve not spent much time reading the Bible directly so my answer to 2 will be second hand.
PS:
If you guys have any Christian friends, especially ones that have read the Bible a lot, I’d be interested if you could report back their answers to these questions.
(To be clear, I’m interested in what people remember, not what the Bible actually says.)
Although Isaiah 35:9 casts a lion metaphorically as forbidden in the future paradise ("No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there"); in 11:6,7, Isaiah references such formerly ravenous beasts as become peaceable: "The lion will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox."[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lamb_and_lion
the lion laying down with the lamb is a a term that has been adopted by the latter day saints. they have popularized this saing over what the bible has to say. which is consistent with how most of their religious teachings work.. has a familiar biblical ring but changed just enough to be their own thing and not of the God of the bible.
