Bible Quiz—it's fun and challenging

[xpastor]

My point is that emotions are not in any of our musscles they're in the brain - yet in our culture we count them as coming from the heart, and that in essence is the same as with cultures in Biblical times which had the heart as generating thoughts. Just like the heart cannot create emotions, nor can it think.

In our culture we recognize the idea of emotions coming from the heart as a metaphor or if you will, a linguistic fossil from an earlier era of language. However, everyone knows that it is really the brain which is the physical seat of all our feelings.

I don't see this bit of incorrect science as a major flaw in the Bible, but it is true that the ancient Israelites seemed to have little interest in investigating or analyzing the natural world as compared to the Greeks. This is seen, for instance, in their ridiculous distinction between clean and unclean animals. Those which fell into the category of their traditional herd animals (cow, sheep, goat) eating grass and having a cloven hoof were considered clean. Those which differed on one point were considered unclean, rabbits and camels as they ate grass but lacked the cloven hoof and pigs as they had the cloven hoof but did not eat grass.

I will repeat, there is one other question in which the very verse which the quiz cites to "prove" its answer in fact shows that it is about another subject entirely.