Bible Quiz—it's fun and challenging

[Aractus]

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.

What about Question 1 and claiming that Ex 34 is the 10 commandments, and then in their explanation claiming "Don't boil a young goat in the milk of its mother" is a commandment, when it's actually taken out of context for one, and for another no serious scholar - no matter how sceptical - thinks that Ex 34 is the first 10 commandments. This is because of Ex 34:1:

The Lord said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

And Ex 34:27:

And the Lord said to Moses, “Write these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

So within the narrative itself it's clear that this covenant that renews the broken relationship between God and his people is written down by Moses - not by God on the stone tablets that Moses cut.