Interesting read: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/05/thats-not-in-the-bible/
I've had a few repeated to me over my lifetime. Particularly the spare the rod one when I was a kid.
Sayings attributed to the bible but aren't from the bible
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“Most people who profess a deep love of the Bible have never actually read the book,” says Rabbi Rami Shapiro, who once had to persuade a student in his Bible class at Middle Tennessee State University that the saying “this dog won’t hunt” doesn’t appear in the Book of Proverbs.
“They have memorized parts of texts that they can string together to prove the biblical basis for whatever it is they believe in,” he says, “but they ignore the vast majority of the text."
This is news?
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