1Ti 1:3As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men
not to teach false doctrines any longer
1Ti 1:4nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work-which is by faith.
2Ti 4:3For
the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
2Ti 4:4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
The Bible and the Holy Spirit teaches us. Hold firm to what
God said. Trust in Him alone.
Adam and Eve are the father of Cain, because God said so.
Gen 4:1Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man."
There were only eight people on Noah's ark, because God said so.
Gen 7:23And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground,
both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:
and Noah only remained [alive], and they that [were] with him in the ark.
Gen 9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Gen 9:19These [are] the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
1Pe 3:20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built.
In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
2Pe 2:5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people,
but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;