4 Common Christian Sayings that aren't in the Bible

[rethink88]

We've all heard them and maybe even said them. But these 4 common Christian Sayings aren't actually in the Bible.

What would you add to the list?

 

[faroukfarouk]

We've all heard them and maybe even said them. But these 4 common Christian Sayings aren't actually in the Bible.

What would you add to the list?

"Don't tempt Providence."

 

[lesliedellow]

"God helps those who help themselves" is a notorious one.

 

[rethink88]

"God helps those who help themselves" is a notorious one.

That would be a great one!

 

[Radagast]

"God helps those who help themselves"

Isn't that from 2 Hesitations 4:7?

 

[Paidiske]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Idle hands are the workshop of the devil.

 

[RaphaCam]

I've seen more than once "God was made man so man could be made God" being attributed to the Bible, while it's actually from St. Augustine.

 

[Greg J.]

Be careful to distinguish between (1) whether a certain phrase or sentence is in the Bible or not with (1) whether the concept it represents is in the Bible or not with (3) how some people understand the concept. The article the OP linked to has errors, but what it presents is not necessarily a bad step along the path to knowing God.

What I will add to this thread is any phrase that views God with any negativity at all, when there is no reason for it. Just because God knows everything doesn't mean God is watching you! is a correct thing to say to someone, because the connotations of that phrase may distort its meaning.

 

[NJA]

"The lion shall lie down with the lamb"

 

[mark kennedy]

Lets see,
'cleanliness is next to godliness'

 

[mark kennedy]

"The lion shall lie down with the lamb"

I assume you mean this one:

The wolf 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. (Isa. 11:6)​

 

[Greg J.]

Presumably confused with Revelation 5:5-6 where Jesus is equated with both a lion and lamb. Interestingly, the error results in a Biblically correct concept, unlike most other sayings. (i.e., there will be peace between former predators and prey)

 

[ViaCrucis]

I've seen more than once "God was made man so man could be made God" being attributed to the Bible, while it's actually from St. Augustine.

Athanasius, actually, in his work on the Incarnation of the Word,

"As, then, he who desires to see God Who by nature is invisible and not to be beheld, may yet perceive and know Him through His works, so too let him who does not see Christ with his understanding at least consider Him in His bodily works and test whether they be of man or God. If they be of man, then let him scoff; but if they -be of God, let him not mock at things which are no fit subject for scorn, but rather let him recognise the fact and marvel that things divine have been revealed to us by such humble means, that through death deathlessness has been made known to us, and through the Incarnation of the Word the Mind whence all things proceed has been declared, and its Agent and Ordainer, the Word of God Himself. He, indeed, assumed humanity that we might become God. He manifested Himself by means of a body in order that we might perceive the Mind of the unseen Father. He endured shame from men that we might inherit immortality. He Himself was unhurt by this, for He is impassible and incorruptible ; but by His own impassibility He kept and healed the suffering men on whose account He thus endured. In short, such and so many are the Saviour's achievements that follow from His Incarnation, that to try to number them is like gazing at the open sea and trying to count the waves. One cannot see all the waves with one's eyes, for when one tries to do so those that are following on baffle one's senses. Even so, when one wants to take in all the achievements of Christ in the body, one cannot do so, even by reckoning them up, for the things that transcend one's thought are always more than those one thinks that one has grasped."

-CryptoLutheran

 

[RaphaCam]

Thanks for the reference! St. Augustine must have quoted it, then, it's usually attributed to him.

 

[Mark51]

It seems to me that 1 Corinthians 10:13 supports "Christian saying number 4: 'God won't give me more than I can handle.' "