Name: 10 更多基督教都市傳說 | 聖經版！ (10 More Christian Urban Legends | Bible Edition!)
Uploaded: 2025-08-31T23:27:27.000Z
Duration: 20 min

About a year ago, I made this video here, Five Christian Urban Legends.

大約一年前，我在這裡製作了這段視頻：《五個基督教都市傳說》。

If you haven't seen it, I covered the well to hell, the missing day in space, the weight of the soul, the devil's holiday, and the Cassie Bernal story.

如果你還沒看過，我介紹了地獄之井、太空失蹤日、靈魂之重、魔鬼假期和卡西-貝納爾的故事。

And the purpose there was kind of to show what religion does to our critical thinking, how Christianity can make us believe dumb and untrue and harmful things.

其目的是要說明宗教對我們批判性思維的影響，基督教如何讓我們相信愚蠢、不真實和有害的東西。

What's interesting about those five that I covered is they weren't necessarily biblical based or even trying to be.

有趣的是，我所講的這五個故事並不一定是以聖經為基礎的，甚至不一定試圖以聖經為基礎。

They were just what was going on in the cultural Christian zeitgeist at the time.

它們只是當時基督教文化思潮的產物。

So today I thought it would be fun to look at 10 urban legends or Christian myths or legend or lore that are supposed to be biblically based but are not.

所以，今天我想看看 10 個都市傳說或基督教神話、傳說或傳說，它們應該是基於聖經的，但卻不是。

What they really are is mistranslations, wishful thinking, stretching the text to suit your needs.

它們實際上是誤譯，是一廂情願的想法，是為了迎合自己的需要而延伸文本。

They come from Christian sermons and church teaching and Christian history.

它們來自基督教佈道、教會教義和基督教歷史。

But again, most cases there's not even decent biblical backing.

但同樣，在大多數情況下，甚至都沒有像樣的聖經依據。

Sometimes there's none and sometimes it's to the opposite effect.

And many of these are just as harmful as the first five that we covered.

其中很多都和我們介紹的前五種一樣有害。

Either way, maybe you've heard of these, maybe you've even believed them, but they don't hold up to history or biblical scrutiny or even reality.

無論如何，也許你聽說過這些，甚至相信過它們，但它們經不起歷史或聖經的檢驗，甚至經不起現實的考驗。

The first one here is that Jesus died of a broken heart.

You will usually hear this around the Easter sermons where the pastor is making sure that you know just how bad Jesus's death was so that you know what you owe this free gift of grace.

你通常會在復活節佈道時聽到這種說法，牧師會確保你知道耶穌的死有多慘，這樣你就會知道你欠這份免費的恩典禮物什麼。

And of course, whenever it suits them, they will try to bring in science, usually unsuccessfully like in this case, where they try to literally tell you that Jesus died of a broken heart because of the pain he felt taking on your sin.

當然，只要對他們有利，他們就會試圖引入科學，但通常不會成功，就像在這個案例中，他們試圖從字面上告訴你，耶穌是因心碎而死，因為他承受了你的罪而感到痛苦。

Not the physical pain, the emotional pain.

不是身體上的痛苦，而是情感上的痛苦。

他們就是從這一節經文中得到的。

It is John 19 34, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and at once blood and water came out.

約翰福音》19：34，一個阿兵哥用長矛刺穿了他的側腹，血和水立刻流了出來。

Then they try to tell you that this specific mix only happens one time ever in medical science.

然後他們試圖告訴你，這種特殊的混合在醫學上只發生過一次。

Broken heart syndrome, or what is also called stress-induced cardiomyopathy.

心臟破裂綜合徵，也稱為壓力誘發的心肌病。

Which yes, is a real thing and it is when the heart gets a surge of adrenaline from extreme, sometimes grief, sometimes surprise, sometimes fear, even joy.

是的，這是真實存在的，當心髒因極度的腎上腺素激增時，有時是悲傷，有時是驚訝，有時是恐懼，甚至是喜悅。

It typically only happens in older people who already have heart conditions or weaker associated with older women who lose their spouse and then die of this.

這種情況通常只發生在已經患有心臟病的老年人身上，或者與失去配偶並是以而死亡的老年婦女有關。

It makes up 1-2% of all heart attack deaths.

So even if we knew for sure that Jesus died of this, it would not indicate in any way that it was from the emotional pain of taking on your sin.

是以，即使我們確定耶穌是是以而死，也絲毫不能說明他是因承擔罪孽而遭受情感上的痛苦。

Maybe it's the joy of getting to be done with this earthly experience, but we don't even have to go that far.

也許這是結束塵世經歷的喜悅，但我們甚至不必走那麼遠。

We have no good reason to believe that he died of this particular syndrome.

我們沒有充分的理由相信他是死於這種特殊的綜合症。

The water is pericardial or maybe even pleural fluid.

這些水是心包積液，甚至可能是胸腔積液。

So yeah, could be trauma, could be shock, could be asphyxiation, which makes a lot more sense since that's how usually crucifixion victims died.

所以是的，可能是外傷，可能是休克，也可能是窒息，這就更說得通了，因為被釘在十字架上的人通常都是這麼死的。

But again it says nothing of the medical validity that it was definitely this other syndrome and that it definitely meant it was because of your sin.

但這同樣沒有說明醫學上的有效性，即這肯定是另一種綜合症，也肯定意味著這是因為你的罪。

順便問一下，我們從哪裡得到這個想法的？

An 1847 sermon and book by William Stroud, The Physical Cause of the Death of Christ.

威廉-斯特勞德（William Stroud）1847 年的佈道和著作《基督死亡的物理原因》。

You know, when we are at the height of our medical understandings.

你知道，當我們對醫學的理解達到頂峰的時候。

Well, it romanticizes Jesus' death and contributes to the framing of it being something that is done for you that is then used in a guilt-tripping way for why you owe your allegiance to him instead of the reality of a very brutal state-sanctioned execution after they had to find and capture this man.

它將耶穌的死浪漫化，使人們認為耶穌的死是為你而死，然後用一種內疚的方式來解釋你為什麼要效忠於他，而不是在他們找到並抓住這個人之後，由國家準許的非常殘忍的處決。

And this is something I'll say for all 10 of them.

這是我要為他們 10 個人說的話。

If you have the perfect truth, which is what Christianity claims, why lie?

如果你掌握了完美的真理（這正是基督教所宣稱的），為什麼還要撒謊呢？

Especially in this first story, we're talking about the most amazing claim in all of history that one man who also simultaneously happened to be fully God manifested himself within his created state to die for every single soul that they may have perfect paradise and life everlasting after he resurrects from the dead.

特別是在這第一個故事中，我們談論的是歷史上最令人驚歎的說法：一個人同時也是完全的神，他在自己被創造的狀態中顯明自己，為每一個靈魂而死，使他們在他死而復生後可以擁有完美的天堂和永恆的生命。

You have to keep knitting little pieces on to make the story bigger and better?

你必須繼續編織小片段，讓故事變得更大更精彩？

But we're going to move on to number two now, which is the eye of the needle gate urban legend or myth.

但我們現在要討論第二個問題，即針眼門的都市傳說或神話。

我不知道還有什麼更好的說法。

But the point here is that pastors since the ninth century have been using this excuse, this reframing of this verse.

但問題是，自九世紀以來，牧師們一直在使用這個藉口，對這節經文進行重構。

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God as an excuse for how they are okay having wealth and still planning to go to heaven.

駱駝穿過針眼比有錢人進入天國更容易，這也是他們擁有財富卻仍打算上天堂的藉口。

It is a softening, almost a straight reversal of Jesus's teaching on money.

這是對耶穌關於金錢的教導的軟化，幾乎是直接的顛覆。

So they made up an excuse, literally out of thin air.

於是，他們編造了一個藉口，簡直是憑空捏造。

There is no context about this, but they say that the eye of the needle actually was a particular gate into the holy city.

沒有相關的上下文，但他們說針眼實際上是進入聖城的一個特殊的門。

And so Jesus was using an example of, you know, it's a smaller gate.

是以，耶穌舉了一個例子，你知道，這是一個較小的門。

Camel sometimes had to kind of duck to get through.

駱駝有時不得不躲閃才能通過。

So you should be aware that money has the power to corrupt, but it's not in and of itself a bad thing.

是以，你應該意識到，金錢具有腐蝕的力量，但它本身並不是一件壞事。

And you can still have it and be rich and be blessed and look at Job and look at Solomon as if Jesus's teachings were ever consistent with a lot of the things we see in the Old Testament and bam.

你仍然可以擁有它，變得富有，受到祝福，看看約伯，看看所羅門，就好像耶穌的教誨與我們在《舊約全書》中看到的許多事情是一致的，然後 "砰 "的一聲。

Now you have justification to be Christian leadership millionaire, but that's not what Jesus taught.

現在你有理由成為基督教領袖百萬富翁，但這不是耶穌的教導。

Again, I said it came about in the ninth century, pretty convenient time when Christians have all the power and bishops are owning all the land and the church is one of the richest assets around.

我又說了一遍，它產生於九世紀，那是一個非常方便的時代，基督徒擁有所有權力，主教擁有所有土地，教會是周圍最富有的資產之一。

這裡的危害應該是顯而易見的。

It's an excuse for Christians to be hypocritical.

And it's promoted from a position of power when most of the people using it are asking their congregants to continue to give them more money and why that's okay.

當大多數人在使用它的時候，都是在要求他們的教徒繼續給他們更多的錢，以及為什麼這樣做沒問題時，它就會從權力的位置上被推廣。

And I'd say it's insulting to real Christian belief, but there isn't such a thing.

我想說這是對真正的基督教信仰的侮辱，但並不存在這樣的事情。

They all believe different things for different reasons at different times.

他們在不同的時間出於不同的原因相信不同的東西。

And so very little of it is biblically based.

是以，很少有什麼是以聖經為基礎的。

So let's move on to a lighter example here.

那麼，讓我們換一個輕鬆的例子。

Number three, although it has its implications as well, which is the fruit that started the whole fall of man in the garden was particularly an apple.

第三點，雖然也有它的含義，那就是導致人類在花園中墮落的水果尤其是蘋果。

Most of us know by now that that's not true, but it's got an interesting history.

我們大多數人現在都知道這不是真的，但它有一段有趣的歷史。

What's funny is when it was told to me that it wasn't true, it was just filled with another untrue thing.

有趣的是，當有人告訴我這不是真的時，我的心裡又充滿了另一種不真實的感覺。

Someone in our church was speaking about it one time and they said, you know, it wouldn't have been an apple.

有一次，我們教會的一個人說起這件事，他們說，你知道，那不會是一個蘋果。

Apples didn't grow in that climate as if anybody knows what the climate of the actual garden in Eden would have been.

蘋果並不是在那種氣候下生長的，好像誰也不知道伊甸園的實際氣候是怎樣的。

They try to compare it to what might have grown there more naturally in that time after the fall.

他們試圖將其與秋天過後的那段時間裡可能更自然地生長在那裡的植物進行比較。

And so they assured us it was a pomegranate.

於是他們向我們保證那是石榴。

But in Genesis 3, 6, this is all it says.

但在《創世記》第 3 章第 6 節中，只說了這些。

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, she took of its fruit and ate.

女人看到這棵樹可以食用，就摘下果子吃了。

The Hebrew word for fruit there being peri, not specific to any species.

在希伯來語中，"果實 "的意思是 "peri"，而不是指任何物種。

But when Jerome goes and does the Latin Vulgate, he uses the word malum or malum.

但當傑羅姆去做拉丁文武加大譯本時，他使用了 malum 或 malum 這個詞。

But here's the problem with that word in Latin.

但拉丁語中這個詞的問題就在這裡。

It either means evil or apple, depending where the emphasis is.

它要麼意味著邪惡，要麼意味著蘋果，這取決於重點在哪裡。

Well, that wordplay is just too good to pass up.

好吧，這種文字遊戲實在是太好了，不能錯過。

So let's go with apple and have this little double meaning and then all the European art comes in and now you have an apple in every single painting.

所以，我們就用蘋果吧，這樣就有了雙重含義，然後所有的歐洲藝術作品都會出現蘋果，現在每幅畫中都有蘋果了。

It even goes further than that into Adam's apple, the lump in the neck, and there's all this branding behind that.

它甚至比喉結、脖子上的腫塊更進一步，背後還有所有這些烙印。

And it's kind of a silly thing to just see the evolution of this idea, and it's not particularly harmful in itself, except that it is another example of what can happen with translation issues, how far we can get away from any kind of correct source material, and the Christian's willingness to just believe whatever is presented in front of them as long as it's coming from a Christian source.

這種想法的演變過程有點愚蠢，而且它本身並沒有什麼特別的危害，只是它是另一個例子，說明了翻譯問題可能會發生什麼，我們可以遠離任何一種正確的原始材料，基督徒願意相信他們面前出現的任何東西，只要它來自基督教。

不過，我們接下來要討論的是第四個問題。

This is that Satan is a worship leader, that he was the choir director in heaven before he fell.

這就是撒旦是一個敬拜領袖，他在墮落之前是天堂的唱詩班指揮。

The fan fiction that we have around the character of Satan is really interesting and kind of fun.

圍繞 "撒旦 "這個角色的粉絲小說非常有趣，也很好玩。

The closest you can get are two verses in the Old Testament that neither have to actually do with Satan.

最接近撒旦的只有《舊約全書》中的兩節經文，但這兩節經文實際上都與撒旦無關。

See these videos here if you have not, by the way.

順便說一下，如果您還沒有看過這些視頻，請點擊這裡。

But those verses are in Ezekiel and Isaiah.

但這些經文都在以西結書和以賽亞書中。

So the Ezekiel 28, 12 through 14 says, you were the signet of perfection.

所以《以西結書》第 28 章第 12 至 14 節說，你是完美的印記。

And in Isaiah 14, 12, it says, how you are fallen from heaven, O day star, son of dawn.

以賽亞書》第 14 章第 12 節說："白晝之星，黎明之子啊，你從天上墜落。

But we know Ezekiel is about the king of Tyre, and we know in Isaiah that's speaking about the king of Babylon.

但我們知道《以西結書》說的是推羅王，《以賽亞書》說的是巴比倫王。

But that hasn't stopped Christians from trying to associate that with Satan or the devil, and then stretching that to even further fan fiction where he has his own little backstory about what his job and role was.

但這並沒有阻止基督徒們試圖將其與撒旦或魔鬼聯繫起來，然後進一步延伸到粉絲小說中，讓他有自己的小背景故事，講述他的工作和角色。