In Romans 3:15 it says "[sinners'] feet are quick to shed blood". I assumed that this meant that if I had been sinful lately and I cut myself, I would bleed more than if I had a clean soul. That was a long time ago, and I'm 26 years old now, but I've never really got rid of the superstition. When I got a sunburn in Florida five years ago my instinctive reaction was that it was divine punishment since I'm usually pretty resistant to sunburn.
A childhood belief about church
others believed things like this
- I had the weird superstition that if I let all the bathwater run out it'd suck my soul down with it too.— Dan
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- That by drinking a daily dose of buttermilk one would clean the blood thereby avoiding ACNE— Richard in Durham
- my older brother told me that if i didnt clean every bit of dirt out of the prints on my feet, i'd die— chel
- I used to believe that when you are 90 years old, you are also 90 feet tall.Anon
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison