the Mandela effect

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I recently ran into someone who was very perplexed because he read in
his Bible Isaiah the following verse:

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them.
Isaiah 11:6

However, he was absolutely sure he had read it many times before and
firmly believed all his life that it said "a lion shall lay down with
the lamb!" He further more was sure that someone had gone back in time
and changed the Bible!

I said to him, "Well, yeah, I just read Isaiah and the verse is there!"
He said read it again and as I read the text above, I was amazed to find
that indeed, it does not say a lion would lay down with the lamb! In
fact, I searched and found that the phrase "the lion shall lay down with
the lamb" does not occur anywhere in the Bible!

He left mumbling something about the Mandela effect. I said I am going
to have to look into this!

Researching the Mandela effect showed it to be where a large part of the
population believes as fact something which is not true. It gets it name
from the fact that many people believe that Nelson Mandela died in
prison in South Africa in the 1980s. Reality is that he was eventually
released from prison, became president of South Africa, and died in 2013
in that famous recent funeral where the former POTUS incurred the wrath
of his wife when he was flirting with another female head of state.
(Denmark?)

So how did a very large part of Christianity come to believe that that
text is in the bible and what are the implications of it?

Certainly the world of Christian art has be seeing lamb and lion
paintings for a very long time, but what was the inspiration for the
paintings?

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lion+shall+lay+down+with+the+lamb

Some writers on line writing about this mistaken belief wrote:

My father was a minister, I went to a private Christian School during my
elementary years, I attended church regularly for the first 18 years of
my life (Sunday morning, Sunday nights, Wednesday nights). I've read the
Bible completely, all the way through, at least three times, though the
last time was about 3-4 years ago. It DID used to say LION, not wolf. We
even had artwork on the walls that showed the lion laying down with the
lamb; it was never a wolf. Wonder if my dad still has that picture up?
I'll have to ask him if it's a wolf now, lol.

I always heard the lion shall lie with the lamb. I did recently hear
"wolf and lamb" and thought it was an error. I would think in the Middle
East there would be more lions than wolves, at least thousands of years
ago.

Snopes reports how some believe it is a result of sliding between
parallel universes:

Parallel Universes and Virtual Realities One theory based on principles
of quantum mechanics holds that people who experience the Mandela Effect
may have "slid" between parallel realities (à la the science fiction TV
series Sliders). Others have written about Time Travel being an explanation for this.

Other Christian writers about this verse: The “lion and the lamb shall
lay down together” is often cited a prophecy speaking of a literal
utopia on earth to come – a Golden Age – referred to as ‘The
Millennium’. It is argued that since so many of the prophecies regarding
The Christ’s first appearing were fulfilled literally, surely such
prophecies of a Golden Age will also be fulfilled literally. This
yet-to-come Golden Age (“The Millennium”) is spoken of as “Paradise
Restored” – an age of Paradise on earth where there will be no death,
sorrow, pain or sickness. The prophets described this era with the
expression, “the lion and the lamb shall lay down together…” But there
is a slight, ever so slight, problem with this: the expression, the lion
and lamb shall lay down together does not occur in the Bible! The
closest we can get to it Isaiah 11:6.

If you want to do your own test of how suseptable to the Mandela effect:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/christopherhudspeth/can-you-pass-this-mandela-effect-memory-test?utm_term=.arX89nN40#.tv87gzo8r

This is a fascinating story of a famous lion in Kenya who liked to adopt
antelope calves:
http://www.naturescornermagazine.com/lion_lamb.html

Revelation 5:5-6 - 5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not:
behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath
prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. 6 And
I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts,
and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God
sent forth into all the earth.

The above verses in Revelation come about as close to the lion and the
lamb laying down together as I could find. When Jesus was lying asleep
in the back of the boat on the Sea of Galilee during the storm, He being
the the Lamb of God and the Lion of Judah was the lamb and the lion
laying down together!

What is also important here is, how many other things do people believe
are in the Bible that are not there? And of course, what are the
implications for these false beliefs? Mistaking the lion for the wolf is
not huge, but other beliefs could be catastrophic for one's eternal
life.