A friend of mine just told me that when she was a kid, she thought that the little drummer boy got “cut” from the Bible because they didn’t like him waking Jesus up when he was a baby 
Anybody else have any Bible misconceptions?
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Hello skymak.
I think the biggest one I can think of is “God will never give you more than you can handle.” Not true. Look at Paul.
“From the Jews five times I received forty [stripes] minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep; [in] journeys often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils of [my own] countrymen, [in] perils of the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; in weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness-- besides the other things, what comes upon me daily: my deep concern for all the churches.“ 2 Corinthians 11:24-28
God will most certainly give you more than you can handle on your own, so He can show His love, power, and glory. He never left Paul. He will not leave you either.
Peter
A common misconception is that everything in the bible applies to us. What is said needs to be understood in terms of what is being said to whom and why.For example, Jesus spoke to the nation of Israel offering them the earthly kingdom. Much of what he said has universal application. However, some of it was within a Jewish context such as keeping the law or what might be expected in the future earthly kingdom. People can get in trouble by trying to make everything apply to us today.
That’s actually pretty funny. 
One Bible misconception I had as a kid is something I’ve since realized is rather profound. After Jesus dies on the cross the Roman centurion watching says, “Surely this man was the Son of God!” (Matt. 27:54). In my child’s mind I always felt anguish upon reading that like, “If you had only realized this a minute before, maybe Jesus could’ve been saved and wouldn’t have had to die!” The irony of the centurion acknowledging this moments after Jesus died always seemed so futile to me, but as I’ve gotten older and grown in my faith, I realize that that’s the point: each of our sinful hearts reject Christ and so he had to die for our sins. There was no other way. There was only through the pain and suffering and separation from God that our redemption could happen.
So, when I think back on my thoughts and feelings about this passage as a kid, I realize I was right in a sense to feel the anguish, but now I see the beauty in the sacrifice.