Marriage is suppose to be between a man and woman
and that Jonas was swallowed by a whale? :)
2006-11-17 12:50:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Go read more, or maybe go ask in the 'religion' category. You might find more assistance there.
2006-11-17 12:55:06 · answer #1 · answered by Shadow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
(cf. Mt. 12:39-42; 16:4; Lk.11:29-32) is about Joanh And the whale.
And Man and Women can only get married is...I am not sure.
Read more of the Bible you'll get all the answears you need
2006-11-17 21:07:26 · answer #2 · answered by h_u_l_a101 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trust me it's in their and my preacher has said it too and he got it out of the Bible
2006-11-17 21:00:38 · answer #3 · answered by football chick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About the whale I dunno, haven't got that far yet...but it says right in Leviticus about the man and woman thing. Read it and you would know
2006-11-17 20:56:43 · answer #4 · answered by asheslovesjoel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gen. 2:18, 21-24
The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him'...and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.
Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man.' For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh...................................
Jon 1:13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring [it] to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them. Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee. So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.
Jon 1:16 Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows. Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Jon 2:1 Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, [and] thou heardest my voice. For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Jonah likened the experience to Hell. A whale is a warm-blooded mammal as we are. The body temperature of a whale must be near 100 degrees and Jonah was in this sweltering heat. I can only imagine the utter darkness he must have endured running from the Lord.
I do know how true this is, and it makes for a good story: In 1891 it was recorded that
A whaling ship, the star of the east, was hunting a whale and one of the boats was capsized and the men were believed drowned in the struggle with the whale. The whale was killed and brought along side the ship. As they were to bring the stomach upon the deck they saw movement. Well they cut open the whales stomach and lo and behold, a missing crewmember from the capsized boat had been swallowed. He was in shock and unconscious from his two and a half-day ordeal. His appearance was a white paper from the acids in the gastric secretions of the whale. The sailor was to take about two weeks to recover from his ordeal. He recounted his story as he hit the water and was to slide down the slippery slope that was the throat of the whale.
He realized that he was in utter darkness and that yet he had air to breathe in this place.
He walked to the side and felt what was like a slippery curtain move away from the touch of his hand. He was terrified as he realized he was inside the whale and had no way out. He said the heat was unbearable and he went into shock from fear and not from any harm.
The crew of the ship and the newspapers of his day reported this account.
Jon 2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay [that] that I have vowed. Salvation [is] of the LORD. And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry [land].
Jonah decides to obey the Lord and perform his prophets vow.
Now in the Halleys Bible Handbook it is stated that in the ruins of Assyria there is a picture of a great fish with a man coming out of his mouth. I do not know if this was actual history of Jonah recorded or a prophecy for Dagon their fish god. Either way the Assyrians must have seen this bleached white man, who looked like an angel, get Spit up on the shore by a great fish. I am sure they saw it as a sign from their fish god Dagon. Jonah by his disobedience set the stage for the Assyrians to hear his message.
Can you imagine Jonah is spit upon the beach by a whale in front of a bunch of fishermen?
What do you think Jonahs words to them were?
Repent!
The fish god Dagon had sent a prophet unto Ninevah they must have thought.
Jon 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered [him] with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. And he caused [it] to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.
The King proclaimed a fast and the people repented of the evil in their hands.
2006-11-17 21:20:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
read the whole thing and you'll find it somewhere...
2006-11-17 20:59:57 · answer #6 · answered by Chocolate Lover♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wrong category.
2006-11-17 20:53:27 · answer #7 · answered by smtwtfs_04 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it's in there..read
2006-11-17 20:51:58 · answer #8 · answered by lize 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dunno. I haven't really read it. I just know some of the stories.
2006-11-17 20:53:00 · answer #9 · answered by ♥just me♥ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋