Or, wouldn't he have been killed from lack of oxygen in the whales stomach? Or, wouldn't he have been digested by the acids in the whale stomach like everything else? Is this just a a mythological fable? If so, for what reason?
2006-12-19 11:39:52 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yep, its a pure myth just like Shiva cutting the head off an elephant and putting it on his son's head. When its YOUR religion you believe the story to be absolutely true, when its someone elses, we laugh at the improbablity of it.
Jews and Christians think this is fact just as Hindus think it is a fact you can cut a boy's head off and put an elephant head in its place. Impossible but believed. Ahhh the power of "GOD"! Funny isn't it?
2006-12-19 11:46:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a huge whale would swallow me up, there is enough air in the belly to survive. A whale surfaces and takes on oxygen. So no I would not suffocate and be effected by the stomach acids. Any human could survive for a while in the belly of a huge whale., but we would have to find a way to be spit up, within a long period of time. If I had no way of getting spit up, then I could not survive for many days in the belly. I would eventually be digested. Jonah was lucky, The whale threw him up and out. I firmly believe this is a true story.
2006-12-19 11:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jonah and the whale is organic genuine fact, no longer a delusion, no longer fiction. This develop into no longer in effortless words experienced by technique of Jonah himself, yet develop into witnessed by technique of the deliver crew, who informed of the adventure at sea. Then they pronounced Jonah alive on overseas soil later witnessing about his adventure. Above and previous that, God Almighty isn't restricted. God Almighty can do some thing. he's ALMIGHTY GOD. yet, that isn't any more beneficial impossibly feasible than at the same time as on 9/11 there have been survivors got here upon below the tonnage of both fallen towers. yet the international pronounced the towers fall; the international pronounced survivors pulled from under massive tonnage. i ask your self, did we no longer have the technologies obtainable in the present day to observe it and observe it firsthand, may we've believed written witnessed debts or may there be dissenters who disbelieved? Dissention or no longer, conception or disbelief, doubt or faith does no longer substitute the fact.
2016-11-27 21:02:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point of the story was God told Jonah to go to Ninevah and yell at the people for disobeying god. And Jonah didn't wanna so he snuck out of town on a boat. When the sea got rough, Jonah went overboard and landed in a whale for 3 days. The whale puked Jonah out and THEN Jonah went to Ninevah and put the smackdown on the peeps and they listened to Jonah and shaped up for god.
So when god tells ya to put the smackdown on someone, listen or a whale will eat you. Perfectly moral moral :)
BTW, I'm an atheist and I think it's a stupid story too.
2006-12-19 11:42:57 · answer #4 · answered by Black Parade Billie 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Even if the entire Bible were just one long metaphoric fairy tale direct from God's magnificent imagination -- the moral of the message would be the same.
Like when life's circumstances appear to be a beast that is swallowing and digesting you whole -- just remember there is someone BIGGER and more powerful than you who is in control of the situation and He can not only preserve you while you're in the belly of the beast but bring you out in due time; without brain damage and lasting scars from a lack of oxygen and digestive acids.
That is, if He so desires.
2006-12-19 12:00:54 · answer #5 · answered by LadyB!™ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The method God used to preserve Jonah while he transported him to Ninevah is unimportant.
Jonah either survived inside the fish for three days, until he was disgorged onto the shore near NInevah, or he got chewed up, died, was partially digested, and then was reconstituted and resurrected after he was disgorged onto the shore near Ninevah.
Either way, the Ninevites heeded Jonah's words and repented, delaying their ultimate destruction.
Jesus Christ used the sign of Jonah as the only definitive sign of his own death, the three days he would spend in the tomb, and his subsequent resurrection.
Jesus' human soul and divine spirit aparently did some travelling while his body lay in the tomb, as well.
There are a number of other prophetic correlations contaned in the Book of Jonah.
2006-12-19 13:22:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Believe it or not, that kind of thing supposedly happened to a whaler in the early 1900's. They cut the guy out and he was white. Be a good thing for mythbusters. If you read the story then you know the whale was prepared.
2006-12-19 11:43:32 · answer #7 · answered by mad_mav70 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've never seen the cartoons? The dude gets eaten by the whale, and he lights a match...there's fish in the stomach and everything...then the whale gets tired of the dude singing so he gets rid of the dude via his hole in his head.
Of course it's false.
2006-12-19 11:44:29 · answer #8 · answered by OwNaGeR 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
where is the line drawn -
Jonah in a whale 3 days?
Moses parting a sea?
Jesus walking on water?
Noah builing an ark?
You either believe all or nothing. Anywhere in between is making up your own religion, and is a hypocrite.
was I really that blunt?
2006-12-19 11:43:35 · answer #9 · answered by Slave to JC 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The sign of Jonah was the prophesy of Jesus who was resurrected on the third day. The God who created us is not limited by the laws of nature or of this world if he were we would not exist. We too may well be a fable if miracles can not happen.
2006-12-19 11:44:18 · answer #10 · answered by djmantx 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋