Give me a hand here!
2007-03-10 16:35:49 · 22 answers · asked by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sure he did. I remember one day I was out swimming and this huge Blue Whale surfaced below me and... oh, wait... that wasn't me.
Can I change my answer, please?
2007-03-10 16:55:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anthony Stark 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Heh hee, when God asks you to do something DO IT, or you might end up in whale's stomach..and you end up going where God wants you to be anyway. : )
There is a good evidence that the events recorded in the book of Jonah are literal historical events that took place in the life of the prophet Jonah.
The tendecy to deny the historicity of Jonah stems from an antisupernatural bias. If miracles are possible, there is no real reason to deny tht Jonah is historical.
Jonah and his prophetic ministry is mentioned in the historical book of 2 Kings ( 14:25 ). If supernatural prediction is mentioned in a historical book, why should the historical nature of his prophetical book be rejected?
The most devastating argument against the denial of the historical accuracy of Jonah is found in Matthew 12:40. In this passage Jesus predicts His own burial and resurrection, and provides the doubting scribes and Pharisees the sign that they demanded. The sign is the experience of Jonah. Jesus says: " For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. " If the tale of Jonah's ecperience in the belly of the great fish was only a fiction, then this provied no prophetic support for Jesus' claim.The point of making a reference to Jonah is that if they did not believe the story of Jonah being in the belly of fish, then they did not believe the death, burial , and resurrection of Jesus. As far as Jesus was concerned, the historical fact of His own death, burial, and resurection was on the same historical ground as Jonah in the belly of fish. To reject one was to cast doubt on the other ( cf John 3:12 ). Likewise, if they believed one, they should believe the other.
Jesus went to mention the significant historical detail. His own death, burial, and resurrection was the supreme sign that verified His claims. When Jonah preached to the unbelieving Gentiles, they repented. But, here was Jesus in the presence of His own people, the very people of God, and yet they refused to believe. Therefore, the men of Nineveh would stand up in judgment aginst them, " because they ( the men of Nineveh ) repented at the preachng of Jonah" ( Matt 12:41 ). If the events of the Book of Jonah were merely parable or fiction, and not literal history, then the men of Nineveh did ot really repent, and any judgment upon the unrepentant Pharisees would be unjust and unfair. Because of the testimony of Jesus, we can be sure that Jonah records literal history.
Finally, there is archaelogical confirmation of a prophet named Jonah whose grave is found in nothern Israel. In addition, some ancient coins have been unearthed with an inscription of a man coming out of a fish's mouth.
So I hope I gave you a hand..or at least two cents. : )
2007-03-11 01:05:46 · answer #2 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey, Papa Gepetto did it, too. Let's not give Jonah all the credit!
Maybe whales just have lots of fresh air coming into their stomachs and the acids are very mild. Like vinegar? And if they filter the salt out of the water they drink there'd be plenty of water. And that plankton could be nourishing.
In fairy tales anything can happen.
2007-03-11 00:43:41 · answer #3 · answered by ophelliaz 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. While it is theoretically possible to stay alive for that length of time in a creature whose stomach is large enough, a whale's throat is only about the size of a cantaloupe, so, there's no way a human could get in one's stomach. Its possible that the writers of this story mistook an unusually large fish for a whale, if in fact it is true.
2007-03-11 00:40:41 · answer #4 · answered by Isis-sama 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
First, he hung IN :).
Then - you have a Jesus that goes resurrecting dead people and transforming things into other things and restoring sight to blind people and getting killed yet resurrected and walking the earth again and raising to Heaven in the end, so you got all this, and you bother about poor Jonah?...
2007-03-11 06:00:15 · answer #5 · answered by Trillian, Moon Daisy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or, if you want to go along with the "UFOs in the Bible" hypothesis occasionally shown on the History Channel, maybe it was an alien's submarine.
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Sorry, that just doesn't sound any more believable than being in a whale.
2007-03-11 00:43:02 · answer #6 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
accually it is physicly possible to stay alive in certain wales stomachs for a number of days due to the way the wales feed and the way they push all of the water out after taking in the meal. its been proven scientificly that this is possible. you couldnt live long but you could live inside one for a few days.
2007-03-11 00:47:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-03-11 00:38:30 · answer #8 · answered by Pantherempress 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jonah
Matt 12
Luke 11
yes.
Would a Jonah experience help you, to decide, to follow God?
2007-03-11 00:44:15 · answer #9 · answered by robert p 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's more likely that the "Ketei Megalo" was the name of another ship.
2007-03-11 00:43:48 · answer #10 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But... but... if I give you a hand, I can't play my piano!
(OK, OK... so there's certain other things I wouldn't be able to do as well... stop being so omniscient Jesus! It's embarrassing!)
2007-03-11 00:38:51 · answer #11 · answered by Snark 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋