The Fish that Swallowed Jonah? Is this true? Any sensible explanation?
2007-11-18 15:17:37 · 18 answers · asked by sharingan2007 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus said it was real.
"For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." (Matthew 12:40)
2007-11-18 15:26:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good article on the subject
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/45
The Bible does not state what the 'fish" was...we can only speculate that it was a miraculous event as the story says that God "prepared' a fish....it could have been a whale as the OT writers did not distinguish between a cold-blooded fish or a warm-blooded whale like we do today....any sea creature would have been called a fish. There are stories of whalers being swallowed by whales and being retrieved a couple of days later, still alive. Who knows if they are true or not. God has shown in other stories, like the three men in the fiery furnace, that He is able to sustain His followers in very dire or impossible circumstances. We only have God's Word to say that it happened and God does not lie.
2007-11-18 15:42:26 · answer #2 · answered by paul h 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jonah 1:17 = "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."
Jonah 2:1 = "Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly..."
Matt.12:40 = "For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."
I believe it is the truth because the Word of God/Bible is the truth (John 17:17 "Thy word is truth.") Also why I know it's the truth is because God does not lie(Heb.6:18). Another is because Jesus was in the grave for three days and three nights which fulfilled prophecy.
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2007-11-18 17:32:07 · answer #3 · answered by KNOWBIBLE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the King James text textile, it easily says that the Lord "arranged" an remarkable fish. I take it, consequently, that it replaced into not a typical member of any species in life on the time. it would ok have had to be made better. (except he used a megamouth shark, i think.) It easily had to be changed to cut back its abdomen acid concentration. somebody the two had to constantly be telling the fish to flow up and gulp air, or the Lord had to alter it to accomplish such an action by utilising selection. Um, human beings? Fish at the instant are not whales, and whales at the instant are not fish.
2016-10-01 03:40:03 · answer #4 · answered by mancinelli 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is your explanation is wasn't a fish it was a bird and she didn't swallow Jonah just some of his fluids.
2007-11-18 16:31:59 · answer #5 · answered by jetthrustpy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about as true as the story of Joshua stopping the sun, or Moses changing his rod into a snake that ate Pharoah's snakes, or Jesus rising into the sky and becoming a god, or Adam and Eve and their talking snake.
The Bible is full of that stuff.
2007-11-18 15:22:42 · answer #6 · answered by Saint Nearly 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Matt.12:40, 41; Jesus said it was a whale and if Jesus believed it then he knows and that is good enough for me. Johan did what he was told and saved a multitude.
2007-11-18 15:22:32 · answer #7 · answered by jeni 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Does it really matter? There are far more important issues in the story than the fish.
2007-11-18 15:21:49 · answer #8 · answered by rico3151 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was a whale and didn't Pinocchio and his father get swallowed by one too?
2007-11-18 15:27:46 · answer #9 · answered by Bellisima 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A whale
yes it is true
he said he was in Hell
the Whale vomited him up
that is how he got out
God had the Whale in full control
2007-11-18 15:30:48 · answer #10 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋