Question: Jonah’s underwater stomach vacation! Can anyone identify some of the problems with this story?

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Answer #1:

It's all made up, but you knew that.

Answer #2:

You listened the three main ones that came to my head. The acid in a whales stomach would've rotted poor Jonah in an hour or two.

Answer #3:

1) Jonah’s underwater stomach vacation! Can anyone identify some of the problems with this story?'

Yes. The first problem is "stomach". The Bible does not use that term.


2) Jonah, without scuba gear and hence without oxygen, survived inside of a fish’s stomach underwater for three days.

I disagree. He survived in the animal - but The Bible does not tell us that he survived in the stomach. Couldn't he have survived in a lung?


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Answer #4:

If God can make a fish, can't he make it the way he wants? All of the rest of your post is irrelevant, until you answer that.

Answer #5:

Okay, sure. So let's say it never happened.

There's a story by Dr. Seuss about the Yuks and the Zuks to illustrate why war is dumb, called the Butter Battle Book. Basically it parallels the Cold War. Two groups of people have an arms race over whether to butter your bread on the top side or or on the bottom side. Obviously, it never happened. But the lessons learned from it are still true.

The main theme in Jonah is about why prejudice is dumb...it actually has very little to do with the fish. The other big theme is obedience to God. But even so...why is a story that didn't necessarily happen a bad story? Can't you learn from it? The book of Jonah is a wonderful little book, and an excellent sample of ancient Jewish literature.





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