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Dónde Están
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...3 days, how could he breathe? That whole story always sounded a little "fishy" to me.
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If Jonah was swallowed by a big fish, or a whale, and was inside the creature for...
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luke22_31
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What can we learn from Jonah’s experience? A great deal! The record magnifies Jehovah’s awesome power, showing, for example, how he can cause a great storm to come up to serve his purpose and then have it subside according to his will.Keeping Jonah alive for three days in the belly of a fish. It also magnifies Jehovah’s interest even in a city filled with pagans and the great mercy he can choose to show toward such people. We also see how long-suffering Jehovah was with His prophet Jonah, teaching him much-needed lessons.—Job 37:23; Acts 10:34, 35; Ex. 34:6, 7; Rom. 2:4.
From Jonah’s experience we learn that it is the course of wisdom for us to obey Jehovah’s commands. Also, we are helped to appreciate more fully that it is Jehovah’s will for us to extend mercy to others. This we can do by acquainting them with Jehovah’s purpose regarding the earth and man, having confidence that some will respond even as the ancient Ninevites responded to Jonah’s preaching. And if, at times, insurmountable obstacles seem to stand in the way, we want to exercise faith, as did Jonah in the fish’s belly, that with Jehovah’s help we can overcome these and go on to fulfill our commission.—Jas. 3:17; Matt. 5:7; Luke 6:35, 36; 17:5, 6.
From Jonah’s experience we learn that it is the course of wisdom for us to obey Jehovah’s commands. Also, we are helped to appreciate more fully that it is Jehovah’s will for us to extend mercy to others. This we can do by acquainting them with Jehovah’s purpose regarding the earth and man, having confidence that some will respond even as the ancient Ninevites responded to Jonah’s preaching. And if, at times, insurmountable obstacles seem to stand in the way, we want to exercise faith, as did Jonah in the fish’s belly, that with Jehovah’s help we can overcome these and go on to fulfill our commission.—Jas. 3:17; Matt. 5:7; Luke 6:35, 36; 17:5, 6.
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Sunset
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God recorded it! It's true!
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† Gabriel †
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Even Jesus spoke of Johah's survival as a literal event in Matthew 12:40-41:
"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. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here."
God makes miracles happen, and only God (and Jonah) know how Jonah could have survived.
"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. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here."
God makes miracles happen, and only God (and Jonah) know how Jonah could have survived.
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tim
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Whales are mammals they have to come up for air. It wasnt very pleasant.
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Jesus boy
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hahaha. nice pun. no, im not serious.
w/ God, nothing is impossible.
w/ God, nothing is impossible.
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Bastian
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It might just possibly have been made up.
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Just me
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I guess by the grace of god!
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Blazer 1
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It sounds obvious to me he was able to get the proper amount of air to survive.
How...the Bible doesn't say!
How...the Bible doesn't say!
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tutboyz
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never mind breathing, the acid in the stomach that dissolve the whole fish that get in, would dissolve him faster as he does not have scales
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Michael A
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The Bible contains many different genres of literature. I don't think the Jonah story was ever meant to be concretely literal, but rather a thoughtful and humorous account of how we as God's people can get it entirely wrong, but that God is still merciful regardless.
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god is make believe
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See the thing is, people have been swallowed by whales and later regurgitated and there is no way it's survivable. Whale stomach acid is nasty, nasty stuff.