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What about Jonah? That could've been true!

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What about Jonah? That could've been true!
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RE: What about Jonah? That could've been true!
December 4, 2011 at 4:12 pm
(December 3, 2011 at 9:22 pm)Justtristo Wrote: How can anybody with a little bit of common sense take this story (The Book of Jonah) as anything other than an fairy tale beats me.

Well, from what I've been able to guess, the Book of Jonah was written as a satire; notice the content of the last part of the book: a town of degenerate sinners converts on Jonah's say-so, and afterwards, Jonah eagerly awaits their destruction by God and has a hissy fit when God doesn't do so. The targets are essentially the same kind of people who are bull-headed enough to say that it's possible for a man to survive three days alive in a fish's bowels because the Bible says it's possible.
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