More Questions for Christians

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Who said he was alive those three days, it is a Christ example of being in the grave for three days.

Since he was supposed to be praying inside the whale, I'd say the Bible does.

And the Lord appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the stomach of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the stomach of the fish, 2 and he said, . .. .


“I called out of my distress to the Lord,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the [b]depth of Sheol;
You heard my voice. . . . But I will sacrifice to You
With the voice of thanksgiving.
That which I have vowed I will pay.
Salvation is from the Lord.”

10 Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.

Jonah 1-2 (mostly 2)

You've actually done something most here want, looked up the story, thank you.
If you will notice verse 17 of chapter 1 says, Jonah was in the whales belly ie. stomach for three days and nights and nothing is recorded that he prayed during that span of time. Verse 1 of chapter 2 starts with the word "Then," meaning only after Jonah had been in the belly of the whale three days and nights did he start to pray.
My conclusion to this is that Jonah would have been praying like mad if he were alive the whole time and, we have what I see as conformation from Jonah's pray he was dead. Jonah said he was calling out from Sheol ie. the grave and we know he was rescued from the grave because he said the LORD is salvation. These things are constants in scripture.
Again thanks for looking up the verses.

GC