More Questions for Christians

[Godscreated]

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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

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Sorry, no one reading Jonah would conclude he was dead three days. I can't imagine a resurrection in the Bible not highlighted in bold. The grave he was referring to was a watery one from which the fish saved him at god's command.

The story I remember from memory. And though the whale makes good pics, the point of the story is what happens when a prophet runs from god. Old Jonah was on the lam. The fish tale is just extra that lends additional unbelievability. Shoel, is not a straightforward word to translate. It means Hades, but also destruction.

You're write the story is about a prophet trying to go against God's will, yet within that story there's the Messiah story. Sheol also refers to the grave. Jonah was also in the fish for thee days before he started to pray, the word "Then" in verse 1 of chapter 2 shows us this plainly. The fish did keep Jonah from drowning as was God's plan, but Jonah couldn't have lived in the fish for three days, if he had don't you think he would have had more than one prayer, especially before three days in a fishes belly.

GC