Originally posted by -=Urot=-
I would have to agree with you.I just have a few questions to the Christians in the room.
1. How did Jonah breath? (A whales lungs and stomach are not connected, so how did he get fresh air?)
2. Why didn't Jonah drown while being swallowed whole? (It takes less than a tablespoon of liquid to enter a humans lungs inorder to drown.)
3. How did Jonah survive the weight of the interior pressure of the whale’s stomach walls?
Since a whale has two stomachs: the first, which secretes no enzymes, and a second that takes in, the rotting remains of the decomposing dead once it is small enough to fit through the hole.
4. How did Jonah survive infection/death from being exposed to large quantities of dead flesh for three days and nights?
It would be so easy to say it was God who kept him, but I would like to have a real intelligent answer to these questions.
All things are possible with God. He has control over all things and remember God gave Adam dominion over all things. You would need to go and check the greek/hebrew word for fish/whale. It is possible that the BIBLE mistranslated by man. It was inspired by God not translated. Jonah survived in the belly of the whale the same way Jesus was risen from the dead. God's POWER
Originally posted by VirtuouslyDvin
All things are possible with God. He has control over all things and remember God gave Adam dominion over all things. You would need to go and check the greek/hebrew word for fish/whale. It is possible that the BIBLE mistranslated by man. It was inspired by God not translated. Jonah survived in the belly of the whale the same way Jesus was risen from the dead. God's POWER
Screen shot or it didn't happen.
Originally posted by VirtuouslyDvin
All things are possible with God. He has control over all things and remember God gave Adam dominion over all things. You would need to go and check the greek/hebrew word for fish/whale. It is possible that the BIBLE mistranslated by man. It was inspired by God not translated. Jonah survived in the belly of the whale the same way Jesus was risen from the dead. God's POWER
Only if you believe in magic or supernatural.
Originally posted by Beliver
I was allowing for the "its not a whale its a fish arguement".Have any experts managed to even guess at what breed of fish (or whale ;o] ) could of swallowed the aquanaut in question?
If you look at the stories in the bible and take them literally, you will always miss the mark. The story of Jonah and the Whale is a story about perseverance and faith. The people places and thing do not matter. From time to time are are all swallowed by the whale. 😉
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
If you look at the stories in the bible and take them literally, you will always miss the mark. The story of Jonah and the Whale is a story about perseverance and faith. The people places and thing do not matter. From time to time are are all swallowed by the whale. 😉
So why add the filler? Surely the entire bible could be 10 pages long if you just cut the dead weight away you wouldnt have the most bought yet least read book in the world.
Originally posted by Beliver
So why add the filler? Surely the entire bible could be 10 pages long if you just cut the dead weight away you wouldnt have the most bought yet least read book in the world.
What is the use of a story? Most people can't digest abstract ideas alone. We need a story to place the ideas into a frame work that makes sense to us.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
In 5,000 years Dr. Phil will be a prophet. 😂
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But not as crazy as it sounds, if we lose a lot of our history at some point people who are cleaning up will want advice from the people who came before. Self-help books advertise just that, pretty much the way religion does.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
😂But not as crazy as it sounds, if we lose a lot of our history at some point people who are cleaning up will want advice from the people who came before. Self-help books advertise just that, pretty much the way religion does.
Yet self help books can function without religion.
Most religions are much without the self help book at its core.
Originally posted by Beliver
Yet self help books can function without religion.Most religions are much without the self help book at its core.
Religion is a part of being Human. Religion gives Humans an evolutionary advantage. If you believe that a god is giving you guidance, then you will survive better, then feeling you are lost in a vicious world.
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Religion is a part of being Human. Religion gives Humans an evolutionary advantage. If you believe that a god is giving you guidance, then you will survive better, then feeling you are lost in a vicious world.
I wonder if the machines will think the same when they wipe us out in the future. 😆
Religion is a crutch. It was used in the days of yore to explain things. Things that now can be properly explained by science.
Originally posted by Beliver
I wonder if the machines will think the same when they wipe us out in the future. 😆Religion is a crutch. It was used in the days of yore to explain things. Things that now can be properly explained by science.
Religion exists. It is a tool that can be used to do evil or good. Like all things in the universe, religion by its self is nether good or evil. It all depends on what you and I do with religion.