@ Jillienne «Stand YOUR own ground, don't expect people to forsake God by telling them how «impossible» it is for a man to be
swallowed by a fish, an argument that really bears no weight actually, because frankly, if you believe that Dinosaurs once roamed the earth (a proven fact) there is nothing wrong with believing a man could have been swallowed by a giant whale... it's really not that strange..»
God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was
swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.
A character is
swallowed by a fish.
Not exact matches
Then there are more risky questions, like why are the gospel stories so different, does Timothy really sound like it was written
by Paul, do people really get
swallowed by great
fishes, do people really rise from the dead, is there a god.
Many scholars regard the figure of Jonah in this book as a symbolic representation of the people of Israel, and then the period of three days and three nights during which Jonah remained in the belly of the great
fish represents the exile in which Israel was
swallowed by Bel.
God saved him from drowning
by having the great
fish swallow him.
You can not run away from God and what He wants so Jonah was
swallowed by a big
fish, and prayed a prayer that was self - centered and lacked a repentant attitude.
What can not be verified is stuff like Jonah being
swallowed by a big
fish yet the ideogram for Nineveh is the «house of the
fish».
He was
swallowed by a great
fish!
He takes a ship in the opposite direction to escape God's command, is thrown overboard during a storm, is
swallowed by «a great
fish,» and regurgitated at the very place he was trying to avoid.
In the debate over whether a man could literally be
swallowed by a whale, or a great
fish, and live therein for three days, the real significance of the book has often been lost.
But God proves himself omnipresent: he sends a deadly storm; Jonah, spotted
by lot as the guilty man, is thrown overboard; a great
fish swallows him and three days later disgorges him.
But size can be costly, and many
fish make the most of their mass
by growing into awkward, spiky shapes that are hard to
swallow.
One of my early novels was bought
by an old but good UK publisher but published — badly —
by the bigger
fish that had just
swallowed it, mid publication.
This bird feeds
by scooping small
fish out of the water and
swallowing them whole.
Those pieces of plastic in our local waterways break down into microplastics which can then be eaten or
swallowed by sea life and
fish.
Android Wear is on more wrists than ever, but the software isn't the best; the Apple Watch is basically useless if you don't carry an iPhone; and old stalwarts like Pebble have been
swallowed up
by bigger
fish to produce... well, whatever the Fitbit Ionic is.