Three Days and Nights - A Rockytopva Perspective

[rockytopva]

So.... Jonah disobeys God and is three days in the belly of a whale. He makes the long journey from the Mediterranean up the Tigris River, and is spitted out at the banks of the river which borders the city.

The woman folk are all by the river washing clothes, when all of a sudden a strange sea-like creature emerges from the river. It has been bleached totally white by the gastric acids inside the whales stomach. It's hair looks like snakes emerging from his head in the most wild like of appearances. The clothing are also half ate up showing a skeletal figure in ghost like rags. It smells with a crine smell mixed with the death inside the whales stomach. The figure is also moaning as in great pain. Seaweed and half digested fish stick to this creature, which is basically a horribly sight to the eyes. The monster also has eyes that have been totally dilated, huge, with the only colors to be seen, red and black.

The woman then start running and screaming as they flee inside the gates of Nineveh. The monster then starts running and yelling like a wild man 'Repent! Repent! Forty days and this town is in ruins!' Howling, shrieking, and haunting the town in ghoul-like manner.

The whole town, frightened beyond measure, then repents in sackcloth and ashes, from baby to old man. God then repents and prospers the town. In which Jonah is then treated with great love and attention and dies after living happily ever after. The people then create a great tomb, honoring the man of God, and buries him with great fanfare. The grave of Jonah is still in Nineveh to this day.

 

[Pelaides]

I may be wrong,but i believe it is a great sin to add or subtract from the scriptures.Your account of the book of Jonah is the result of an over active imagination.
Jonah suffered no corruption(decay)while in the belly of the fish.
Jonah had an intense dislike for the people of Ninevah,He probally went back to Tarnish after the completion of his mission.It is highley unlikely he would have died and been buried in Ninveh.

 

[rockytopva]

I may be wrong,but i believe it is a great sin to add or subtract from the scriptures.Your account of the book of Jonah is the result of an over active imagination.
Jonah suffered no corruption(decay)while in the belly of the fish.
Jonah had an intense dislike for the people of Ninevah,He probally went back to Tarnish after the completion of his mission.It is highley unlikely he would have died and been buried in Ninveh.

It's like... Read the bible! Jonah compared the experience to hell itself!


2 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly,
[sup]2 [/sup]And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
[sup]3 [/sup]For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
[sup]4 [/sup]Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
[sup]5 [/sup]The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
[sup]6 [/sup]I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
[sup]7 [/sup]When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
[sup]8 [/sup]They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
[sup]9 [/sup]But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.
[sup]10 [/sup]And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land. - Jonah 2: 1-10

 

[Groundzero]

I like the beginning, and I think your description of Jonah smelling, etc, could very well be the truth.

However, I doubt Jonah stayed in Nineveh. And being a prophet, I don't think he lived happily ever after.

 

[rockytopva]

And the story of Jonah from everyone's favorite preacher... Joel Osteen!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQDOvV6ow8k

 

[theophilus]

So.... Jonah disobeys God and is three days in the belly of a whale. He makes the long journey from the Mediterranean up the Tigris River, and is spitted out at the banks of the river which borders the city.

The Tigris River flows into the Persian Gulf. Since the Suez Canal didn't exist then the fish would have has to swim all the way around Africa to reach it.

The Bible only says that Jonah was was vomited up on dry land; it doesn't say where that land was. Jonah had to make a long journey over land before he could reach Nineveh.

 

[John_8:32]

The Tigris River flows into the Persian Gulf. Since the Suez Canal didn't exist then the fish would have has to swim all the way around Africa to reach it.

The Bible only says that Jonah was was vomited up on dry land; it doesn't say where that land was. Jonah had to make a long journey over land before he could reach Nineveh.

The entire journey was miraculous...

Jon 1:17 Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

And God knew that this was to be a type for His three day and three night stay in the tomb, so expecting this to be a totally natural, ordinary event is not realistic. After all, this was a one of a kind fish.

 

[Groundzero]

And God knew that this was to be a type for His three day and three night stay in the tomb, so expecting this to be a totally natural, ordinary event is not realistic. After all, this was a one of a kind fish.

I believe that it is more than scientifically possible for a man to survive inside a modern-day whale for three days.

 

[Pelaides]

God sent the whale to save jonah from drowning,Most of the larger species of whales are not meat eaters,they feed on plankton and krill,so they may not have the digestive juices to digest a human being.