Isn't the universalist message of the Book of Jonah kind of odd given its age (estimated 6c.BC - Hellenic period)?God in the Old Testament seems to be rather this 'proto-nationlistic' tribal God of Israel which only Jews are allowed to worship and suddenly we've got this story where Ninevaians are spared because they had shown humility.
>>18445518I love this comic. It's so cool how instead of getting jobs or having sex you play with your little dolls to convey stories. You're like the icon writers of the 21st century.
>>18445518Noah wasnt a jew as you are defining it
>>18445518Jonah is a cope. Considering how evil the Assyrians are they wanted to understand why God didn't destroy them.
Biologically speaking I don't believe a human could survive inside the belly of a whale for 3 whole days and nights...
>>18445529Also, this book is obvious fiction because there’s literally evidence to suggest that Ninevah ever converted to Judaism at any point and in reality, they still continued to worship their native gods up until the Christianization of the Assyrians in the 2nd to 3rd century AD. There’s also the fact that Assyria remained “wicked” even after they supposedly “repented” as Ashurbanipal, the most brutal Assyrian king, lived long after Jonah.
>>18445518No, because you’re mistakenly assuming God does not exist instead of recognizing the scriptures as the self-revelation of the unchanging eternal God.
>>18445539I’m honestly shocked and even a little horrified that the Jews would lie about what happened to them and about what their enemies did. That’s sick. Good thing they kicked that habit a long time ago.
>>18445539The book does not claim they converted to Judaism, Anon…
>>18445546Then what did they repent of? Now the story feels like a bunch of priests telling the Jews how much they suck because even the Assyrians (read:Nazis) repented when they heard Yahweh’s warnings.
>>18445539There's also 0 evidence that Moses ever existed or great that numbers of Jews were enslaved in Egypt or that there was an exodus, despite thousands of years of Jews, Christians and Muslims desperately searching for proofs.
>>18445549They repented of a particular sin of that time, and only it. We read nothing of the Assyrians turning away from their gods or embracing the laws of Judaism, only a single repentance of a particular sin. It is very strangely written if the author’s intent is to tell us the Assyrians converted to Judaism.
>>18445533I heard that some 18-century monk theorised that Jonah spent these 3 days in some taproom drinking there.
>>18445550>0 evidence
>>18445569Why would the Assyrians listen to a rambling Canaanite anyway? Repent of what? It implies not only was there a Law of Moses at the time of Jonah but that the Assyrians knew what it demanded.
>>18445571I mean the book of Jonah compares the inside of the fish's belly to Sheol, so maybe it was just a metaphor for being away from God or something
>>18445574Jonah wasn’t a Canaanite, there was a law of Moses at the time, and the distinct evils of the Assyrians are well known to this day.
>>18445573Fifth hand accounts of mythological tales which use circular reasoning isn't evidence or else we could equally claim every religion is true based on its myths
>>18445573>not KJVto the trash it goes
>>18445571>>18445576That’s unbelief, Jonah ends up in the fish’s belly by being thrown overboard from a ship and the fish carries him to the coast where it spits him onto land. This metaphorical interpretation is impossible. The only reason to doubt the story is if you believe there is no God and therefore miracles could not happen.
>>18445579Moses isn’t real, and the real Jonah was a Canaanite court prophet serving the Omrides.
>>18445539>>18445543>>18445546>>18445550>Also, this book is obvious fiction because there’s literally evidence to suggest that Ninevah ever converted to Judaism at any point Meant to say “literally no evidence” not “literally evidence,” mb.
>>18445580I agree, that’s why I reject the atheist religion and its evolution myth.
>>18445585Incorrect
>>18445584Complete Biblical literalism is a very niche and not widely respected position. You won't find anyone who agrees with you outside of Appalachia, the Deep South, or Sub-Saharan Africa.
>>18445587Do you also believe the world is flat and 6000 years old and orbited by the Sun?
>>18445589Absolutely correct. But as long as the religion makes you a better person I’d rather you believe otherwise.
>>18445595By “complete biblical literalism” you mean orthodoxy, belief in God. If you think your appeal to the wisdom of the world will persuade me you are a fool. I have brethren across the world who have not bent the knee to Baal.
>>18445599Better person? What’s that mean? If there’s no God then there’s nothing wrong with killing women and children in the street so I think you just borrowed my worldview.>>18445598The world is about 6,000 years old.
>>18445602You proved my point. Keep believing in the Bible, you psychopath.
>>18445601Your fundementalist, literalist, double Calvinist interpretation of Christianity wasn't even invented until the 18th century. Before then everyone understood what a metaphor was. Then retards like you started surviving past infancy due to technological progress.As the leading Early Christian scholar Origen of Alexandria wrote:>“Who is so silly as to believe that God planted a paradise eastward in Eden, and set in it a visible and palpable tree of life and anyone who tasted its fruit with his bodily teeth would gain life?”It appears the intelligence of Christians has only declined since the religion was first practiced.
>>18445573A jewish history book that has had multiple edits over millennia, plagiarized the Enuma Elish scribed on clay tablets, 4000 years before the bible and that has had 0 edits.
>>18445602>The world is about 6,000 years old.We have evidence of human activity from 360,000 years ago. 60x longer ago than you believe the universe has existed for.How do you explain dinosaurs? Or geology? Or astronomy?
>>18445605God bless you.>>18445607This is historically false, and it’s telling that you can only cite Origen, the condemned, highly unorthodox heretic as an antecedent for your syncretism. It is highly dishonest for you to cast your re-interpretation as “knowing what a metaphor is”, when you have no exegetical argument nor was your novel interpretation known for thousands of years of history. What you meant to say is that the meaning of the text is literal, but you don’t believe it because you are a syncretist with the atheist religion, a cultist of Baal, so you rewrite the text and willfully corrupt the scripture like your father the devil. >>18445610Incorrect>>18445612You have evidence of human activity but it’s not that old. All those other things are testimonies to the power of God.
>>18445622Imagine writing all this bullshit at 9 am on a weekdayWhewlad
i hate sharing a board with mentally ill boomers
>>18445666Nice digits, infidel. Do you think your jokes will be as funny when the devil is cutting the flesh off your bones with a hot knife in hell, reciting each one of your "clever" little quips to you, again and again and again?
>>18445522It must suck being able to only do one thing or another for you. Try getting more hobbies and interests
>>18445723the devil is an invention of herodian jews
>>18445539wait until you read about the rest of bibble
