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10-22-2007, 07:05 PM
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I've always loved it when they preach that the Whale spit Jonah out on the shores of Ninevah!!  |
How far inland would that whale have to go to reach Nineveh?
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How far inland would that whale have to go to reach Nineveh?
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Swam up Tigris river and spat him out on the ground there?
Off course, since Jonah boarded ship in Joppa, the whale would first have had to swim out the Straights of Gibraltar, circumnavigated the continent of Africa, passed through Hormuz and thence up the Tigris.
To do this in 3 days time would have been difficult, but not impossible. Well, virtually impossible. Okay, Jonah probably had to walk across Aram from the Mediterranean coast to infiltrate Nineveh.
*** Oh boy! Check this guy out. He says,
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Today Nineveh is 1000 miles from the sea yet Jonah the prophet , swallowed by the Whale fame, lived there and was buried there. Jonah did not walk 1000 miles to be swallowed by a Whale the sea was proximate to Nineveh at that time.
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I'm really taking a chance linking to him here. Apostolics tend to pick up on this type of wackiness and embarrass themselves.
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10-22-2007, 08:46 PM
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"God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."
This is most often interpreted as a requirement to worship with vibrancy and with the knowledge of Acts 2:38, rather than with the inner man and without pretension.
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10-22-2007, 08:51 PM
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Some "Scriptures" that are quoted every now and then:
1. Mercy sought, mercy found
from the stirrup to the ground.
2. In the day of God every tub shall stand on its own bottom.
3. The Lord helps those who help themselves.
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10-22-2007, 08:54 PM
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another one some times misquoted is Eph 5:26 which I've heard quoted by Baptists as "that he might sanctify and cleanse it by the washing of the water of the word,"
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10-22-2007, 10:27 PM
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"God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."
This is most often interpreted as a requirement to worship with vibrancy and with the knowledge of Acts 2:38, rather than with the inner man and without pretension. |
Right. IN TRUTH simply means in reality, and true worship.
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10-22-2007, 09:10 PM
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How far inland would that whale have to go to reach Nineveh?
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I think 40 or so...miles...
about 2 days journey... 
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10-22-2007, 11:07 PM
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Jonah 3:3 states:
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So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey.
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At first reading in the KJV you get the idea that Nineveh was 3 days journey from wherever the whale (or great fish) had vomitted.
The NIV tells us:
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Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city--a visit required three days
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The ASV and others follow the KJV, but the NKJV really helps us out:
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So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent.
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Instead of the NIV which seems to say you need 3 days to see all of the sites, the NKJV tells us that the city huge - it took 3 days to circumnavigate it's walls.
So, Jonah may have travelled for a month to get there, but once he got there he found this huge city. We're not told that he actually walked around the city. The information discussed above seems to have been intended to related the size of the city in that day.
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