No no you don’t understand. You shouldn’t be taking it literally it’s an allegory - many theists probably
The authors didn’t make a distinction between whales and fish.
to be fair, there’s no such thing as a fish…
It says it right trere, first paragraph
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It says “large fish” in Hebrew.
Yes, and if they had a word for whale specifically, it was considered a type of large fish.
Now, the text doesn’t say “God appointed a whale” but just “a great fish.” Both the original Hebrew dag gadol and the Greek of the Septuagint, kētei megalōi, translate as “huge fish.” Archaeology has proved that the Mediterranean was once home to a great variety of whales —which the Romans hunted almost to the point of extinction. It might be the case that the author of the biblical text simply wanted to contrast Jonah’s “closed mouth” to that of the “big fish,” able not only to swallow a whole human being but also being hollow enough as to provide him with safe shelter for three days and three nights. Interestingly enough, during those three days Jonah certainly keeps his mouth open — he seems to spend them praying out loud.
But how did this “big fish” turn into a whale and not into one of the 47 species of sharks found in the Mediterranean? It seems St. Jerome is to blame.
https://aleteia.org/2021/07/15/jonah-was-not-swallowed-by-a-whale
Does it really matter whether it was a whale or a “fish”? You can’t live in either, so it’s a BS story in a book of fairytales people take way too seriously.
No, it doesn’t matter. This was purely academic.
You’re taking the story too literally.
But that book is the only thing that keeps them from going on murderous rampages. Coming to think of it, it’s not even very good at stopping the murderous rampages.
The Crusades, the Inquisition, the war in the middle east - all Abrahamic-religiously motivated murderous activities.
Israel - Palestine is two non-Christian abrahamic religions fighting each other currently. Then of course there’s Catholics and Protestants, and all the different Muslim - Christian conflicts.
Tell ya what, I’ll build a time machine, go back, find this Abraham guy, teach him English, get him caught up on the last 2 millennia, and have him straighten out all this shit.
What if John Wilkes Booth was a time traveling assassin and got the wrong Abraham?
I’d read that short story.
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It certainly does not stop them from raping. However reading the Bible, it seems it actually encourages both murder and rape.
Only of furiners. Red blooded <your in-group here>s are safe.
Depends on the eyes reading it, I read the Bible like several times and all it did was make me not believe in it less each time
How about Numbers 31:17-18 where Moses says:
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Definitely not as sex slaves, as a certain religious person I know argues, as apparently that would be intermarriage and forbidden! They just have to live with the trauma of having their entire family brutally murdered before them, and then being enslaved to the murderers for the rest of their lives. So much better!
How would you have morals without religion
As an example of what not to do
Hey man housing is housing
Probably get 1k a month for a good sized fish stomach.
I remember that Ren and Stimpy episode…
But it’s not supposed to be literal!
(unless I say it is)
If you read it the right way, the book of Jonah reads like a really weird episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
What’s the book of Job then? A you tube prank channel run by man-babies?
A narcissistic asshole gaslighting its victims into believing they’re not really victims because the narcissistic asshole made a bet.
It’s supposed the be an explanation for how evil can exist despite a benevolent creator… but it sums up as a sock puppet to which the explanation is “you wouldn’t understand”
It’s also completely undermined in Isaiah.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7. Evil exists because God creates evil.
pretty sure Isaiah didn’t conceive of a benevolent god.
pretty sure Isaiah’s god (all four isaiahs, in fact,) was a pretty freaking angry god.
The Bible is nothing if not inconsistent.
“Sorry about your wives and kids, have some new ones. It was just a prank bro.”
Arrested Development
Pretty much yeah. I was going to say an episode of Fear Factor but same thing.
I believe ever time the bible mentions angel in physical form was just Albino people fucking around.
Biblically accurate angels are exactly what youd see on some good psychedelics
For those unfamiliar:
Everyone knows cherubim are naked babies
More properly known as putti but terminology gets mixed up all the time.
