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? asked in Entertainment & MusicMovies · 3 years ago

Is it true that Jonah was in the big belly of the big fish , and then was vomited out on to dry land? Some think so do you?

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  • 3 years ago

    Yes, I believe that.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    Yes. I have a very good reason to believe the account. Jesus Christ referred to the account as real. And Jesus, like his Father, does not lie. In spite of the fact that the Son of God himself testified to the truthfulness of the account about Jonah’s being swallowed by a “huge fish,” this incident is frequently cited with a view to discrediting the reliability of the Scriptural record. (Mt 12:40)

    Of course, it should be remembered that the Bible simply states that “Jehovah appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah,” the kind of fish not being named. (Jon 1:17) There definitely are sea creatures capable of swallowing a man, among them being the white shark and the sperm whale.—See Walker’s Mammals of the World, revised by R. Nowak and J. Paradiso, 1983, Vol. II, p. 901; Australian Zoological Handbook, The Fishes of Australia, by G. P. Whitley, Sydney, 1940, Part 1—The Sharks, p. 125.

    So it cannot be determined just what “fish” might have been involved. In fact, man’s knowledge of the creatures inhabiting the seas and oceans is rather incomplete. Noted the magazine Scientific American (September 1969, p. 162): “As it has in the past, further exploration of the abyssal realm will undoubtedly reveal undescribed creatures including members of groups thought long extinct.”

    Source(s): Holy Bible Science
  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    No, that is more fantasy in a book of primitive fantasy!

  • Edwena
    Lv 7
    3 years ago

    It is quite possible for someone to be tangled up inside the mouth of a sick whale for a few days.

  • 3 years ago

    of course not

  • 3 years ago

    Lots of people live in Wales.

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