Was Jonah a Jewish fanatic like Saul or just Jewish bigot atheistic fascist?

mathinspiration said:

Is there any evidence that Jonah didn't listen to God because he didn't believe in him or was it because he was hater?

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Neither, he believed in God, but also believed that God was the God of Israel and not of the gentiles.

In reading Jonah God is speaking to Jonah so the question is did Jonah know this was God and in Jonah 1:9 he says "I am a Hebrew and I worship the LORD". So I don't see evidence for "Jonah didn't listen to God because he didn't believe in him".

Being a hater. I am not sure I get that from Jonah.

Jonah to me is like some of us who get lost in thinking like Jonah 2:8-9 " Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs. But I, with a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. Salvation comes from the LORD."

Jonah knew God to be Jonah 4:2 "...you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love..."

Jonah in my opinion thought that gracious should go to those who deserve it.

We get lost in our opinion of who is justified to get God's help.

Kylism

Jonah wanted Nineveh to be destroyed. He didn't want to go and warn them in case they repented because He knew that God is a God of grace and mercy and would spare them. That's why he tried to get away from God, but he underestimated the wide reach of God to get hold of him no matter where he went. When he got to Nineveh and gave them the message, they all did what he knew they would and repented. So he went out of the city, sat down and sulked. God had to come and speak reason into him. We don't know how Jonah responded to that. Jonah knew the atrocities that the people of Nineveh had done to the people of Israel when they sent raiding parties to kill innocent men women and children. Jonah could never forgive that. He was not God. He was a human like all the rest of us. Do you feel sad or glad when Adolf Hitler and his gang of criminals met a sticky end at the end of the second world war? Do you get pleasure at seeing Isis fighters being killed, especially after hearing about the atrocities they did to innocent people? If God told you to go to the Isis leadership and tell them that they will be utterly destroyed in 40 days, would you go, or would you run in the opposite direction? (not to preserve your life, but because you want to see the whole lot of them destroyed?) Challenging questions. The truth is that we are not as gracious and merciful as God is.

I think Jonah was prejudiced against the Ninevites. See Jon 4:1-2. He wanted them destroyed, and he knew God would spare them if they repented, which they did. So Jonah sulked when they were saved. Not a very wholesome prophet, eh?

mathinspiration said:

Is there any evidence that Jonah didn't listen to God because he didn't believe in him or was it because he was hater?

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His dialog with God below sure seems to make it clear he believed in God, and even understood His nature in such matters. He just simply didn't want the Ninevites to be forgiven. When you look at what these people did to those they conquered, from a human perspective only, it's an understandable anger.

Jon 3:10-4:3 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them, and he did not do it. But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

mathinspiration said:

Is there any evidence that Jonah didn't listen to God because he didn't believe in him or was it because he was hater?

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What do you have against Jews?