Can some explain the book of Jonah to me please?

[Kerensa]

I do not trust in some tradition.. about Nineveh being close enough to the coast for the people to see Jonah being thrown up on the beach.. I guess that was made up by someone who was ignorant of just how far Nineveh is from the sea coast....

I agree, that isn't in the Bible at all and isn't even implied anywhere in the story.

I believe God was using Jonah as an example to give a moral message about loving sinners / loving ones enemies.. Jonah should have loved the people of Nineveh and hoped for their repentance and salvation.. But it is clear Jonah did not care at all for the people of Nineveh and God brough conviction upon Jonah in the end and through that sent a message to us..

Yes, that's just what I was trying to say earlier.

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

I do not trust in some tradition.

Do not trust tradition.
YHWH never says to.
The world's overwhelming deceptions are from tradition.
Billions of souls are destroyed, millions of babies and little children's lives, and their parent's lives, destroyed by tradition.
So, that is good not to trust tradition.

 

[Hammster]

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