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Jonah, not Scripture. Jonah. It wasn't what the narrative said. It was what Jonah said. Not God. I like that you took it out of context:

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. 2 He said:


“In my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me.
From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.


Where does the Scripture say Jonah was? In the fish. I prefer to accept things IN CONTEXT, not taken out of context. The methods you just used to prove Jonah died were used to prove Jesus wasn't really God by Arius.
 
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vinsight4u said:
Taking my post out of context because...Well not explained, but possibly because of hatred for what the Scripture says
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Scripture says:

From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God.

Do you not believe Scripture to be telling the truth?
 
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So let's edit the Scripture to match YOUR narrative:

From inside hell Jonah prayed, and then later he prayed this:

Jonah was speaking. He was saying what he felt. It does not follow, in ANY logical way, that his statement overrides the verse before. Either the verse before is correct and you are wrong, or Scripture is lying and you are correct.

Jonah said he was in hell, while actually being inside the fish. Occam's Razor. The explanation with the LEAST assumptions is the most likely to be true.
 
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I love how you cut out the "out of the belly of the fish" part. So I guess that isn't really in Scripture. It's a lie. Good to know. Now I'll just throw the entire book out of my Bible. Thank you for proving the book of Jonah isn't really Scripture because it lies when it says he prayed only out of the belly of the fish.

I am currently talking to you from the International Space Station. Does my saying that make it a true statement?
 
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