IS THE JONAH STORY TRUE?

IS THE JONAH STORY TRUE?

Wednesday, March 4, 2020



  John [MKJV] 17:14-17 I have given them Your Word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I do not pray for You to take them out of the world, but for You to keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.

  Romans [MKJV] 3:3-4 For what? If some did not believe, will not their unbelief nullify the faith of God?

Let it not be! But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, "That You might be justified in Your sayings, and will overcome when You are judged."

  Titus [GW] 1:1-3 From Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I was sent to lead God's chosen people to faith and to the knowledge of the truth that leads to a godly life. My message is based on the confidence of eternal life. God, who never lies, promised this eternal life before the world began.

God has revealed this in every era by spreading his word. I was entrusted with this word by the command of God our Savior.

  Hebrews 6:17-20 In this way desiring to declare more fully to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, God interposed by an oath, so that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil, where the Forerunner has entered for us, even Jesus, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.



  I’ve been asked if the Jonah story is true or is it a representative tale? Yes, it is true whether individuals or groups believe it or not.

  Not believing the earth is round doesn’t make it flat, all evidence showing it a globe. Totally denying the veracity of the Word Incarnate (Living, Jn.1:1) and written (2Tim.3:16; 2Pet.1:20), or being a professing Christian that believes the Bible pick-and-choose cafeteria style, does not make its content or the Author untrue.

  Then there’s the fickle contradictory “I believe I’m going to heaven because Jesus redeemed me.”, or some such statement of faith in His salvation . . . but not believing portions of Scripture like the story of Jonah – when the same Jesus verified the story as is recorded in 2 of the Gospels: Mt.12:39-41; 16:4; Lk.11:29-32.

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