The Story of Jonah
Clearly, the story of Augustine did not lend itself to comments and interaction. So, I want to change subjects now to something a little more practical for me -- something that I'm going to teach about for the next few weeks: the Story of Jonah.
When I was a kid the story was about two things:
1. Proving to people that a full-grown man actually could be swallowed by a fish and live to tell about it. If a person didn't believe that this story actually happened, they might not believe that anything in the Bible actually happened. And it had to be a fish -- not a whale. It seemed very important that God got his animal classification right.
2. The moral of the story was: If you run from God, he'll get you.
Anyone else have that experience?
Anyone want to chime in on what the story is really about?
When I was a kid the story was about two things:
1. Proving to people that a full-grown man actually could be swallowed by a fish and live to tell about it. If a person didn't believe that this story actually happened, they might not believe that anything in the Bible actually happened. And it had to be a fish -- not a whale. It seemed very important that God got his animal classification right.
2. The moral of the story was: If you run from God, he'll get you.
Anyone else have that experience?
Anyone want to chime in on what the story is really about?
posted by john alan turner at 9:52 AM
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