Saturday, 24 April 2021

Jesus like Jonah?

Outlining factors of the Question 

Does the Jonah story Debunk the Cross? 

Everyone knows belief Jesus rose from the dead is the central issue of Christianity. As is normal in the Old Testament there is a precursor story in the tale of Jonah swallowed by the whale.

Also, Jesus referenced this story and said, just as Jonah was three days in the belly of the whale, He would spend three days in the center of the earth when He went down into hell and preached to those lost in the great flood. 

It is common view that the ancients, without technology, could not be telling the truth as we know it. They were repeating myths, untrue myths never happened. This has been taught in seminaries at least longer than our entire lifetimes. And that is these myths in the Bible are not true, only the meaning is true. 

The Spirit is remembered more clearly than the unknown data dump of existed facts. Today all this is often known and we are buried in trivia hiding much of the impact of the spiritual truth in the matter. 

In fact, ancient historians, writing of events, wrote long after the fact. They therefore, as I said, quoted events more truthfully than the actual facts which were not recorded and therefore unknown. In this the spiritual versions prevailed.

Further, my experience in talking with atheists is that many do not believe in God chiefly because of these unbelievable stories.

So? Where does it stop? 

All these things cry out for consideration and the focus of our faith should be directed to these surrounding issues if they are to survive. Yet I've heard so many Sunday School versions of Jonah and his whale from the pulpit that I wonder if preachers, for the most part, know what the inference is of what they are saying.  And that is that the cross story is a myth also. 

This is why the blog Pulpit Rock exists. It is because there are so many who believe in Jesus Christ but not the power thereof. Notice the subtile effect of "the" power rather than "His" power? (Propaganda 101?) 

In this I have established my terms and the next essay on Jesus and Jonah will appear in Jesus Talking.

Posted by Spencer Corkum, Host and SiteMaster for the Sunset Strollers and the Quoteblokes. at 11:59 am

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