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Jonah
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 10:26 am
by Mariolee
How IS it physically possible for him to be swallowed by a giant fish? Any articles?
Re: Jonah
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:13 am
by B. W.
Mariolee wrote:How IS it physically possible for him to be swallowed by a giant fish? Any articles?
Jeremy Wade's - Monster Fish TV show on Animal Planet... has a bit on this...
There are sharks that have swallowed people too...
So it is possible for Jonah to be swallowed and kept alive for 72 hours inside a big fish
only by God's grace and survive the ordeal.
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Re: Jonah
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 11:45 am
by Jac3510
People have gotten eaten by big fishes before. But I wonder about "physically possible." Is the problem you have with how someone would survive that? That seems to be the most common assumption, but why make it? There's nothing keeping God from bring Jonah back to life, is there? And in his prayer, he does mention Sheol. So maybe he didn't survive the ordeal. Maybe God did a greater miracle than we realize.
Re: Jonah
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:19 am
by neo-x
Some of the arteries of the blue whale are so big that an average size man can swim through them and some of its cavities are so big that a man can sit or lay down without hurting the whale from the inside. Not saying it was a whale, whale is not a fish though I doubt the Hebrew writers could have made that distinction. Anyway, just saying that a big fish may have been able to hold him and then release him to. The point is, it is plausible.