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NASB | Matthew 12:40 for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 12:40 for just as JONAH WAS THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS IN THE BELLY OF THE SEA MONSTER, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. [Jon 1:17] |
Subject: Did Jonah die in the belly of the fish? |
Bible Note: Hi, Jesusman - I certainly won't chide you for your offering of a bit of extra-biblical evidence. Extra-biblical evidence of the historical events recorded in Scripture abounds, and the more sophisticated all branches of true science grow -- this does not include wild theories, such as evolution, which has neither scientific nor biblical support -- the more they tend to corrobrate what was written centuries ago in God's word. One of my favorite web sites is Institute for Creation Research (icr.org). These Christian scholars and scientists in El Cajon, California have done much research into creationism and evolution, Noah's devastating flood, Jonah's big fish and many other events recorded in Scripture. Ours is not a blind faith based on myths and fairy tales, but on the God of creation and the Man, Christ Jesus, a real person in history, who walked and talked along the shores of Lake Galilee and the streets of Jerusalem. In his book, "The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict," Josh McDowell has no qualms at all about documenting strong archeological evidence in support of the reliability of both the Old and New Testaments. I see nothing at all wrong with the work and research of the Christian men and women at icr.org nor with such fine works as Josh McDowell has produced. Thus, my friend, I have no reason at all to find anything wrong with your illustration of a modern-day Jonah who spent a short vacation within a fish. As for me, I'd sooner observe a fish from without than from within, but there's no accounting for taste, I suppose. :-) ...... Someone may say, "But I don't need any evidence beyond what God has written in His Word." Fine. Neither do I. But in our time hosts of churches are turning away from sola scriptura to a crass liberalism that seeks to replace the authority of Scripture with the deceptive lies of humanism. Perhaps those who hold Scripture in such low regard would profit from the incontrovertible evidence of extra-biblical sources. I don't know that they would. It takes more than hard evidence to convince and convict anyone whose heart is as hard as stone. See Ezek. 36:26. --Hank |