Was the Story of Jonah just a big mythological fish story? Are the liberal critical "scholars" correct when they say that the story of Jonah can't possibly be real history?
Well, who are you going to believe? Jesus or the liberal critical "scholars"? For you see, Jesus, who is God in human flesh, believed the story of Jonah to be literal history:
“Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.” (Matthew 12:38–41)
It's not wise to have a view of the scriptures that differs from Jesus' view because no one has better credentials than our crucified and risen Lord.
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