Dear Truth:
Yes, that's it. I cannot accept the following:
1) That a fish large enough to swallow a man entirely into the fish's stomach subsequently could remain in a stable enough physical condition to swim around, navigate to shore, and regurgitate the man without at least partially digesting the fellow. Is Ken saying that the fish's digestive system totally shut down?
2) That a fish's stomach provides satisfactory habitat for a man to remain alive for three days. Show me the oxygen supply.
3) That either Nature or God has ever produced an animal specifically for the single purpose of swallowing another live being whole, carrying that being alive inside it's digestive system for three days, and then regurgitating the other living being whole, alive, and sound.
4) That either the writers of the Bible, or God for that matter, ever intended every single word of every single biblical story to be interpreted literally rather than as metaphor, parable, moral lesson, etc. That would be an obviously rediculous concept in and of itself.
5) That any individual would even advance the possibility of the Jonah Story to be factual, attempt to back it up with National Inquirer-style accounts, present it as "scientifically possible" and actually waste his own time pondering the "possibility" rather than spend the same time exploring the moral and spiritual basis of the story. I mean, get a grip and put some meaning in it. This isn't Sunday School for Kindergartners.
[First of all, Ken, look into the Phonecian sea people's practices regarding human sacrifice during perilous storm events at sea, and then compare that with the Jewish teachings contemporary to the time of "Jonah."]
Peace
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