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  • #1

    Hello all fellow Christians

    Hello everyone!

    My name is John and i am originally from Sweden, though I live in Ireland, Dublin to work.

    I currently go to the Christs Church in Dublin from time to time.

    However, I am a little bit confused about certain things written in the Bible, such as my favorite verse seen bellow. It's my favorite because i find it a bit humorous(don't get me wrong) yet makes you think a lot about what God is really capable of etc.
    But I hope to find some answers on this forum.

    The verse is
    Jonah 1:17
    "Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights."



    Jesus first touched me when I was after I was diagnosed with leukemia when I was 11. The doctors wanted to use Chemotherapy as an attempt to get me cured, but me and my parents decided not to go through it, and instead Pray and spend time in the church instead and hope God would forgive me for what I might have done to deserve the sickness, and here I am 10 years later asking myself why God chose to first make me sick and then give me this second chance and how to make it up for him.
    The Bible is huge and dont know if it is practically possible to follow everything that is said in the Bible in today's society and therefore asking myself how many actually makes it to Heaven.

    Do God read between the lines sometimes, if you really try to follow His words but failed while trying?

    Anyway, thank you for your time and see you around!
    Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
    abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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  • #2
    Re: Hello all fellow Christians

    Originally posted by JohnSwede View Post
    yet makes you think a lot about what God is really capable of etc.
    What does that make you think then?

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    • #3
      Re: Hello all fellow Christians

      Originally posted by JohnSwede View Post
      Hello everyone!

      My name is John and i am originally from Sweden, though I live in Ireland, Dublin to work.
      Come back when you're sober mick.

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      • #4
        Re: Hello all fellow Christians

        Originally posted by Alphonse Alban View Post
        What does that make you think then?

        It makes me think that you should never give up. I mean, normally if yo would be swallowed by a giant fish, you would die, but praying for a miracle to happen hard enough could make you go through the most "impossible" things. Like me and my leukemia. But still I am confused about the verse, like personally it sounds humorous, maybe it was God's intent? Maybe its just a humorous metaphor for something complete different than what was literally written in the Bible?
        Like with the cancer I had. Lets say the Giant fish, was a giant Cancer associated to the sickness which Jonah suffered from for 3 days and 3 nights before God forgave?

        I dont know, I find it hard to interpret the bible literary considering it was not originally written in Swedish nor English but a complete different language containing a different "philosophy" within its language.
        Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
        abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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        • #5
          Re: Hello all fellow Christians

          Originally posted by Deaner View Post
          Come back when you're sober mick.
          I don't like prejudices.
          Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
          abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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          • #6
            Re: Hello all fellow Christians

            Originally posted by JohnSwede View Post
            I don't like prejudices.
            I don't like drunks.

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            • #7
              Re: Hello all fellow Christians

              Originally posted by JohnSwede View Post
              I don't like prejudices.
              'Prejudices', is that some sort of a irish juice you mix with your potato whiskey?
              Are you a protestant or a catlick?
              Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
              Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
              Numbers 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
              Matthew 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
              Matthew 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
              Matthew 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.

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              • #8
                Re: Hello all fellow Christians

                Originally posted by James Hutchins View Post
                'Prejudices', is that some sort of a irish juice you mix with your potato whiskey?
                Are you a protestant or a catlick?
                Oh don't start me on prejudices and stereotyping about Americans

                I am a Lutheran, so Protestant.
                Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
                abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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                • #9
                  Re: Hello all fellow Christians

                  What does that make you think then?

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                  • #10
                    Re: Hello all fellow Christians

                    Originally posted by fentaness View Post
                    What does that make you think then?
                    That you shouldn't take the words in the bible 100% literary because a literal translation from Hebrew and Greek would be completely different than it is now.
                    Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
                    abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Hello all fellow Christians

                      Originally posted by JohnSwede View Post
                      That you shouldn't take the words in the bible 100% literary because a literal translation from Hebrew and Greek would be completely different than it is now.
                      If we don't take the Bible literally, what then do we do? Make up meanings we're comfortable with? Change the words, or their meaning, to suit our own views and our own sense of morality? We get to make the Bible whatever we want it to be rather than what it is?

                      That's a dangerous path that leads to such abominations as Catholicism, Lutheranism and Furryism, among others. No thanks, I think I'll just stick with the Bible as it is: God's perfect Word.

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                      • #12
                        Re: Hello all fellow Christians

                        Originally posted by Destiny's Blunder View Post
                        If we don't take the Bible literally, what then do we do? Make up meanings we're comfortable with? Change the words, or their meaning, to suit our own views and our own sense of morality? We get to make the Bible whatever we want it to be rather than what it is?

                        That's a dangerous path that leads to such abominations as Catholicism, Lutheranism and Furryism, among others. No thanks, I think I'll just stick with the Bible as it is: God's perfect Word.
                        Then I assume that you are reading the bible on it's original language, right?
                        Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
                        abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Hello all fellow Christians

                          Originally posted by JohnSwede View Post
                          Then I assume that you are reading the bible on it's original language, right?
                          Of course we are reading KJV bible on it's original language.

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                          • #14
                            Re: Hello all fellow Christians

                            Originally posted by Alphonse Alban View Post
                            Of course we are reading KJV bible on it's original language.
                            King James of England translated the original Bible into English. you don't believe there were any mistakes in the translation? I mean, first of all you are reading something that was translated by a Protestant Englishman and second of all Hebrew and Greek among other languages are pretty difficult to translate literary into English.
                            Psalm 14:1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
                            abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Hello all fellow Christians

                              Originally posted by JohnSwede View Post
                              first of all you are reading something that was translated by a Protestant Englishman and second of all Hebrew and Greek among other languages are pretty difficult to translate literary into English.
                              Maybe that's why you need to be a literary scholar to be able to do it? Are you saying that it is impossible to translate a book from one language to another?
                              May you be a blessing to every life you touch.

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