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You missed 4:2. Jonah already "knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity."

No--the reason Jonah was angry was that God chose to spare Ninevah--a mortal enemy of Judah at the time.

It would be like one of us going to Iran and proclaiming God's wrath on them and they repenting and being spared, rather than the destruction we hope would befall them.

Jonah hated Ninevah, and he hated having to go there, and he REALLY hated that God spared them.

276 posted on 07/21/2015 7:30:47 AM PDT by ShadowAce (ARE)

282 posted on 07/21/2015 10:57:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Yes, you make a very sound argument.

290 posted on 07/21/2015 2:51:39 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)

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