Well, if you want to believe that Jonah was really in the belly of a ‘whale’ for days, that Noah fed all those animals for all those days, and all the other stories in the Bible, then go for it.
Some of us take the lessons; and Santa, as the tradition has come down to us, is a STORY, and a great lesson in kindness, generosity, and all sorts of values that Jesus taught.
But it might require that you got the stick out of your ....oh, never mind.
I guess the Word of God is nothing but fables to you eh?
To bad you don’t defend the God of creation like you do the god of this world. Your choice!
I repeat myself...
2 Timothy 4:4
King James Version
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Titus 1:14
King James Version
14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Signed, sincerely,
Sparky
“It ain’t necessarily so”.
~~Porgy and Bess
Since Jesus mentions that “only the sign of Jonah, who was in the belly of the fish for 3 days and three nights, would be given this generation”, perhaps this Jesus that taught” kindness, generosity, and all sorts of values”...believed also that the Jonah’s fish tale was real.
Do you think Jesus was a liar?
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“Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here” (Matthew 12:38–41).
The context won’t allow anyone to suggest that Jesus as depicted here was using myth to foretell his own death and resurrection. He was using what he thought was stone cold history.
Now you might be a Jeffersonian type that relegates Jesus to that of a great teacher who had mythical stories of power and miracles built around his ethos....that is a different argument. The account we have from Matthew however shows us that this man, Mythical or not to you, believed the Jonah accounts as being historically accurate.
The Bible is either true or it isnt. There can be no in between.
We are talking about a Book that comes to us from a source that SPOKE all things into existence. Buy the premise buy the flick, as the old movie reviewer used to say.
If God wanted Noah’s animals to survive, they would. If God wanted Jonah to survive as described, he would. If God thought men should live for centuries, they would. If God wanted a Guy to feed thousands with but enough for a few, He would.