Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60096 The question of whether Jonah was swallowed by a great fish and survived is one that divides those who approach Scripture assuming miracles cannot occur and those who take the text on its own terms. For the reader who accepts that the God who created the ocean and everything in it is capable…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02049 Several passages in the Old Testament appear, on first reading, to describe God changing His mind. Genesis 6:6 states that “the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth.” Exodus 32:14 records that “the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.” Jonah 3:10 notes…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2070 Genesis 6:6 records that “the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” Jonah 3:10 states that “when God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them,…