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Search results for query: "Jonah 3:1"

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    Lent

    Lent begins today with Ash Wednesday. In the Hebrew Scriptures, after Jonah has announced the destruction of Nineveh and the news reaches the king, he rises from the throne, lays aside his robe, puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes. The king then proclaims a fast. Nineveh mourns its sins and...
  2. Maximus

    Ash Wednesday Feb. 26

    As for symbols of mortality, getting only slightly off-topic here, I always found the use of an akakia a profound part of the Eastern tradition: Akakia - Wikipedia It was a purple silk roll filled with dust to symbolize the mortality of all.
  3. P

    Ash Wednesday Feb. 26

    To the ancients ashes were often symbolic of mortality, mourning or penance. In Hebrew Scripture after Jonah has announced the destruction of Nineveh and the news reached the king he rises from the throne, puts off his robe, puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes, and then proclaims a fast. Nineveh...
  4. Hockeycowboy

    "Why Did God Create Mankind if He Knew Man Would Sin?"

    @Skwim, How come you excluded the one paragraph of my reply that pertained to some of those issues? (BTW, regarding Adam being deceived...1 Timothy 2:14) I'll post it again: "Further, by Jesus saying to them that he (the Devil) was the "father of the lie" and "a manslayer", no deceit had ever...
  5. Norman

    Just Some Bible Tid-Bits!

    Latter Day Saints,just some tid-bits that I have put together over the years. I love the Bible and I read it. However, no prophets of God are infallible. No holy writ is perfect. Man has not given me a witness that the bible is true. I know the Bible is true by the power of the Holy Ghost; there...
  6. Levite

    God lies in the bible

    The verb hafach, which is, in fact, what's used in the text, is an idiom known to be used for complete destruction. In its original context, that is almost certainly how it is intended to be used. But there are a couple of much later midrashim that play on the double meaning of the word, saying...
  7. InChrist

    God lies in the bible

    Maybe some of the Jewish guys on here can comment or verify this: In Jonah 3:4 God told Jonah to bring the message to Ninevah that in forty days they would be overthrown. The text does not say destroyed, but “overthrown’. I was reading that the word “overthrown” in Jonah 3:4 in Hebrew is...
  8. Linus

    Impossibility of Jonah

    It doesn't say that Jonah was realeased right next to Ninehvah. It simply says tht he was spit up onto dry land, then went to Ninevah. So, it seems to me that the animal could have spit him back up near Joppa, and Jonah could have walked from there. Jonah 2:10And the LORD commanded the fish...
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