tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9242710.post1845843141512314007..comments2023-10-31T07:23:17.922-04:00Comments on The Theos Project: Man on the runJonathan Erdmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04234688186113838474noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9242710.post-15756011369516874832007-01-23T12:41:00.000-05:002007-01-23T12:41:00.000-05:00All of these are good questions to keep in mind as...All of these are good questions to keep in mind as we proceed. Especially the question about the psalm Jonah wrote while in the fish's tummy. It sounds so pious and spiritual. If he had hate in his heart it seems as though it got flushed out of his system before he was....uh...er....flushed out of the fish's system....<br /><br />I think I'm going to stick with my hate hypothesis for now, and hope it works out for me! We shall see, however, if other options are better. I'm open. There is a lot to explore about this dude.Jonathan Erdmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234688186113838474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9242710.post-43945972870213456412007-01-23T12:16:00.000-05:002007-01-23T12:16:00.000-05:00Jon: There is quite a bit going on even in the fir...Jon: <i>There is quite a bit going on even in the first few verses.</i><br /><br />Only when you flash back through half the OT to expound upon them ;) <br /><br />It is kinda crazy though, being willing to leave everything just to get out of it. <br /><br />I guess as a kid I always thought he was scared, because that made sense to me. Ninevah was a big scary city with big scary people who might just take off your head if they didn't like you. <br /><br />It made sense to risk it all but keep your life...maybe not eternaly, but for a gut reaction it makes sense. <br /><br />And then he gets stuck in the whale...so what has he got to lose? Even if he <i>had</i> a long life, who wants to spend it in a whale? Might as well go risk it all in Ninavah. <br /><br />So, veering back to the point, it just seems odd to me, with this idea that it was Jonah's hate making him run away, that Jonah ever repented the first time in the whale. <br /><br />For what? It seems he pretty much knew what was going to happen...or he wouldn't have been so ticked. And if he knew...why the let down at the end? Why didn't he come to terms with what would happen while he was in the whale?Melodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10071513255237535104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9242710.post-87569567562502360102007-01-23T08:28:00.000-05:002007-01-23T08:28:00.000-05:00Thanks, K. That's good stuff!
I'd like to explore...Thanks, K. That's good stuff!<br /><br />I'd like to explore more of the <i>soul</i> of this story. There is just so much going on. I looked over this post again and thought to myself, "Geesh, that's a lot of words." But the writing seemed to take only a few moments. There is quite a bit going on even in the first few verses.Jonathan Erdmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234688186113838474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9242710.post-9159291682259306292007-01-23T08:20:00.000-05:002007-01-23T08:20:00.000-05:00"Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapte..."Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters -- four yarns -- is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah's deep sea line sound! what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish's belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; seaweed and all the slime of the sea is about us!" <br /><br />Thus begins Father Mapple's sermon -- Chapter 9 of <i>Moby Dick</i>. You just don't hear preaching like that any more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com