Apologetics and Evidence

Imagine yourself when you were a child watching the old time Disney movie, “Pinocchio” and seeing the inside of the whale that Pinocchio was trapped in, after it swallowed him. Of course he was a wooden boy, but did the whale really swallow him or was that something completely fictitious? My point is, Pinocchio claims to be fiction by what the author places in the story. A living wooden boy, who also has a chance of turning into a real boy someday if he doesn’t blow it, and his wooden nose grows when he lies; everything about that story is fictional. Let’s take a look at something real. Although the author of the book of Jonah doesn’t explicitly tell the readers who the actual author really is, I believe that Jonah was the author for many reasons. One reason would be because of the way it ends. The book ends with a question directed towards Jonah from God and there is no reply from Jonah. I feel that once one sees the tone of the remote context, it can be observed that m...

Gracious , compassionate and abundant in loving-kindness . Here are three descriptive words that seem nearly synonymous in the nature of positive meaning when describing the character of God. The combination of the three is used in many other places in the Bible (see Exo. 34:6; Psalm 86:5, 15; 103:8; 145:8; Num. 14:18; Joel 2:13), and has been called an ancient liturgical formula because of t he fact (Lemke, 358). Although the positive nature of the words seems to focus on the goal of one certain thing, they definitely all have their own place.   Loving-kindness Loving-kindness, Hebrew: ‘ khesed ’, can be well understood by the translations that interpreters chose to use in its place. Such as, “In its preference for ‘mercy’ the KJV was obviously influenced by the Septuagint (lxx) which in 168 instances renders khesed as ‘mercy’ or ‘compassion’ (Gk. eleos)” (Gammie, 581). By this, one can understand why one would label God as having abundance in loving-kindness. For m...

            The prologue in the book of Jonah begins with an introduction of the protagonist, who is Jonah himself, and continues to prepare the reader for the rest of the narrative with vital information. This can be found in verses 1:1-3.             T he plot is the order from God to Jonah to preach to the people of Nineveh, Jonah refuses, and eventually is presented with a problem. As the plot thickens, in the end of chapter one Jonah is swallowed by a great fish. This could possibly be the beginning of a sub-plot since the development of the main character changes in a dramatic way.             The characters are Jonah, God, the sailors and the people of Nineveh. Jonah in this story is the protagonist since he is introduced as the main character of the story that is presented with a problem. Jonah’s char...