Oh no!
By AnnoyedandAutistic - 01/06/2017 02:00
By AnnoyedandAutistic - 01/06/2017 02:00
By JOTA - 07/10/2020 04:02 - New Zealand
By inchetogb - 15/01/2011 04:24 - United States
By Anonymous - 02/11/2015 19:05 - United States - Rogers
By Anonymous - 30/07/2011 02:10 - United States
By Anonymous - 18/02/2013 07:09 - United States - Owensboro
By leigh2812 - 05/01/2010 22:03 - France
By Grandzilla - 09/09/2016 04:10 - France - Ablancourt
By mandygeegoesnom - 29/02/2012 05:30 - United States
By Anonymous - 11/08/2024 09:00 - United States
By Anonymous - 25/06/2011 20:39 - Switzerland
guess you wont be having your wedding at their church
He's certainly not wrong.
Oh, I don't know. Penguins and seals are considerably larger than grapefruits and Orca have no trouble swallowing those. And whale-sharks are pretty big with giant mouths...
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Show it anywayExcept if the story as the Grandmother was told it says whale, a whale being able to swallow a person IS myth. Bad translations don't mean that a myth isn't a myth.
That doesn't really change anything though because if whale should've been translated as fish, then you're saying it should be 'Jonah got eaten by a fish'... which is quite implausible.
Well, I can't say YDI, but I don't think this is an FYL either. Just kinda awkward.
You absolutely deserve this if you knew his beliefs as well as theirs. His dismissal of their faith is surely not going to win him any points.
I don't think OP deserves it at all, unless she didn't warn her bf before hand. She's not responsible for his actions, especially if he knew they were religious and he didn't care.
most Christians have common sense and know that many of the stories in the Bible are myths made up to get a certain point across...
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
To me, the funniest part is that the boyfriend is simply wrong. What he said might suit blue whales, but I highly doubt e.g. killer whales bite grape-sized pieces off of their prey.
But killer whales (proper name: orca) are technically dolphins, not whales.
While it's not true for all whales Orca's are dolphins, not whales. There's no whale that could swallow a person or a boat whole.
Either way, in the original language the Bible was written the word means fish, not whale. A big fish swallowed Jonah. Not a whale. Also, we don't know what kinds of fish they had around back then, plus God can do whatever he wants and can make anything possible. That's the whole reason behind faith, trusting something you can't see and believing in His miracles. Most christians do not "know these stories are made up to get a point across". The Bible is Gods word and everything in it is true. If you're a Christian you believe that. If you're not a Christian then yeah, I see how it's hard to believe if you want science to back up everything.
"we dont know what kind if fish they had back then" that shows how stupid you are if you think we dont know what kind of fish were around about 2000 years ago (i assume that story took place around jesus and everything)
The bible isn’t God’s word, it’s a bunch of stories written by other men, about events that may or may not have happened exactly as recorded. And the bible as it stands today, is not the true and original book. It has been doctored and censored countless times over the years to suit what ever political or religious agenda the person changing it, has.
Just point out that the bible says fish, not whale. Then google "giant catfish". That should keep everyone happy.
LOL...almost all the comments are debating whether or not it was a fish or a whale. Apparently the rest of the story....a man surviving being in the belly of the whale ( fish,orca,whatever) for any real length of time and talking to a "supreme being" who miraculously saves him is completely plausible. :'D
Well, the main reason that's a point of contention is because if it is a whale, there are zero factual cases of a full grown human being swallowed alive- which makes the rest of the myth completely moot. And in the ridiculously unlikely chance that the only whale capable of swallowing something of that size- a sperm whale swallowing a human- the human would be crushed almost immediately once they reached the stomach due to the whale's anatomy.
Keywords
He's certainly not wrong.
guess you wont be having your wedding at their church