Jonah is an interesting book in the Bible, and it is an incredible story that can be hard to accept with human reason, and requires the reader to accept it because it is in the Bible, and because Jesus acknowledged it as real historical fact himself (Matthew 12:38-42, Luke 11:29-36). Third, it misses the point as to what the entire story of Jonah was about, and even why Jonah was swallowed by a big fish. Second, it seems like a complete confusion of law and gospel. My problem with this is: first, it seems like an incomplete telling of the story of Jonah (there is more to the story than Jonah disobeying God and getting swallowed by a big fish for 3 days and then getting spit back out after). The song has a catchy tune, derived from the Sailor’s Hornpipe with a chorus that starts off with “Jonah, Jonah, did not obey Got immediately Jonah, Jonah, down in the depths of the deep blue sea.” The lyrics go about talking about how Jonah didn’t do what God told him to do, so he got punished, with strong emphasis that the listener should do what God wants or else. Something that has been bothering me for a little bit, and I’ve talked with my loving wife about, is the lyrics to a song that my little girl likes, called “Jonah”, by a published Christian children’s music artist from Bob Jones called “Patch the Pirate”.
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