Jonah Contradictions: Bible Study by Atheists

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[00:01:34] Do you know what we're doing today?

[00:01:36] Well, we are, uh, we're doing our contradictions episode.

[00:01:41] No, we're doing You're Always Wrong, followed by a pop quiz.

[00:01:46] Sometimes I'm right though.

[00:01:48] I mean...

[00:01:48] But that's not what this is about.

[00:01:50] That's not what this is about.

[00:01:51] Okay, alright.

[00:01:52] This is about how you're always wrong.

[00:01:53] Alright.

[00:01:54] Because, um, no matter which answer you pick, yes or no, yes or no, true or false, whatever,

[00:02:00] it doesn't matter because the Bible contradicts itself.

[00:02:04] Yeah.

[00:02:04] It's less about you being wrong and more like you, the reader.

[00:02:08] The Bible is wrong.

[00:02:09] The Bible is always wrong.

[00:02:11] Yeah.

[00:02:12] And the reader gets screwed.

[00:02:14] And I get an opportunity to make fun of you and say that you're always wrong.

[00:02:18] Right.

[00:02:18] That's what this is about.

[00:02:19] That's right.

[00:02:20] That's right.

[00:02:47] That's right.

[00:02:48] That's great for everyone.

[00:02:49] I know, right?

[00:02:49] Yeah.

[00:02:50] Uh-huh.

[00:02:51] Alright, are you ready to get into this?

[00:02:52] Sure as fuck am.

[00:02:53] Let's do this.

[00:02:54] Okie dokie.

[00:03:01] Alright, let's get into this contradictions thing.

[00:03:04] Okay.

[00:03:04] Um, it's gonna be really short.

[00:03:07] Because listen.

[00:03:08] Not a lot of contradictions, huh?

[00:03:09] No.

[00:03:09] There were four questions and two of them are ones we've covered ad nauseum.

[00:03:15] And those were, does God know and see all?

[00:03:17] Yes and no and yes and no and yes and no depends.

[00:03:20] Right.

[00:03:20] Um, I'm not even getting into it.

[00:03:22] Yeah.

[00:03:22] Yeah.

[00:03:23] Yeah.

[00:03:23] Another one was, does God repent?

[00:03:24] Yes and no and maybe.

[00:03:26] Yes and no and maybe.

[00:03:27] Yes and no and maybe.

[00:03:27] It depends on the word repent.

[00:03:29] Like some Christians don't even think that that's what the word is actually translated to mean.

[00:03:36] Sure.

[00:03:37] And it says, does God repent of this or does he just fucking regret it?

[00:03:40] No, no.

[00:03:41] You know, that's where you get into a lot of the like back and forth.

[00:03:43] Yeah.

[00:03:43] It's like, well, this doesn't translate here and this doesn't translate there.

[00:03:46] But yet, but yet, they, you know, like, it depends on who you're talking to on any given day.

[00:03:52] And that's why this gets so frustrating is that the type of Christian you're talking to and the exact words and translation that they accept changes from person to person.

[00:04:05] Well, it does.

[00:04:06] And also, we, having done this enough, have even changed what we decided is a good enough question to be included in our, um, does this count?

[00:04:17] Contradictions.

[00:04:18] Yeah.

[00:04:18] And we've decided that those two questions are old and stupid and we don't want to answer them anymore.

[00:04:24] Well, because we've done it a million times.

[00:04:25] Yeah.

[00:04:25] Right.

[00:04:25] So yes and no.

[00:04:26] Right.

[00:04:26] Okay.

[00:04:28] The next one is contradicted within the book itself.

[00:04:34] Okay.

[00:04:35] Who cast Jonah into the sea?

[00:04:36] Was it the sailors or was it God?

[00:04:39] Hmm.

[00:04:39] I would have gone with the sailors.

[00:04:42] Right?

[00:04:42] Yeah.

[00:04:43] According to chapter one, verse 15.

[00:04:46] So they look up Jonah and cast him forth into the sea.

[00:04:49] Right.

[00:04:50] Okay.

[00:04:50] Yeah.

[00:04:50] So that's what happened.

[00:04:51] But guess what?

[00:04:52] I'm apparently wrong.

[00:04:54] You're always wrong.

[00:04:55] You're always wrong.

[00:04:56] Because in chapter two, verse three, it says, for thou hast cast me into the deep.

[00:05:01] Jonah speaking to God.

[00:05:02] So he's saying, you God cast me into the deep in the midst of the seas.

[00:05:06] But then why were those sailors repenting to God?

[00:05:08] See, here's the thing.

[00:05:10] I think this is another case of a stupid question, quite honestly.

[00:05:13] Right.

[00:05:13] Because clearly it was the sailors who physically did it.

[00:05:18] Right.

[00:05:18] And what I think is that Jonah is talking to God saying, through those, through the tools

[00:05:26] of those guys, you had me cast into them.

[00:05:30] Right.

[00:05:30] So I'm like, is that a contradiction?

[00:05:32] Not so much.

[00:05:33] And that's why I'm like, okay, here we go.

[00:05:36] Right.

[00:05:36] And then.

[00:05:37] I mean, to be fair.

[00:05:38] Right.

[00:05:38] I'm trying to be fair to the Bible.

[00:05:42] Right.

[00:05:42] Which I do regret.

[00:05:44] But one must always say that I tried to be objective for objectivity's sake.

[00:05:51] Sure.

[00:05:52] No, I think that that's important that we at least allow for it to, you know, we, we, we're

[00:05:58] not here to just straight bash the Bible.

[00:06:01] That's not what we're doing.

[00:06:02] There are enough contradictions without being stupid about it.

[00:06:06] And there's enough ugly shit in here, you know?

[00:06:08] Yeah.

[00:06:08] Like it takes care of itself with regard to the bad crap in the Bible.

[00:06:12] We don't have to argue about whether it was the sailors or God.

[00:06:16] Right.

[00:06:16] It, it was clearly the sailors physically did it.

[00:06:19] But this is a contradiction in, in some realms and some discussions.

[00:06:24] I guess.

[00:06:24] Sure.

[00:06:25] I, I don't know that it's really a contradiction.

[00:06:27] I've never heard anybody talk about it, but I don't talk to Christians about it a lot.

[00:06:30] Well, there's so many contradictions.

[00:06:31] Not many people talk about many of them.

[00:06:33] So here, here's the thing.

[00:06:34] I think that atheists would consider that a contradiction more than Christians would.

[00:06:41] Sure.

[00:06:41] And I'm not here for that because it's, that's bullshit.

[00:06:44] I'm sorry.

[00:06:45] That's bullshit.

[00:06:45] I agree.

[00:06:46] I agree.

[00:06:46] And I'm not going to team up with the atheists just for the sake of being on the atheist team,

[00:06:51] because that's not how I fucking roll.

[00:06:53] Right.

[00:06:54] You know?

[00:06:54] No, I agree.

[00:06:55] Obviously not trying to cast dispersions on atheists, being one myself.

[00:06:59] No, I think that, I think that the atheist community in general, right, is, is a little predisposed

[00:07:06] to, you know, being a bit more harsh on certain things than they need to be sometimes.

[00:07:13] And this would be, this would be one of those.

[00:07:16] Not always.

[00:07:16] Well, because it was an atheist who put these questions together, right?

[00:07:19] Sure.

[00:07:19] And so I'm like, is that really a contradiction, Mr. Friend atheist?

[00:07:26] I don't believe so.

[00:07:28] No.

[00:07:28] And we'll agree on a 99 points, but not that one.

[00:07:31] Sure.

[00:07:31] Exactly.

[00:07:31] You know?

[00:07:31] That's, that's all I'm saying.

[00:07:33] Yeah.

[00:07:33] So, um, this last one, I'm going to include it even though the contradiction does not appear

[00:07:40] until the new Testament.

[00:07:41] Oh.

[00:07:43] Yeah.

[00:07:43] Okay.

[00:07:43] We're making an exception for this one.

[00:07:45] Okay.

[00:07:46] Because the question is, was Jonah swallowed by a fish or a whale?

[00:07:50] And we know the fucking answer.

[00:07:52] It's a fish.

[00:07:53] Right?

[00:07:53] Yeah.

[00:07:53] It was a big fish.

[00:07:55] According to Jonah chapter one, verse 17.

[00:07:58] Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.

[00:08:01] Yeah.

[00:08:02] Right.

[00:08:02] And I mean, there was an argument about, is it a fish?

[00:08:04] Well, they called it a whale, but he actually never called it a whale.

[00:08:08] So it was a fish.

[00:08:09] Right?

[00:08:10] Yeah.

[00:08:11] But guess what?

[00:08:12] What?

[00:08:12] We are always wrong.

[00:08:14] Are we now?

[00:08:15] Because in Matthew, which is the first book of the New Testament, Matthew chapter 12, verse

[00:08:22] 40 says, for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly.

[00:08:28] Are you sure that that's in all translations though?

[00:08:31] According to the place where I got this contradiction from.

[00:08:37] Okay.

[00:08:37] Um, I, I just wondered because I thought that maybe it was just the new, the King James version.

[00:08:43] So I wasn't sure whether or not that was going to be, you know.

[00:08:47] Right.

[00:08:48] And I thought that it never actually said the whale anywhere in the Bible is what I had

[00:08:53] read.

[00:08:53] So I don't know.

[00:08:55] Okay.

[00:08:56] But according to the source that I used for these questions, um, Matthew refers to the

[00:09:03] fish as a whale.

[00:09:04] Okay.

[00:09:05] So I, I don't know.

[00:09:06] You can call me out on that.

[00:09:07] Honestly, I don't really fucking care.

[00:09:09] I'm not defending it one way or the other.

[00:09:11] All of these were a stretch.

[00:09:12] I only included it because I didn't have one to include.

[00:09:15] Got it.

[00:09:16] Got it.

[00:09:17] Okay.

[00:09:17] So do you care?

[00:09:19] No, I mean, not, not, not necessarily, but I mean, you know, it, I don't know.

[00:09:24] I mean, I would be curious to dig into that a little bit more maybe when we get to Matthew.

[00:09:27] Yeah.

[00:09:27] And that's another thing.

[00:09:29] Um, when we get to Matthew, we're going to have more questions and I didn't want to

[00:09:35] delve too much into translations and stuff with regard to a book we haven't even entered

[00:09:41] yet.

[00:09:42] Right.

[00:09:42] Right.

[00:09:43] Particularly in a, a big part of the book that we haven't entered yet.

[00:09:48] Yeah.

[00:09:48] Like the entire, we're done with being Jewish now part of the book.

[00:09:53] So I w I was just like, whatever.

[00:09:55] Right.

[00:09:56] So, okay.

[00:09:56] So that is the, you're always wrong.

[00:09:59] Okay.

[00:10:00] But having said that, I have a pop quiz for you.

[00:10:03] Do you now?

[00:10:04] I do.

[00:10:04] Okay.

[00:10:04] I got 10 out of 13.

[00:10:07] Okay.

[00:10:07] Beat me.

[00:10:08] I, we're going to find out, aren't we?

[00:10:09] Yeah.

[00:10:10] Um, this was a little bit harder than I thought.

[00:10:13] So buckle up friends.

[00:10:15] I'm buckling up.

[00:10:16] All right.

[00:10:16] Number one, what was the message of Jonah to the people of Nineveh?

[00:10:21] And I'll read you the four choices and then I'll repeat it for our friends listening at

[00:10:25] home who would like to play along.

[00:10:26] Sure.

[00:10:27] Okay.

[00:10:27] Okay.

[00:10:28] Choices are God wants you to repent in 40 days.

[00:10:32] Nineveh shall be overthrown the creation story or the narration of his journeys to the country.

[00:10:39] Okay.

[00:10:40] This was one of the easier ones.

[00:10:42] Yeah.

[00:10:42] Sure.

[00:10:42] But the question again is what was the message of Jonah to the people of Nineveh?

[00:10:47] God wants you to repent in 40 days.

[00:10:51] Nineveh shall be overthrown the creation story or the narration of his journeys to the country.

[00:10:59] I think that it is, I don't know, it's one of two.

[00:11:05] I think that it's the, they're going to be overthrown in 40 days.

[00:11:07] Yeah.

[00:11:08] Okay.

[00:11:08] That is the one you want to go with.

[00:11:10] Got it.

[00:11:10] The other one would be God wants you to repent.

[00:11:12] Right.

[00:11:12] Um, I would say that that is a correct answer, but I don't think it's the correctest.

[00:11:17] Okay.

[00:11:18] I already took this quiz, so I know the one that they want and that is the one they want.

[00:11:22] Got it.

[00:11:23] Cause I got that one right.

[00:11:24] Yeah.

[00:11:24] Okay.

[00:11:24] Okay.

[00:11:25] Yeah.

[00:11:25] Number two, this one I was like, I don't fucking know how many persons are there in the great

[00:11:31] city of Nineveh?

[00:11:32] Nineveh.

[00:11:32] Oh, I know this one.

[00:11:33] Here's your choices.

[00:11:34] Okay.

[00:11:34] Oh, do you know it without any?

[00:11:36] Pretty sure.

[00:11:36] Go ahead.

[00:11:37] We're letting them play along.

[00:11:38] Oh yeah.

[00:11:39] Yeah.

[00:11:39] Okay.

[00:11:39] Okay.

[00:11:39] So yeah.

[00:11:40] Yeah.

[00:11:41] Yeah.

[00:11:41] 10,000 people.

[00:11:42] 10,000 people.

[00:11:43] 24,000 people.

[00:11:44] Less than 50,000 people or more than 120,000 people.

[00:11:49] And again, the question is how many people are there in the great city of Nineveh?

[00:11:54] 10,000.

[00:11:56] 24,000.

[00:11:57] 10,000.

[00:11:58] Less than 50,000 or more than 120,000.

[00:12:01] Pretty certain that it's going to be more than 120,000.

[00:12:05] You're going to be correct on that.

[00:12:06] Yeah.

[00:12:06] And I was like, I have no fucking idea.

[00:12:09] I number, you know, numbers don't stick in the stupid head, the stupid potato head.

[00:12:14] All right.

[00:12:15] Number three.

[00:12:16] How big was the city that Jonah was sent to?

[00:12:19] Was it seven hours journey wide?

[00:12:23] Three days journey wide.

[00:12:25] Ten days journey wide.

[00:12:27] Or 40 days journey wide.

[00:12:29] And I'll play that again.

[00:12:30] Sure.

[00:12:30] Yeah.

[00:12:31] This was one of the easier ones that I got right.

[00:12:33] Right.

[00:12:33] Seven hours journey wide.

[00:12:35] How big was the city that Jonah was sent to?

[00:12:37] Seven hours journey wide.

[00:12:38] Three days journey wide.

[00:12:40] 10 days journey wide.

[00:12:42] Or 40 days journey wide.

[00:12:45] Three days.

[00:12:45] Exactly.

[00:12:46] Yep.

[00:12:47] You're doing good.

[00:12:48] Okay.

[00:12:49] Number four.

[00:12:51] According to Jonah, what belongs to the Lord?

[00:12:54] I had to guess on this and I got it wrong.

[00:12:56] Because I don't fucking know.

[00:12:58] Okay.

[00:12:58] Holiness, righteousness, humility, or salvation.

[00:13:02] According to Jonah, what belongs to the Lord?

[00:13:06] Holiness, righteousness, humility, or salvation.

[00:13:11] Hmm.

[00:13:12] Hmm.

[00:13:13] Hmm.

[00:13:15] Um, uh, who, um, I'm going to go with salvation.

[00:13:20] That's what I went with.

[00:13:21] I think that's wrong.

[00:13:22] Unless this is the one that I guessed and got right.

[00:13:24] Okay.

[00:13:25] Accidentally.

[00:13:26] Yeah.

[00:13:26] But I think that's wrong.

[00:13:27] But I don't know.

[00:13:28] Any, any one of those could have.

[00:13:29] Right?

[00:13:30] They all belong to the Lord.

[00:13:31] But what is the answer that you want?

[00:13:33] All right.

[00:13:34] All right.

[00:13:34] Number five.

[00:13:35] How did the inhabitants of the city react to Jonah's warning?

[00:13:39] This was an easy one.

[00:13:40] I think I'll probably know this one, yeah.

[00:13:41] They ignored it.

[00:13:43] They mocked it.

[00:13:43] They did not believe it.

[00:13:45] They repented.

[00:13:46] Did we even need to repeat that one?

[00:13:48] I'm gonna for our friends listening at home who want to play along.

[00:13:51] Sure, sure.

[00:13:52] How did the inhabitants of the city react to Jonah's warning?

[00:13:56] They ignored it.

[00:13:57] They mocked it.

[00:13:58] They did not believe.

[00:13:59] Or they repented.

[00:14:00] They repented.

[00:14:01] They sure as fuck did.

[00:14:02] Yeah, they did.

[00:14:03] All right.

[00:14:03] Number six.

[00:14:05] What was the first command given to Jonah by God?

[00:14:09] Okay.

[00:14:10] Ready?

[00:14:10] I think I know this one too.

[00:14:11] Yeah.

[00:14:12] Offer sacrifice, buy a ship in Tarshish, go to Nineveh, or forge a chain.

[00:14:18] And here we will ask again.

[00:14:20] Yep.

[00:14:21] What was the first command given to Jonah by God?

[00:14:24] Offer sacrifice, buy a ship in Tarshish, go to Nineveh, or forge a chain.

[00:14:31] And it's gonna be go to Nineveh.

[00:14:33] I believe that is correct.

[00:14:34] Yeah.

[00:14:34] And then he ran the fuck away.

[00:14:36] Yep.

[00:14:36] The opposite direction to Tarshish.

[00:14:38] Right.

[00:14:38] Yep.

[00:14:39] Number seven.

[00:14:41] Number seven.

[00:14:42] Sorry.

[00:14:43] What did those who pay...

[00:14:46] Let me reread that.

[00:14:48] Okay.

[00:14:48] What did those who pay regard to vain idols forsake according to Jonah?

[00:14:56] Hope of steadfast love, sacrifice to God, place of refuge, or the true God?

[00:15:04] What did those who pay regard to vain idols forsake according to Jonah?

[00:15:12] Hope of steadfast love, sacrifice to God, place of refuge, or the true God?

[00:15:19] I will have to go with the true God.

[00:15:22] Sure.

[00:15:22] I have no idea.

[00:15:23] Because they're worshiping idols who aren't the true God, right?

[00:15:26] That's what I would think.

[00:15:27] What the fuck do I know?

[00:15:29] Number eight.

[00:15:30] What did the Lord appoint to attack the plant over which...

[00:15:34] Which was over...

[00:15:36] Okay.

[00:15:36] Let me read that again.

[00:15:37] You know the answer.

[00:15:38] Yeah, I do.

[00:15:39] What did the Lord appoint to attack the plant which was over Jonah?

[00:15:44] Was it wind, drought, worm, or flood?

[00:15:48] What did the Lord appoint to attack the plant which was over Jonah?

[00:15:55] Wind, drought, worm, or flood?

[00:15:58] Worm.

[00:15:59] Of course.

[00:16:00] Yeah.

[00:16:01] Right.

[00:16:01] Number nine.

[00:16:02] How did Jonah describe the God he feared?

[00:16:06] Okay.

[00:16:06] This one was hard to me.

[00:16:08] I know how I describe him.

[00:16:10] I know how I describe him too.

[00:16:11] Ready?

[00:16:12] Let's see if we can go.

[00:16:12] One, two, three, go.

[00:16:13] Dick.

[00:16:13] He's a dick.

[00:16:14] Yeah.

[00:16:16] Okay.

[00:16:17] Okay.

[00:16:17] So your choices are creator of heaven and earth, master of the universe, the one who made the

[00:16:25] sea and the dry land, or the God of Israel.

[00:16:27] Let's read those again.

[00:16:29] Okay.

[00:16:29] How did Jonah describe the God he feared?

[00:16:32] He's a dick.

[00:16:34] No.

[00:16:34] Creator of heaven and earth, master of the universe like He-Man, the one who made the sea and the

[00:16:40] dry land, or the God of Israel.

[00:16:44] I am going to go with the one who made the sea and the dry land.

[00:16:47] I think that's the one I went with, but I don't remember if it was right.

[00:16:50] And I only picked that not because I know the answer, but because this story involved

[00:16:55] both the sea and the dry land.

[00:16:57] Right?

[00:16:57] That's...

[00:16:57] So I figured maybe there's some sort of tie in.

[00:16:59] That's what I wondered.

[00:17:01] Yeah.

[00:17:01] But I don't know.

[00:17:02] All right.

[00:17:02] Number 10.

[00:17:03] After Jonah was hurled into the sea, what was the men's reaction to the Lord after the

[00:17:09] sea ceased from its raging?

[00:17:13] Fear exceedingly, greatly amazed, skeptical, or indifferent?

[00:17:29] They feared the Lord exceedingly.

[00:17:37] Hey, I think I picked greatly amazed.

[00:17:40] Really?

[00:17:40] Yeah.

[00:17:41] I couldn't.

[00:17:41] I knew it was one of those.

[00:17:42] It was either feared exceedingly or greatly amazed.

[00:17:45] They were repenting.

[00:17:47] Like, they were, like, scared that they had, you know.

[00:17:49] Totally right.

[00:17:49] Tossed a prophet into the fucking ocean.

[00:17:51] I don't fucking know.

[00:17:52] If I thought I had tossed a prophet into the ocean, I'd probably be scared, too, if I thought

[00:17:55] God really existed.

[00:17:56] Right.

[00:17:57] I'd be like, goddamn.

[00:17:58] I better fucking, you know, do something.

[00:18:01] Kill a goat.

[00:18:02] I guess, yeah.

[00:18:03] Number 11.

[00:18:04] Which city did Jonah flee towards to escape from the presence of the Lord?

[00:18:09] You gave this answer away already.

[00:18:10] I didn't even remember that it was one of the questions.

[00:18:12] Oopsie.

[00:18:15] Tarshish, Damascus, Ikron, or Ashkelon?

[00:18:18] Which city did Jonah flee towards to escape from the presence of the Lord?

[00:18:25] Tarshish, Damascus, Ikron, or Ashkelon?

[00:18:28] Tarshish.

[00:18:29] Would you have remembered that had I not said it?

[00:18:30] I probably would have, actually, yeah.

[00:18:32] Yeah.

[00:18:33] I don't know.

[00:18:34] That one just stuck in my head.

[00:18:35] Because the Tarshish kind of sticks out in my head as one of those, like, cities that

[00:18:39] were on the port type thing or whatever, so.

[00:18:42] Yeah.

[00:18:42] Well, it was supposed to be towards Spain, I believe.

[00:18:45] The end of the world.

[00:18:46] Yeah.

[00:18:46] Remember?

[00:18:47] Yeah.

[00:18:47] So, I don't know.

[00:18:48] Tarshish just sounds like it would be, like, on the end of the world and headed towards Spain.

[00:18:53] Sure.

[00:18:53] I don't know.

[00:18:54] Yeah.

[00:18:55] Number 12.

[00:18:56] Which part of the city of Nineveh did Jonah make a booth?

[00:19:01] And I was like.

[00:19:01] He made a booth?

[00:19:02] Yeah, I was like, he made a booth?

[00:19:03] I'm wondering if they mean, like, the tent thing that he made.

[00:19:06] Oh.

[00:19:06] Is that what they mean?

[00:19:07] Maybe.

[00:19:08] Yeah, I had no idea.

[00:19:09] Okay.

[00:19:09] All right.

[00:19:10] Was it west, east, north, or south?

[00:19:12] An awesome question again.

[00:19:14] Well, then, yeah.

[00:19:14] Okay.

[00:19:15] Which part of the city of Nineveh did Jonah make a booth?

[00:19:18] Was it west, east, north, or south?

[00:19:21] We're going to say tent here.

[00:19:23] Okay.

[00:19:23] Before I answer.

[00:19:24] Okay.

[00:19:24] And I'm going to say east.

[00:19:26] That's what I picked.

[00:19:27] Assuming that they mean tent.

[00:19:29] If that's the part that they're talking about.

[00:19:30] Because, like, there was never a point where they said booth in the reading that we did.

[00:19:34] Right.

[00:19:34] But oftentimes when you do these quizzes and stuff.

[00:19:36] They're using a different translation.

[00:19:38] Right.

[00:19:38] Yeah, yeah.

[00:19:38] And that changes things.

[00:19:40] Well, and it causes some difficulty for me answering some of this shit.

[00:19:42] Because I'm like, I don't recall them saying that.

[00:19:44] And sometimes I'm right.

[00:19:46] Yeah.

[00:19:46] I'm like, no, that was never said in our translation.

[00:19:49] Exactly.

[00:19:51] All right.

[00:19:51] Last one.

[00:19:52] Ready?

[00:19:52] Number 13.

[00:19:54] Whose son was Jonah?

[00:19:56] Do you remember the name without me?

[00:19:58] When you say it, I probably will know, but I can't recall off the top of my head.

[00:20:01] That's okay.

[00:20:01] We're going to name all four and then read it again.

[00:20:05] Hilkiah, Eliab, Amittai, or Eleazar.

[00:20:09] Number 13.

[00:20:10] Whose son was Jonah?

[00:20:14] Hilkiah, Eliab, Amittai, or Eleazar.

[00:20:20] What was the third one again?

[00:20:22] Amittai.

[00:20:23] I think it was Amittai.

[00:20:24] It was.

[00:20:25] It absolutely 100% was.

[00:20:27] I wanted to say the first one for some reason at first, but then you said Amittai and I

[00:20:31] was like, I think that's it.

[00:20:32] Yeah.

[00:20:33] That was it.

[00:20:33] So, yeah, it did take me a second to figure that one out.

[00:20:36] Yeah.

[00:20:36] But I think I got it.

[00:20:37] Yeah.

[00:20:37] Okay.

[00:20:38] All right.

[00:20:38] Let's go through these.

[00:20:40] How'd I do?

[00:20:40] How'd I do?

[00:20:40] Oh, you want to know your score before we go through them?

[00:20:42] Well, yeah.

[00:20:42] I want to know my score.

[00:20:43] All right.

[00:20:44] I think you only missed one.

[00:20:46] Really?

[00:20:47] Yeah.

[00:20:47] You answered all about one.

[00:20:49] Oh, yeah.

[00:20:50] All right.

[00:20:51] Asshole.

[00:20:52] I hate it when you do better than I do.

[00:20:55] All right.

[00:20:56] Number one, what was the message of Jonah to the people of Nineveh?

[00:20:59] In 40 days, Nineveh shall be overthrown.

[00:21:01] Yeah.

[00:21:02] Yeah.

[00:21:02] We both got that one right.

[00:21:03] Right.

[00:21:03] How many persons are there in the great city of Nineveh?

[00:21:07] I got this one wrong.

[00:21:08] You got it right.

[00:21:09] The answer is more than 120,000 persons.

[00:21:13] Yeah.

[00:21:13] Yeah.

[00:21:13] A bunch.

[00:21:14] Yeah.

[00:21:15] How big was the city that Jonah was sent to?

[00:21:18] Three days.

[00:21:19] Three days journey wide.

[00:21:20] Yeah.

[00:21:20] We both got that right.

[00:21:22] According to Jonah, what belongs to the Lord?

[00:21:25] Salvation.

[00:21:26] Oh, that was the correct answer?

[00:21:27] Mm-hmm.

[00:21:28] Okay.

[00:21:28] I got it right.

[00:21:29] And I don't remember if I got that right or not.

[00:21:31] Right.

[00:21:31] Honestly.

[00:21:32] I know I missed three.

[00:21:34] Three.

[00:21:35] Right.

[00:21:35] Yeah.

[00:21:36] Number five, how did the inhabitants of the city react to Jonah's warning?

[00:21:40] We got this right.

[00:21:41] What did they do?

[00:21:42] They capitulated.

[00:21:44] They repented.

[00:21:45] Yeah.

[00:21:45] They repented.

[00:21:46] Yeah.

[00:21:47] Number six, what was the first command given to Jonah by God?

[00:21:52] What was it?

[00:21:53] I don't remember, honestly.

[00:21:54] Go to Nineveh.

[00:21:55] Go to Nineveh.

[00:21:56] Yeah.

[00:21:56] I'm sorry.

[00:21:56] Yeah.

[00:21:56] You got it right.

[00:21:57] We both.

[00:21:58] It's late.

[00:21:58] And I'm trying to muddle through this.

[00:22:00] You're like, what?

[00:22:00] You just prompt me here.

[00:22:02] Come on.

[00:22:02] Just what?

[00:22:03] Just prompt me.

[00:22:04] I think we both got this one wrong.

[00:22:06] Number seven, what did those who pay regard to vain idols forsake, according to Jonah?

[00:22:12] I think we both picked the true God because that fucking makes sense.

[00:22:16] But the answer was hope of steadfast love.

[00:22:19] Hmm.

[00:22:20] Okay.

[00:22:20] Okay.

[00:22:21] Okay.

[00:22:21] Sure.

[00:22:21] Sure.

[00:22:22] Sure.

[00:22:23] Number eight, what did the Lord appoint to attack the plant which was over Jonah?

[00:22:28] A worm.

[00:22:29] Yep.

[00:22:29] A worm.

[00:22:30] We both got that right.

[00:22:32] How did Jonah describe the God he feared?

[00:22:35] The one who made the sea and the dry land.

[00:22:37] I didn't know that one for sure, but it just made the most sense to me.

[00:22:40] It just made the most sense.

[00:22:41] Yeah.

[00:22:41] Yeah.

[00:22:41] That's the one I guessed as well for the same reason.

[00:22:44] After Jonah was hurled into the sea, what was the men's reaction to the Lord after the

[00:22:49] sea ceased from its raging?

[00:22:51] Scared as fuck.

[00:22:52] Feared exceedingly.

[00:22:53] That is correct.

[00:22:55] Number 11, which city did Jonah flee towards to escape from the presence of the Lord?

[00:23:01] Tarshish.

[00:23:02] Tarshish.

[00:23:02] That is correct.

[00:23:03] We both got that one right.

[00:23:04] Well, I mean, you helped us all out there on that one.

[00:23:06] Yeah.

[00:23:06] Yeah.

[00:23:07] Yeah.

[00:23:07] Number 12, and this one we both got right.

[00:23:10] Which part of the city of Nineveh did Jonah make a booth?

[00:23:14] East.

[00:23:14] East.

[00:23:15] So it's the tent that they were talking about.

[00:23:16] Yeah.

[00:23:17] Because that's where he set the tent out to watch to see if something was going to happen

[00:23:21] to the city.

[00:23:22] Yeah.

[00:23:22] And he was facing the direction that the sun comes up, which is a big deal.

[00:23:26] Because we joked about the time that he was worshipping Ra or something.

[00:23:28] Yeah.

[00:23:28] You know?

[00:23:29] Yeah.

[00:23:29] I mean, it matters.

[00:23:30] It's a big deal to them.

[00:23:31] Yeah.

[00:23:32] Yeah.

[00:23:32] Number 13, whose son was Jonah?

[00:23:36] Amittai.

[00:23:36] We both got that right.

[00:23:38] Yep.

[00:23:38] Yep.

[00:23:38] All right.

[00:23:39] So you did better than I did.

[00:23:41] I missed three.

[00:23:43] You only missed one.

[00:23:45] And that's our quiz.

[00:23:47] Okay.

[00:23:48] And that's Jonah.

[00:23:48] That's Jonah, bitches.

[00:23:50] Yep.

[00:23:50] That was not, as things go, was not a bad story.

[00:23:54] No.

[00:23:55] No.

[00:23:55] And it had a lot of symbolism in it that I appreciated from a literary standpoint.

[00:24:00] Yeah.

[00:24:01] I like that kind of analysis.

[00:24:04] Right.

[00:24:04] That you can take into the better written stories.

[00:24:06] It was a little meatier than some of the other shit we've read.

[00:24:08] Yeah.

[00:24:08] You know, like as far as, I really appreciated it once we got into the Q&A, so like that

[00:24:13] was one of my favorite Q&As we've done.

[00:24:16] Me too.

[00:24:17] Because I didn't understand shit until we got to that point.

[00:24:19] Yeah.

[00:24:20] And then we got into that Q&A and I was like, oh my God, this is pretty fantastic actually.

[00:24:25] Like I understood why he ran away.

[00:24:27] Like, yeah, I wouldn't want to go either.

[00:24:29] But then when we understood, no, no, no, you think you know why he ran away.

[00:24:34] You don't know why he ran away.

[00:24:36] Right.

[00:24:36] Right.

[00:24:37] Right.

[00:24:37] Oh, and then at the end when it was, why was he so mad?

[00:24:40] Like we had no idea.

[00:24:42] It's really hard to like it without, because we've talked about how, where, you know, the

[00:24:46] people that wrote these initially, they assume you understand this context, right?

[00:24:51] Yes.

[00:24:52] Because, because these things were happening to them and around them and everything.

[00:24:55] Right.

[00:24:55] And they were, they were known stories in that land.

[00:24:58] Right.

[00:24:58] Yeah.

[00:24:59] But us over here, never having read the Bible, I don't understand off the top of my head

[00:25:04] that Nineveh is part of the Assyrian territory.

[00:25:07] Right.

[00:25:08] You know, I don't understand that that's enemy territory.

[00:25:09] Right.

[00:25:10] So it wasn't something that I picked up on at all.

[00:25:12] Well.

[00:25:13] And I'm sure there were people listening going, oh, these guys are fucking idiots.

[00:25:15] Oh, I'm sure.

[00:25:16] I'm sure.

[00:25:17] But to put it in terms of today, it's kind of like if we're like one time I was talking

[00:25:24] to my mom and I was trying to talk about the Proud Boys.

[00:25:28] Right.

[00:25:29] Right.

[00:25:29] My mom, even though she's MAGA, had no fucking idea what I was talking about.

[00:25:34] She'd never heard of the Proud Boys.

[00:25:35] And I'm like, you're MAGA.

[00:25:36] You're supposed to understand the Proud Boys.

[00:25:38] No, they wouldn't talk about them.

[00:25:40] That's, that's something that's a fringe thing.

[00:25:42] Like, so the right would never admit that to the right.

[00:25:44] Right.

[00:25:45] Because that's, that's a thing that happens because they are so far to the right.

[00:25:49] Yeah.

[00:25:50] And I'm like, your boy literally told these Nazi lovers to stand by and stand back and

[00:25:57] stand by.

[00:25:58] Like, that's the whole point of, of what that was about.

[00:26:01] And my mom's like, what are you talking about?

[00:26:03] What's a proud boy?

[00:26:04] And like, I had to explain, like, no, it's not a boy who is proud.

[00:26:08] It's a group.

[00:26:09] But like, you speak and you assume that the people around you understand the context of

[00:26:15] what you're talking about.

[00:26:17] Right.

[00:26:17] And this is like, my example was from like actual current times.

[00:26:23] Sure.

[00:26:24] And that's funny because this Jonah stuff is from thousands of years ago.

[00:26:29] So yeah.

[00:26:30] Like, if half the time your audience doesn't even know what the fuck you're talking about

[00:26:34] in the current day, you have to know that thousands of years later, we're not going

[00:26:38] to have a fucking clue.

[00:26:39] I think that's a good reason why most Christians don't really understand the Bible that they

[00:26:43] worship.

[00:26:44] Right.

[00:26:44] Yeah.

[00:26:44] This, this religion that they worship, they don't really understand what they are doing

[00:26:49] because why would you bother trying?

[00:26:52] Like, you have to, you have to learn so much to get that to the point where you are not

[00:27:00] ignorant about it, that you, you, it takes too much work.

[00:27:03] Right.

[00:27:03] So you just take people's, you know, word for it and be like, okay, yeah, that's, yeah,

[00:27:09] that's what it is.

[00:27:10] Yeah.

[00:27:10] So, because unless you actually read through everything yourself and do so much studying,

[00:27:16] like, where do you even start?

[00:27:17] And like with us, well, we just started at the beginning cause we don't know anything.

[00:27:21] I don't know what to tell you, Christian, who, you know, thinks, you know, some of it,

[00:27:25] I don't know where to tell you where to start.

[00:27:27] Right.

[00:27:28] Right.

[00:27:28] You know, you already think, you know, some of it, so some of it you're going to space

[00:27:32] out because you're like, yeah, yeah, I already know this part.

[00:27:34] Right.

[00:27:35] Or you're going to be like, um, what are you talking about?

[00:27:38] Skip to something I know.

[00:27:41] Right.

[00:27:42] All right.

[00:27:42] Well, that was, that's it for Jonah.

[00:27:45] That's it for Jonah.

[00:27:46] Congratulations to everybody.

[00:27:48] If you've been listening along with us and finishing up another book of the Bible,

[00:27:51] another book of the Bible is done, son.

[00:27:54] Yeah.

[00:27:55] And we're going to be moving on.

[00:27:56] Well, I got the weekly replay that'll be coming out.

[00:27:58] And then we're going to be moving on to Micah.

[00:28:01] Yep.

[00:28:01] And we'll be doing that probably Tuesday or Wednesday.

[00:28:05] I don't know.

[00:28:05] Well, soon.

[00:28:06] Very soon.

[00:28:06] I believe we're recording it Monday or Tuesday night, but I believe it's coming out Wednesday

[00:28:11] morning.

[00:28:11] Yeah, I think that's right.

[00:28:12] Okay.

[00:28:13] All right.

[00:28:13] Well, we'll see you guys then.

[00:28:14] Bye.