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Dec 14, 2011 01:50

[The voice over the wrist communicators is quiet, calm... almost detached.]And they said every one to his fellow, Come and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah ( Read more... )

jonathan hollom | pastor

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[voice] greenstark December 15 2011, 01:25:23 UTC

What is that?

[voice] accusedjonah December 15 2011, 01:27:19 UTC

...It's from the Bible. The... the Holy Book, Word of God, Scripture. Where I'm from. [For there are people who don't know it.]

[voice] greenstark December 15 2011, 01:31:42 UTC

Which of the gods was it written of?

[voice] accusedjonah December 15 2011, 01:38:06 UTC

The Christian God. Singular. The only God... of the Christian faith. [He remembers to add the last four words.]

[voice] greenstark December 15 2011, 02:34:13 UTC

Oh. Is that the god of this place, or from where you are from?

Re: [voice] accusedjonah December 15 2011, 02:36:27 UTC

Where I am from. ...Though I believe it is the same God of this land, if we truly are where we have been told.

[voice] greenstark December 15 2011, 17:08:08 UTC

[A brief silence, as he considers that.]

It sounds more like a story than anything else. Does Jonah drown?

[voice] accusedjonah December 16 2011, 02:31:25 UTC

...No. God summons a great fish to swallow him. Until he repents for having defied God's order to go to a town and preach.

[voice] greenstark December 16 2011, 04:26:53 UTC

And then he dies?

[voice] accusedjonah December 16 2011, 04:40:20 UTC

[...So much talk of death. Yet it was appropriate, Hollom supposed. Jonah was a prophet chosen by God. Men considered Jonahs... weren't.]

After fulfilling his purpose, yes.

[voice] greenstark December 16 2011, 19:13:25 UTC

Then his only purpose was to preach? That seems unfair. Wasn't there another town, where he might preach?

[voice] accusedjonah December 16 2011, 20:14:04 UTC

God gave His command. It is not for men to argue or negotiate. He wished the Word brought to that city, and Jonah defied Him. Angered him.

[voice] greenstark December 16 2011, 23:00:25 UTC

But then he went, afterwards. The whale ate him, and then he went to the place he was meant to go to, and did as he was told. Why would he be punished twice?

[voice] accusedjonah December 17 2011, 07:48:28 UTC

I... I'm sorry. I was unclear. He died... because he was only mortal. And all men die.

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