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DevsChum posted...

I find it far more difficult to believe that the book of Jonah is written based on his own testamony than to believe a dag gadol swallowed him and puked him up, tbh.

It's pretty unflattering. It paints Jonah as a petty, self-righteous ingrate who insists God is a jerk for not being evil and insults God with his own words on being loving and forgiving, and even ends when God asks him a question he can't answer, which serves as the moral of the story.

It would be like seeing one of those moderation complaint topics that says "so I blatantly broke the ToU, disrespected the mods in the dispute, then whined about times when people I don't like have gotten their moderations overturned, and finally they pointed me to the exact spot in the ToU that describes the rule I broke and they were totally right."

This is the case with most books in the bible.

Moses writes himself as a coward who didn't want to go save his people and who got upset and got punished for it.

The apostles in the NT are constantly shown as not understanding Jesus and being unbelieiving and this isn't even taking into account when Peter denied Jesus and the other apostles hid during the crucifixion.
Like Jesus says "i gotta die" and Peter goes "no, shut up" and Jesus calls Peter Satan.

Quite unflattering.