You add to the book of Jonah to fit your theology. I’m not willing to do that. Overthrow means to destroy. Your attempt was weak to define overthrow. I’m trying to let the Scripture be honest. Too many times man defines who God must be and then places God in our definition. That must not be so.
Then the sailors said to each other, “Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity.”
They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
(Jonah 1:7)
They cast lots and the lot fell on Jonah.
(Jonah 1:7)
are we supposed to read this and think, wow lucky coincidence! that lot could have fallen on anyone?why did the sailors cast lots? - that is, why did they do it trusting that they would find out the truth by doing so?
seeing that they believed God both could & would control the outcome of seemingly random events like lot-casting, what kind of theism did they believe?
when they cast Jonah into the sea, were they changing God's designs or fulfilling His will? was God's intention to destroy the ship and everyone on it? did God know whether they would all perish or whether Jonah would wind up in the fish He had prepared for him? ((v.17)) - how long had this fish been in preparation? 30 seconds? 5 minutes? half an hour? how old was the fish? how many generations of fishes were influential in this fish being exactly the fish it was in exactly the place it was? what kind of fish is moving about near the surface during a raging storm? is that normal?
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