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But the passage does not say, before he was in the womb, rather, before he was formed in the womb.

And if you've been following along, God's purpose was served. God was going to overthrow them in forty days. If he did so, his purpose would have been served. Nineveh repented so God repented and did not do what he said he was going to do. That's grace. His purpose was served.

Agreed, and God did not do what he said he was going to do.

God would later use what happened to Jonah as a type of Jesus Christ. "As Jonah...so shall the son of man be."

Read the passage again. They repented in hopes of changing the mind of God. It might work. It's our only chance. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can...

Agreed, if God didn't want to show grace to a fallen world, he wouldn't have given us his word to heed. Man has a choice, always had a choice to heed God's word (if/then statements all throughout).

It all goes back to God's promise to preserve the seed line of Genesis 3:15. Satan was determined to eliminate the seed by any means, mostly by destruction. Nineveh was Israel's enemy and had violence in their heart. As God did many times protecting his called out people (which contained the...

Yes, he knew Jeremiah in the womb, before he was formed, as a small undeveloped fetus/child. Your point? This is not an example of Galatians 4. We are talking about salvation and becoming a son of God.

You forget that God has other attributes, like grace. When man makes a decision to heed God's word, God shows grace. God no longer needed to destroy Nineveh because they repented at the preaching of his word. See Hezekiah for another plain example. Because Hezekiah cried out to the Lord, the...

The story of Jonah and Nineveh debunks Calvinism big time. That's why I brought it up. Blessings.

An eight-word sermon was the preaching God told Jonah to preach. This is clear. 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of...

But there was no "or else." The message was clear, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." Please do not add to scripture. Change your theology to align with scripture.

You make God out to be a liar. God does not lie to bring about repentance. I know it goes against your theology, but... "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."

Scripture is reconciled. God did not lie. God repented from the evil that he said he would do unto them. God showed them grace only because they believed his word and repented. That is who God is. For the sinner faced with the gospel of Jesus Christ, that sinner will be condemned if they don't...

There was no condition stated. To add a condition is to add to scripture. God did not lie. He had every intention of overthrowing Nineveh in forty days. That is what scripture states. To fit your catholic theology, you have to add to the clear reading of scripture.

You shouldn't hope. I'm either chosen to come to that truth, or God has chosen for me not to come to that truth. lol

This viewpoint makes God a liar. He stated that he would overthrow Nineveh in forty days. Did God lie? Did God have every intention of overthrowing Nineveh in forty days? The last verse in chapter 3 tells us, "and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did...

Lol, nice try. The biblical word "overthrow" means to destroy. Sodom and Gomorrah were cities overthrown by God.

Not in Jonah nor Matthew, only in the Catholic doctrine of Calvin.