Since God repeatedly warned the Jews not to intermarry with people of other religions, and even ordered them to drive other nations out of the promised land, some readers conclude that the Old Testament i racially narrow-minded. They say the New Testament gives the first indication that God cares for non-Jewish people. The book of Jonah contradicts view , it shows instead, that God wanted to use Jews like Jonah as agents of his concern. They would preach doom but always with the people that the warning would lead to repentance. Jonah needed to develop an attitude like Gods toward his enemies, Insistently, God led Jonah to this understanding of his own mind and heart. The book of Jonah is a story of a miraculous change in Nineveh; but even more a story of miraculous change of Jonah
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 11:51:39 +0000
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