Bwian implied that men cannot live in the stomachs of whales! is this true?

Question

how many documented modern day cases in history have there been where men have been rescured or vomited from a whales stomach? i know of 1 in the last century. the same seemed to imply several others.

Answer 1

1) There is only one (1) species of whale that can swallow a man whole and that is the sperm whale. The large baleen whales surprisingly have a very narrow throat - only about wide enough to pass a large grapefruit.

2) The Guinness Book of Animal Records has an article on the subject and rejects any possibility of anyone surviving being swallowed by a whale for any length of time.

It's true that whales breathe air, but they do not breathe through their stomach. Nor do they swallow much air. To add to the problem, a sperm whale's stomach acid is pretty potent, and of course there is a lot of it.

The book also records the one case in which the body of a man who had been swallowed by a sperm whale was recovered (The whale was caught soon after, and the stomach excised), and he had died horribly.

So Bwian is absolutely right. It is not possible for a man to survive in the stomach of a whale.

However, there are no whales in the Mediterranean anyway, so the story of Jonah, if it is even meant to be taken literally, is obviously talking about a miracle.

Answer 2

not a whale

a great fish

a whale is a mammal

Answer 3

What if you take it too literally? I can think of several explanations if this is the case.

The most obvious is of course - that wasn't a whale, that was a submarine!

Answer 4

How many days was this man in your unlinked claim in the whale?

Jonah was claimed to be in the whale for 3 days......did the whale eat several crates of antacid before gulping down Jonah?

Perhaps Nineveh repented after seeing a half digested man call them to righteousness.

Or did Jonah pray that God stop time, like Joshua did in Joshua 10, and keep the earth from rotating and the stomach from digesting?

Answer 5

"The story is true.Whales breathe air you know."

They also have stomachs full of enzymes intended to disolve flesh.

"Third, nothing in the Bible has even been historically proven to have happened."

That certainly isn't true.

Answer 6

Thats why its a miracle.  Its something that shouldnt happen but did.  These men were in tune with the Holy Ghost.  It tells them they will be okay if they do the things- walk on the land, get swallowed by the whale, etc... so they do it because they trust god.  They perform a simple action of faith and God takes care of the rest.  

If you believe he organized the world and all the species of animals that are in it, why is it so hard to believe he could change the organization for a brief time or alter things by events or laws we cant understand yet?

I bet electricity used to look like magic too.

Answer 7

Well it's too late to ask James Bartlettt since he died a long time ago.

Medical science so stated that it might be possible but some skepics have attacked that very idea and have concluded it couldn't possibly have happened.

Medical science has been wrong before and the skeptics in  question can't even come up with a better story of what happened at 9/11. So I guess it's all where you get your facts from to whether you believe it could happen or not!

To some of the above post:

It was a lesson from GOD to Jonah. GOD can do anything and he could keep a man alive for untold specified time if he so wanted to do!

Answer 8

"how many documented modern day cases in history have there been where men have been rescured or vomited from a whales stomach? i know of 1 in the last century."

What kind of whale?

Answer 9

Well, first of all there's little to no air. So you'd suffocate fast.

Secondly, stomach acid would eat through you pretty quick. That's what it's there for.

Third, nothing in the Bible has even been historically proven to have happened.

I pity you, you're deluded.  

Answer 10

How many documented modern day cases in history where a planet like the sun was created from nothing, next you will be asking what do the scientist say will happen when you walk around in fire so hot that people that threw you into it died because of heat exposure? Or how do you explain how the earth turns at 186,000 miles per hour and we don't fly off into space like you would do on a merry-go-round? Why do people limit our creator as if he has the reasoning of imperfect man. Bwian is trying to figure out the mind of God with his puny  little .12% of mental ability! Why would anyone in there right mind(.12%) even give a ear to such reasoning? I guess to old saying is true, "if he had a brain, he'd take it out and play with it"Listing to some of these people's ideas and conclusions makes me come to the conclusion that the only thing they do with their brain is play with it. All things are possible with God, he formed man out of dust, I think he could keep him alive for three days in the belly of a whale. You know I was in sales for most of my life and a sure fire way to get someone to buy my wares was repeat to them their excuses for not buying, it sounded so stupid to them that they would buy before I was through repeating their reason for not buying. Well I guess we are always going to have some that would rather play with their brains then use them.

Answer 11

Well a person would have to take into account the environment of the stomach. No air, no light, stomach acid, stomach gases, full of digesting whale food (do they swallow a lot of water?). Yeah sure, that really sounds like a person could live there.

Answer 12

They are called miracles for a reason.

This just in, man cannot...

part waters,

walk on water,

feed thousands with a small amount of food,

cure the blind and the lame with a touch,

raise the dead,

and save himself from his own sin.

God, is either a supernatural being at work doing supernatural things, or He is not.

The choice is yours.

Answer 13

The story is true.Whales breathe air you know.