In my opinion Jonah wanted to die because he was ashamed and did not want to commence God's mission, but since he cannot commit suicide he wanted them to push him of the ship. ... But since Jonah was not in the mood to reason, God used a lesson to help Jonah understand the problem with his uncompassionate way of thinking. ... While Jonah had been happy the day before, his circumstances changed to become "unbearable." Jonah again begs to die, apparently with more earnestness than he had before. Now, using the lesson of the plant, God confronts Jonah's problem of misplaced compassion...

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He saw some principles of evolution much before Darwin published his facts. When his best friend Arthur Hallam died Tennyson was extremely depressed. ... In the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope for rebirth, "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov"n across the sky; From our waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: (Tennyson 3.5-8). ... If you are good then before people thought they would go to heaven. ... Matthew Arnold liked to teach lessons of the wrongs of current society through hi...

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The honest admission of the father's somewhat "limited" (Holland, 2013) belief is the setting that Elder Holland chooses in order to build each individual's faith. ... God could say the very same thing to the man who brought his son before Him in Mark Nine. ... Nephi declared that we must "follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent" (2 Nephi 31:13). ...

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