Is it likely that God would go to so much trouble to teach one man? Curiosity is what attracts us to the book of Jonah due to it not being like any other in the Old Testament. ... Jonah reveals to them that he is a Hebrew and his God is the God of the heavens, maker of the land and sea and that he is fleeing his God. ... The Lord became angrier so the mariners proceed to throw Jonah into the sea. ... Allen says, "The OT seeks to glorify the man of God in the sense that he is revealed as a noble mediator of God's own power and glory. ...

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Barely 60 years old, Israel has a wide variety of immigrants from all over the globe. ... Of course small towns still live by the old values, but the consensus is very positive toward single people. ... Many marriages will not last too long, mainly because the wife is too young, the husband older, and the age difference is too big. ... Kung mother will usually breast feed until the child is about three years old. ... Having an older child didn't help, and usually our conversation were interrupted by either one of them. ...

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An example of one of Basser's arguments concerns the three separate yet similar stories when Jesus cured a man, or woman depending on the Gospel writer, who had a "withered hand" on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-13, Luke 13:14-17, Luke 14:3-5). ... To Jesus, the man or woman's withered hand was worth over-riding scribal law for, however, it may still be possible to assume, like some Pharisees did, that the charge against Jesus for healing on the Sabbath was one of breaking divine Torah Law, as it says in Exodus 31:15, "When it is possible to do a commandment on another day, the Sabbath...

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