Old Testament Miracle A Historical Fact

There is a writer who of late seems to take great pride in mocking the account given in the book of Jonah (1:17). Unbelievers, and false teachers in the church have for years rejected this miracle, calling it fiction. However, Jesus Himself regarded it as a historical fact. He used the incident of Jonah and the great fish (a whale according to our Lord), to illustrate His own death, burial and resurrection (Matthew 12:39-41). Skeptics who deny this miracle should keep in mind that they have to reckon with the very words of Jesus. Perhaps though, these most learned skeptics are wiser than Jesus. The same writer also hinted sometime earlier that the Bible was written during the time when men thought the earth was flat. Most people would have probably read that the men of the Middle Ages thought that the earth was flat and the stars near. Actually, this is a lie. Ptolemy had told them that the earth was a mathematical point without size in relation to the distance of the fixed stars. A distance which one ancient text estimates at 117 million miles. As to how what Ptolemy said then became, “the earth was flat”, I do not know. Those who read their “little” Bibles do not leave their brains at the door and come in and praise the Lord, as some would like to mislead. Chesterton indeed got it right when he said, “The Christian faith has not been tried and found wanting. It has rather been found difficult and left untried”. Maybe Christendom is better off that way.