You have meaningfully sliced up what I have said thin enough to have effectively ignored the bulk of it. And more importantly, you have not lifted a pinky to justify your violence against God’s word as clearly exposed.
I will not stand down on this issue, you will stand corrected or this conversion will end unpleasantly because I have no respect for willful liars and perverts, especially when directed against God’s word. Anyone who does respect such people are trying to be nicer than God, which is foolishness and likely selfish sin.
You tried to stretch my analogy beyond what it was used for, which was simply to point out the immorality of being purposefully dishonest or deceptive. I even congratulated you for doing well on understanding my analogy, but now I have to take it back because now you mishandle it.
God’s positive truth claim = Nineveh’s disastrous overthrow
My positive truth claim = I will pay you $200/hour to work for me with the stipulation that you must wait to be paid until after a month’s time of full time work.
If you want to continue with the analogy, you must consider accurately what happened. God said that He did “not” do what He said He would do, because the people changed such that it contradicted the original circumstances, so God changed His judgment accordingly.
For me to analogously say that I “did not do what I said I would do”, would be for me to pay you even though you did not do the work for me according to the original situation! That would be a very strange analogy, and does not help much. Besides, concerning what actually did happen with God and Nineveh, the situation is simple and easy such that it needs no analogy. So stop avoiding the scripture, deal with it.
So then, why did I give my analogy? Because you folks are so deluded, you don’t even see the hypocrisy in your own lives over this issue about subverting a literal truth into a non-literal and/or meaninglessness.
With your words only, you promote that it can be good and godly to offer an honest serious judgment of harsh condemnation, and then later just say it was not literal, or that it was conditional and thus represents no change in original course of action. But your life betrays your hypocrisy because you will not come and work for me for even $500 bucks an hour because you know that I will just pull the same wicked stunt you are trying to levy against God and His word, in that I would just say, hey, remember what I said at the beginning, all that stuff about me paying you $100, $200, or even $500 bucks an hour, forget all that, that was either
figurative, I did not literally mean what I said,
or
it was actually conditional even though I never stated the condition.
That is why you would not come and work for me, so you live the exact opposite of what you say you believe.
Also, no matter how you look at it, it would be WRONG for me to absolutely KNOW that I was NOT going to pay you, yet still say
1) I will pay you!
2) I repented from doing what I said I would do, and I did not do it.
In both cases, if I absolutely knew that would not pay you, then in both cases I would be dishonest about my intentions.
You KNOW that is wrong, and that is why you would not work for me under this analogy, so you’re a hypocrite. Shucks I might even make it more than what I have generously offered already! But you wont, because when the rubber meets the road and truth becomes undeniable, I’m right, your wrong and you’ve been playing the hypocrite.
As to Jonah being sent, I already answered you fully, and you have presented no new questioning, so until you do, I direct your attention to what I already said. God intended on doing exactly what He did, including sending Jonah, yet He still ended up relenting from doing what He said He would do, and He did NOT DO IT. I see you still will not touch that truth from God’s word with anything but ignorance and violence. At least your consistent.
You suggest that God did do what He said He would do by “overthrowing” Nineveh, so He did what He said He would do.
So God did not mean a lethal disaster, only a moral/spiritual overthrow, but, you also say that the “disaster” implied Nineveh literally perishing(!!!). :kookoo: So evidently you don not even know what you believe. You are lost in a world of contradiction and false teaching. :radar: But I stand on God’s word hoping you would stop violating it. :nono:
I have already given you one chance to stand corrected for your perversions and an outright lie, and you have chosen the path of self defense refusing to be held accountable for violating scripture as you have. Strike one, my patience is wearing thin, you are well aware of what you have done. I strongly suggest that you re-read my exposure of your ill treatment of God’s word and respond accordingly or this conversation may become unpleasant rather quickly for your willful ignorance and violence against God’s word. Not because you do not agree with me, but because you lie and pervert against scripture as clearly exposed.
If you had planned on responding to my very serious charges, then you should have said so without presenting the impression that you are ignoring all that. What a short list, lying against and pervert scripture, combined with a generous helping of hypocrisy.
