Jesus gave Catholic priests The Same Power with Which God forgave the people of Nineveh!
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Question 1: “What do Catholics see when we take a new look at Jonah and the whale, or ‘the big fish’, that swallowed him in The Book of Jonah 1-11?”
Answer: “We see that its stomach had powerful digestive juices.”
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Question 2: “How does seeing that give Catholics a ‘new look’ at Jonah?”
Answer: “We see that the digestive juices in its stomach ate away at Jonah while he was inside it for three days! His skin looked terrible!”
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Question 3: “Did Jonah look worse than some sort of ‘leper’ when he went to warn the people of Nineveh of the disaster that God was about to visit upon their city?”
Answer: “God may have used that disfigurement to give Jonah credibility to the people, and king, of Nineveh. ‘What happened to you?’, they must have asked. When he told them that his disobedience led him to run away from God and how God brought him to Nineveh in a ‘huge fish’ whose digestive juices ate much of his skin away, they saw a reason to take his warning very seriously.”
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Question 4: “How seriously did the King and people of Nineveh take Jonah’s warning?”
Answer: “They fasted, prayed, and repented of their sins.”
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Question 5: “Did repentance keep them from being destroyed by God?”
Answer: “Yes! God spared them from the destruction that would have otherwise fallen upon them.”
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Question 6: “What do Catholics learn from that?”
Answer: “We learn that our own souls may be so disfigured by sin that they are repulsive to God.”
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Question 7: “Do only Catholics Think Clearly enough to respect The Power of Jesus to give Catholic priests His Power to absolve us from our sins?”
Answer: “Only Catholics meaningfully understand that Jesus gave His Catholic priests That Power when He specifically said to them in John 20:23: ‘Those whose sins you forgive on earth are forgiven in Heaven’.”
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Jonah helps Catholics live by this simple rhyme: “I want to go to Heaven when I die. / I do not want to go to hell and fry!”
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