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The Book of Jonah Introduction/ background of the Book of Jonah The book of Jonah is not a book on missions! If there is one book in the Old Testament that people enjoy reading, it would be the Book of Jonah.  It is short, has four chapters and it is easy to understand.  It involves one prophet, God, sailor going to Tarshish, the sinful city of Ninevites, the fish, the worm, the sea, the wind.  The book of Jonah preached to all ages.  From children Sunday school class to people who are in age.  They even made a children song. It goes like this: “Who did, who did, who did swallow prophet Jonah.” The book of Jonah shows us the character of God.  God who decides to save the great city of Nineveh, at the same time, shows that same love to the prophet Jonah.      Author/Date The book of Jonah is an Old Testament book, one of the miner prophets. The author was Jonah himself.  Critics say that Jonah was referred to in the third person, so Jonah is not the author.  However,

Often skeptics of the Bible, pose a question: If God were all-powerful, he would have had ability to prevent evil. If God were all-good, he would have desired to prevent evil. So if God were both all-powerful and all good, there would have been no evil. But there is evil. Therefore, an all-powerful and all-good God does not exist. How can such a God exist, since there are so many children who are murdered every day? How can this God exist, when innocent girls get raped? The matter to be told, everyone has his own definition of evil. For example, some would say, murdering children after they are born is evil, yet murdering children while the baby is still in the womb is not. In fact, killing babies inside of a mother’s womb has been legalized and become socially accepted. Definition of Evil Most people who attempt to answer the problem of evil, define evil according to their own experiences. Overtime, a perspective on the definition of evil is formed, and most people reject