guess you wont be having your wedding at their church

He's certainly not wrong.

Oh, I don't know. Penguins and seals are considerably larger than grapefruits and Orca have no trouble swallowing those.

And whale-sharks are pretty big with giant mouths...

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Except if the story as the Grandmother was told it says whale, a whale being able to swallow a person IS myth. Bad translations don't mean that a myth isn't a myth.

That doesn't really change anything though because if whale should've been translated as fish, then you're saying it should be 'Jonah got eaten by a fish'... which is quite implausible.

It is biologically possible that a Sperm whale could swallow a human. Their prey includes giant squid.

Well, I can't say YDI, but I don't think this is an FYL either. Just kinda awkward.

You absolutely deserve this if you knew his beliefs as well as theirs. His dismissal of their faith is surely not going to win him any points.

I don't think OP deserves it at all, unless she didn't warn her bf before hand. She's not responsible for his actions, especially if he knew they were religious and he didn't care.

most Christians have common sense and know that many of the stories in the Bible are myths made up to get a certain point across...

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

To me, the funniest part is that the boyfriend is simply wrong. What he said might suit blue whales, but I highly doubt e.g. killer whales bite grape-sized pieces off of their prey.

But killer whales (proper name: orca) are technically dolphins, not whales.

While it's not true for all whales Orca's are dolphins, not whales. There's no whale that could swallow a person or a boat whole.

Either way, in the original language the Bible was written the word means fish, not whale. A big fish swallowed Jonah. Not a whale. Also, we don't know what kinds of fish they had around back then, plus God can do whatever he wants and can make anything possible. That's the whole reason behind faith, trusting something you can't see and believing in His miracles. Most christians do not "know these stories are made up to get a point across". The Bible is Gods word and everything in it is true. If you're a Christian you believe that. If you're not a Christian then yeah, I see how it's hard to believe if you want science to back up everything.

And dolphins are whales... At least that's the classification I learned. Whales are split between toothed whales (dolphins etc) and... "Bartenwale" in German, google gives me Baleen whales as a translation. A dolphin's a whale, and orca's a dolphin, so logically, an orca's a whale, too?

Just point out that the bible says fish, not whale. Then google "giant catfish". That should keep everyone happy.

LOL...almost all the comments are debating whether or not it was a fish or a whale. Apparently the rest of the story....a man surviving being in the belly of the whale ( fish,orca,whatever) for any real length of time and talking to a "supreme being" who miraculously saves him is completely plausible. :'D

Well, the main reason that's a point of contention is because if it is a whale, there are zero factual cases of a full grown human being swallowed alive- which makes the rest of the myth completely moot.

And in the ridiculously unlikely chance that the only whale capable of swallowing something of that size- a sperm whale swallowing a human- the human would be crushed almost immediately once they reached the stomach due to the whale's anatomy.

Your brother is not wrong about it being a myth. The whole thing is a myth, though.