While Jonah flees, God pursues.

While Jonah sleeps in the hull, the sailors pray and try to save the ship from the storm ( 1: 4-6 ).

While Jonah passively finds himself forced to act under the Divine Will, the people of Nineveh actively petition God to change His mind.

While Jonah metaphorically declared, “ Out of the belly of Sheol I cried ,” Jesus will literally be in the belly of Sheol.

1874: While tracking down the kidnapper of Laura Vanden, Jonah once again comes in contact with the Apache chief and is captured.

While Superman was attending to Batman's wounds, Jonah ambushed him and manages to kill Superman using Kryptonite bullets, and blowing his head off in the end.

While on Venus, Ransom becomes in effect a prophet in the Biblical sense-i. e., a person to whom God speaks and on whom a specific Divine command is imposed ( and who, like Jonah, strongly resists and makes a considerable effort to avoid, before bowing to the inevitable ).

While the three gods are at the falls, Ótr ( in the form of an otter ) catches a salmon and eats it on a river bank, his eyes shut, when Loki hits and kills him with a stone.

While the live show is proceeding elsewhere, Heidi attempts suicide by hanging, but her weight breaks the chandelier from the ceiling and she falls through the floor.

While exploring the city and trying to catch a glimpse of the recently captured False Dragon, Rand falls into the palace gardens.

While biodegradable simply means an object naturally falls apart into its base components, " compostable " makes the specific demand that the object break down into humus, organic compounds.

While a megaton-class yield will inevitably throw up many tons of ( newly ) radioactive debris, which falls back to the earth as fallout, critics contend that despite their relatively minuscule explosive yield, nuclear bunker busters create more fallout per kiloton yield.

While Bennell inspects a near-by farm where more pods are bred, Becky falls asleep and is instantly taken over.

While some jurisdictions still use physicians, nurses, and technicians for transporting patients, increasingly this role falls to specialized senior and experienced paramedics.

While the film falls victim to the romantic mythology surrounding the unhappy marriage of Elisabeth and Franz Joseph, the political problems of the empire and the personal troubles of the main characters are dealt with in much better detail than many other dramas.

While they clean the windows of a wool shop, Wallace meets and falls in love with Wendolene Ramsbottom, the shopkeeper.

While every nuclear weapon design falls into one of the above categories, specific designs have occasionally become the subject of news accounts and public discussion, often with incorrect descriptions about how they work and what they do.

While rehabilitating her, Don falls in love with the tempestuous actress.

While waste transport within a given country falls under national regulations, trans-boundary movement of waste is often subject to international treaties.

While waiting to board their plane, they watch as the suitcase falls off a cart, breaks open and the loose banknotes are swept away by the wind.

While Annie waits for the match to start, she meets Frank Butler and falls instantly in love with him, not knowing he will be her opponent.

While pursuing Sauron in the Savage Land, Angel is attacked by pteranodons and falls to his death.

While Sean flies away in anger, Tom falls into a chasm, breaking his leg as a result of the attack, which leaves him with a limp.

While with the X-Men, he meets the X-Men's ally, Dr. Moira MacTaggert, and then falls in love with her.

While it rises, the basis function of the previous control point falls.

While the group passes through a small town, the rebellious Johnny falls for honor student Kathy Winslow ( Kristin Minter ).

While this policy falls short of a complete fusion or merger, at least for now, this is likely to lead to more sharing of missions and less distinction between CRS and Gendarmes Mobiles in future.

While astrally projecting, Prue's physical body falls unconscious while her astral body appears in a new location in corporeal form.

While all race to the canyon floor, Hesh-ke tries to kill Inga, but loses the horse-back struggle and falls to her death.

While this is going on, Étienne also falls for Maheu's daughter Catherine, also employed pushing carts in the mines, and he is drawn into the relationship between her and her brutish lover Chaval, a prototype for the character of Buteau in Zola's later novel La Terre ( 1887 ).

While many companies would say that they do both, in reality the investment of time and money falls squarely in one approach or the other.

While Kierkegaard's feeling of angst is fear of actual responsibility to God, in modern use, angst was broadened by the later existentialists to include general frustration associated with the conflict between actual responsibilities to self, one's principles, and others ( possibly including God ).

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

While Yahweh had shown his superiority to other gods before, in Second Isaiah he becomes the sole God of the world.

While most prophets had heroic names ( e. g., Isaiah means " God has saved "), Jonah's name carries with it an element of passivity.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

While the Gospels of Mark and Matthew begin by calling Jesus both Christ and the Son of God, these are two distinct attributions.

While there have been many theological disputes over the nature of Jesus over the earliest centuries of Christian history, Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

While God does not change, our perception of God does, and so, Jews are open to new experiences of God's presence.

While there are those who maintain that God will punish or reward us according to our behavior on Earth, likewise there are those who assert that any punishment or reward that is due to us is given during our mortal stay on Earth.

While Moses is with God, Aaron makes a golden calf, which the people worship.

While on his way, Elijah meets Obadiah, the head of Ahab's household, who had hidden a hundred prophets of the God of Israel when Ahab and Jezebel had been killing them.

While Paul's opening prayer is for love ( 1: 9 ), based on knowledge of Christ, his final prayer is for the peace of God ( 4: 7 ), which surpasses all understanding.

While some limit speaking in tongues to speech addressed to God-" prayer or praise ", others claim that speech in tongues is revelation from God to the church, and when interpreted into human language by those embued with the gift of interpretation of tongues for the benefit of others present, may be considered equivalent to prophecy.

* While the synoptics look forward to a future Kingdom of God ( using the term parousia, meaning " coming "), John presents an eschatology that has already been realized.

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity ( Judaism never recognized any gender for God ) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderizing language used to name and describe the divine ( Ruether, 1984 ; Plaskow, 1991 ), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions ( Kien, 2000 ; Kidd 1996 ," Goddess Christians Yahoogroup ").

While the observance of these statutes would have and do lead to several health benefits, Jewish belief commands that these rituals and prohibitions be kept purely to fulfill the will of God with no ulterior motive.

While from a Catholic viewpoint there have been tensions concerning some developments of the practice, the Pope said, there is no denying the goodness of the intention that inspired its defence, which was to stress that man is offered the concrete possibility of uniting himself in his inner heart with God in that profound union of grace known as theosis, divinization.

While he was sick with a fever, he professed his full belief in Christ and asked God to take control of his destiny.

While the gentile peoples, seduced by demons, had deserted the true God for idols, the Jews and Samaritans possessed the revelation given through the prophets and awaited the Messiah.