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1 | Elijah went where? | Genesis | Searcher56 | 171503 | ||
God's day to you, drbloor ... no contradictions exist in the Bible. Also, when you ask a question - please check out the verse first. There were already answers to your questions. If your question hasn't been asked, please post the question under that verse. Go to posts 171501 and 62431 for answers. |
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2 | Elijah went where? | Genesis | drbloor | 171518 | ||
Dear Searcher, My apologies that the question on Heaven and Elijah was not posted under a verse, but it was a direct response in a discussion thread, not a new question. Thank you for directing me to those two answers, but I must admit that if those are the best answers that can be given then the answerers are grasping at straws. 1. "No man hath ascended up to heaven". The answer given to this is basically to dismiss the words of Christ because you disagree with them. That's unacceptable. Your claim is that "Jesus insisted that no one has ascended to heaven in such a way as to return and talk about heavenly things". I have no doubt that Jesus is stating his authority to talk about heavenly things, but he does so by explicitly stating that no-one else has ever ascended to heaven. Your Bible may well add the words "and returned to talk about it", but mine doesn't. Also, your argument about context is simply wrong. You claim that Jesus is refuting teaching that people went to heaven and returned with revelations. Yet that issue is not addressed once in the entire chapter, so your context doesn't exist! (In fact, I'm uncertain whether that issue is raised in the entire length and breadth of scripture.) If Jesus said that "no man hath ascended up to heaven" then you either agree with him or you call him a liar. 2. "A letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet"... Again, the answer to this is to dismiss what is obvious in favour of the fantastical. The answer given to this is to claim that the letter was written before Elijahs disappearance. However, this would necessitate not only the foreknowledge of the specific particulars of the letter – events that had not occurred at the time of Elijahs disappearance, such as Jehoram murdering his brothers – but it would also require for God to have condemned Jehoram before he committed any sin and it would require Elijah to have allowed these murders to take place without attempting to stop them. That is an implausible reach. In addition, we are not told that the letter was written by Elijah, but that the letter "came ... from Elijah". If Elijah was in Heaven, then the letter came from Heaven! Your attempt to force 2 Chr 21 to fit your version of events is like hammering a square peg into a round hole. You are right to say that the Bible does not contradict itself, but respectfully that does not mean that the Bible does not contradict you. Yrs, Dr. B. |
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3 | Elijah went where? | Genesis | Searcher56 | 171525 | ||
Since I posted about Elijah under the proper verse, that is where I'll respond ... where you should have. | ||||||