Thread: How can you prove the existence of hereafter, i.e. life after death?
View Single Post
  #13 (permalink)  
Old 07-17-2008, 06:28 PM
RetiredGySgt's Avatar
RetiredGySgt RetiredGySgt is offline
Registered User
  
Join Date: May 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 12,384
Rep Power: 173
RetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religionRetiredGySgt could successfully start his own religion
Quote:
Originally Posted by busara View Post
can i ask for your interpretation of enoch and elijah's, um, ending? i believe these are the passages.
Genesis 5:24
2 Kings 2:11
Hebrews 11:5
E'noch was taken,he was no more, pretty straight forward. No mention of ascension to Heaven.

2 Kings 2:11 is a little tougher, I will ask someone with more knowledge then me to explain it. However my intital take is that Heaven and "the heavens" are not one and the same thing and the passage uses that term. The heavens as refered to in the passage usually means just the sky.

Hebrews 11:5 clearifies that Enoch was not ascended but rather "taken" as it his life ended. God did so so that he would not know the feeling of death. See Hebrews 11:13. It states these people all died.


Read John 3:13.

Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that that descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
__________________
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)
Reply With Quote