Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Crumb's Crunchy Delights
do you people even read your instruction manual?
Matthew 11:13-14 "For all the prophets and the law have prophesied until John. And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who was to come."
john the baptist was the reincarnation of elijah fer crissakes
theres more if you want
|
actually.. the pre-christian hebraic mythology ascribed Elijah to be an angel from Creation, not an incarnation, but a vision. Angels in Biblical literature can appear in the illusory form of human beings (as with those who visited Abraham or Jacob) but are not in the flesh, are not literal incarnations, rather they are spiritual beings who can manipulate human sensory perception to appear like flesh, but by no means have any. This is deep Hebrew mysticism..
Christians inherit this tradition, and so if John The Baptist is truly an incarnation of Elijah, then he was not specifically a REincarnation, but rather was perhaps the only true incarnation in human flesh of the angel we call Elijah. But the Church does by default accept reincarnation in regards to Elijah, as the Church accepts the Elijah in his first appearance "was a man of like-minded weakness as ourselves" and so logically he must be a reincarnation in the form of John the Baptist..
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by SONIC GAIL
It's not a fucking instruction manual, it is a beautiful piece of literature passed down through the years.
|
perfect synopsis.. if folks could just understand that then perhaps there might not be so much infighting about the Bible.. We don't get into such serious arguments (even to the point of killing each other) over Shakespeare or Homer do we?
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by SONIC GAIL
.I will see you in the next life
|
"if I don't see you anymore in this life.. I'll catch you in the next one so don't be late
"
