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To: kerryusama04
It wasn't until HWA that the status of Elijah or Enoch has ever been questioned. There are sufficient passages for me to take the Bible at what it says, the Enoch and Elijah did not die. Perhaps I am wrong, but I will take my faith from the Book over the doctrine of a man every day of the week.

Let me make a correction to your understanding here. Whatever Armstrong may have been, he didn't make up stuff whole cloth. Howerver, he DID take little known information and make it well known. Critics would say he plagiarized ideas.

The status of Elijah and Enoch has been questioned long before Armstrong. Many Jewish commentators on the OT believe that yes indeed, Enoch died. Gills exposition says:

"and he was not; not that he was dead, or in the state of the dead, as Aben Ezra and Jarchi interpret the phrase following: for God took him, out of the world by death." There's also an interesting article here

Here's an excerpt:

" This belief about Enoch and Elijah being taken alive into heaven does not appear anywhere in the Old Testament. It first makes its appearance in Jewish thought and literature during the intertestamental period. That is, this belief doesn't appear until AFTER the Jews return from the seventy year long Babylonian Captivity. "

I don't think we're making much progress here, so I'll close with another scripture that proves that Enoch, or anyone else, is immortal:

1Ti 6:13 I charge you before God (who makes all things alive) and in the sight of Christ Jesus (who witnessed the good confession to Pontius Pilate),
1Ti 6:14 that you keep the commandment without spot and without blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Ti 6:15 For He in His own time will reveal who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
1Ti 6:16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in light which cannot be approached, whom no one of men have seen, nor can see; to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.

Scripture says that only Christ is immortal. Enoch's time has not yet come.

You're welcome to have the last word.

50 posted on 02/22/2007 11:39:19 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
I think 1TI6:16 is why people believe Enoch and Elijah to be the two witnesses in Revelation.

The last word(s) would be:

I don't know.

52 posted on 02/22/2007 11:46:00 AM PST by kerryusama04 (Isa 8:20, Eze 22:26)
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