Posted on 03/25/2011 4:02:17 PM PDT by americanophile
Luke 9 describes Moses and Elijah as “two men” twice, which I think weighs against a strange appearance for them. The passage can easily be confused, though, to think that Moses and Elijah, “appeared in glory”, but a careful reading shows that the glorified one is Christ, not Moses and Elijah.
We have to be careful not to give ourselves too much credit being on this side. Your friends priorities may have changed a bit since passing over, now knowing things that we dont.
Its a mystery, Im tellin’ ya!
You want them to come in from the endless beach party to make a long distance call to you?
Face it pal, they're having a better time than they would have talking to you. You've been ditched.
Catch up to them later and get even.
What's wrong with that? It was good enough for the mother of Colton Harris-Moore, the barefoot burglar and regional folk legend here in the NW.
“The only reason they didn’t believe is because they choose not to.”
Well, like I said, I can only speculate, but the verses I posted show God had some involvement in making some people blind to the truth of Jesus. Perhaps the “hardening” of their hearts was only temporary, so that the task of Jesus would be accomplished according to God’s will, kind of like Pharoah’s heart was hardened temporarily during the Exodus.
But, there are examples of people who recognized the miracles, and joined with the Christians, but didn’t truly believe after all. Just look at Simon Magus. God certainly would know in advance that people like Simon might have some semblance of faith but not truly believe.
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