What about Elijah?
As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind.”
II KINGS 2:11
and Mary?
n the early Church the relics of saints and martyrs were zealously sought after and prized, but no one ever claimed to have the bones of Mary. In fact, St John Damascene tells us:
“St. Juvenal, Bishop of Jerusalem, at the Council of Chalcedon [AD 451], made known to the Emperor Marcian and Pulcheria, who wished to possess the body of the Mother of God, that Mary died in the presence of all the Apostles, but that her tomb, when opened, upon the request of St. Thomas, was found empty; wherefrom the Apostles concluded that the body was taken up to heaven” (St John of Damascus, in Migne’s Patrologia Graeca Cursus Completus 96:1).
What? Are you seriously saying that because of no presence of some bones, that means a woman ascended into Heaven?
Have you seen all the criminal cold cases of missing bodies?
Wait. Ignore that last comment. Instead, please see comment #79, which also applies to you.
(As for Elijah, perhaps you should consult Jesus on Elijah’s whereabouts, because what Jesus said in John 3:13 may cause you some confusion.)
The angel said to Daniel... But go thy way till the end be: for thou shall rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of days. Daniel 2 ch 12 v13
And I saw the dead,small and great,stand before God;and the books were opened which is the book of life and the dead were judged out of the things written in the books... Rev 20 v12-13
Sounds like Daniel and a lot of people didn’t make it to Heaven until final judgement.