But the Rev. Benke did not pray and speak like Elijah. Instead, he prayed and spoke like a pleaser of men, affirming their idolatry and effectively reducing the one true God to one among the pantheon.
"I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me" (John 14:6).
St. Peter confessed before a hostile audience:
"Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12).
Nowhere does Benke say anything like that. He does not tell the pagans that their false religions will not save them, that they have been holding on to false hopes, and that now they should trust in Christ as the only Savior from sin and death.