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To: Jvette; metmom
>>So based on Scripture, knowing that Jesus would not conjure up the ghost of Moses, that God has already assumed Elijah, and knowing that Moses was with Him at the Transfiguration, I have come to believe that Moses is in heaven body and soul.

We are told that Angels are spirit.

Hebrews 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

We are also told that spirits do not have flesh and bone.

Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

Yet we are told that Angels can appear as men.

Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Knowing that spirit beings can appear as humans can you show whether or not Moses was a spirit being only “appearing” as a man? Can you show from scripture that Moses was indeed “assumed” into heaven in order to appear with Jesus rather than just “appearing” as a human like the angels do?

2,522 posted on 11/17/2011 8:52:33 AM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

We are not spirits like the angels. Our souls are immortal, only our bodies die and therefore, it can only be the body that can be raised up again.

When we are told that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God” it is immediately followed by “corruption cannot inherit incorruption”.

This is merely saying that as sinful humans, we cannot inherit on our own, we need Jesus.

Was the Moses seen with Jesus only a spirit appearing as a human?

I don’t know, and Scripture doesn’t say.

Scripture does say though that we will be resurrected, as Jesus was resurrected and Jesus was resurrected in the body in which His soul lived.

Changed? Transformed? Perfected? All of those things, but different, no I don’t believe so.


2,614 posted on 11/17/2011 6:44:36 PM PST by Jvette
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