[metmom]

Also, I am not one who thinks that if it isn’t written of in Scripture it didn’t happen or isn’t possible. That is a Sola Scriptura belief.

Nobody is saying THAT. What we are saying is that just because it isn't mentioned doesn't mean you can presume it did and teach it as truth.

Anything not mentioned in Scripture is suspect until proved otherwise.

Do you believe that Moses’ soul went to heaven and God gave him a new body to return to earth? And if you do, where is that in Scripture?

Double standard much?

That would be the only logical conclusion to be made especially since Scripture CLEARLY says that Moses died and was buried. TO conclude anything else has to deny the clear, plain statements made in Scripture.

Why Moses and Elijah?

Jesus came to fulfill the Law (Moses) and the Prophets (Elijah)

Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

[smvoice]

Whatever happened to Abraham's Bosom, where all the righteous went before Christ's resurrection? It is empty now, because Christ emptied it when He went there and liberated those who righteous captives, taking them to heaven with Him when He ascended on high. (Mt. 12:40; Eph. 4:8-10). Jude 9 says Michael the archangel contended with the devil over Moses' body. The devil claimed his body, but God intervened and took the body, burying ti in the land of Moab (Dt. 34:5-6). If he has been resurrected, it had to be after the resurrection of Jesus who is the firstfruit of all that have died. Moses had to have been in soulish form in Matt. 17:1-8. Moses had to have been brought up from Abraham's Bosom (paradise below the earth). He had full consciousness and wore clothes of some kind between death and resurrection. As weird as that sounds, we don't know very much about the spirit world. ONly what God has revealed in His Word.

So, it seems it was Elijah from heaven, and Moses from Abraham's Bosom. My opinion only..

[Jvette]

***Double standard much?***

Merely holding protestants to the standard by which they bash Catholicism.

I have no problem with you thinking that Moses’ soul went to heaven and then he got a new body to return to earth, but Scripture does not SAY that, therefore, how is it you came to that belief?

That would be the only logical conclusion to be made especially since Scripture CLEARLY says that Moses died and was buried.

Why is your conclusion more logical or credible than mine?

God took Elijah into heaven, body and soul so it obviously is something He has done and could do for others. To believe that is no less valid than believing that Moses was given a new body to return to earth.