Well, I think there may be a difference between 'believing Christ' and believing your interpretation of what He said. For example, Christ also said "You must eat my body and drink my blood," yet, as we all know, you don't take this quite as literally as you do the passages about John the Baptist being Elijah.
But you dodged my question: Was John the Baptist the son of Elizabeth and Zechariah?
Looks like I've still got game. :)
It's not an interpretation of what he said. It's unambiguous. Period.
But you dodged my question: Was John the Baptist the son of Elizabeth and Zechariah?
No, I didn't dodge the question. I said however it was accomplished, christ has answered it. Elizabeht and Zechariah could well have given birth to a new body for Elias - or they may have found and adopted him. Who knows and who cares. His physical body could not enter heaven, we know this from Paul. So one can play any number of games with this, it changes nothing Christ said - and without any ambiguity, he stated that John and Elias are one in the same.