Dada
From Kristos Vocabulary Booster
Dutch (Flemish)
adverb
- (child language): away
Example of use: Oma gaat dada. (Granny is going away now.)
interjection
- (child language): bye-bye
Example of use: Zeg dada aan oma. (Say bye-bye to granny.)
James wrote:
> >Warren Post
> >Im trying to understand John 1:21a, where John the Baptist denies that
> >he is Elijah. Yet Matthew tells us specifically that he was Elijah
> >(17:12-13), and Mark and Luke both make this clear as well (Mr 9:13 and
> >Lk 1:17). Im not sure how to reconcile these verses. Could John the
> >Baptist have recognized Jesus as Christ without recognizing himself in the
> >prophesy of Malachi 4:5? Was John lying or deliberately dissimulating? Or
> >am I missing something here?
>
> Hello,
>
> The Bible sometimes speaks symbolically. And that is the case here.
>
> An obvious example would be when Jesus said he was a "door". (Joh 10:9)
> Obviously Jesus was a person, not a literal door, but he was so in a
> symbolic way, as the context of John 10:9 shows.
Yet Matthew 17:11, Jesus says Elijah had already come, the the
disciples understood that he was talking about John The Baptist. Was
Jesus lying? Why didn't you also quote this verse?
> It is a similar thing with John the Baptist being called Elijah. Here
> is that prophecy you mentioned in Malachi. Mal 4:5,6,
>
> "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful
> day of the LORD comes. 6 He will turn the hearts of the fathers to
> their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or
> else I will come and strike the land with a curse." (NIV)
So not only must Jesus be lying (which is impossible), but prophecy is
lying, too, eh?
> And yet as you said above, John denied being him. (Joh 1:21) But
> apparently John the Baptist did have certain qualities of Elijah and
> that is what the prophecy in Malachi was referring to. This is brought
> to our attention in Luke 1:17,
>
> "And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah,
> to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and the disobedient
> to the wisdom of the righteous--to make ready a people prepared for the
> Lord."" (NIV)
> Thus according to the Bible, John the Baptist was not the actual
> prophet Elijah, but rather had Elijah's spirit and power for preparing
> the Jews for the arrival of Jesus.
None of the verses states this at all. The only evidence you have of
this is John himself denying that he was Elijah. If you concede that he
was symbolically Elijah, wouldn't John have at least admitted this?
Also, how do you explain his being taken up in a fiery chariot? I won't
say "into heaven" because I know you don't believe this. However, he
was obviously taken _somewhere_. If he died, it was certainly in an
unconventional way, even Jesus died an ordinary death. If the
archangel, Michael, who according to you is Jesus, can be incarnated in
the form of a man, then why argue that God could or would not take a
man and do the same?
Zach
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