Was John The Baptist really Elijah the Prophet? Christ said yes,John said no.?

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Matthew 17:10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

Matthew 17:11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

Matthew 17:12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

Matthew 17:13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

Pretty clear here that the disciples knew what Jesus was saying...also clear that Jesus (or the guy named jesus in the book) thought reincarnation was real.

Further confirmation that Jesus thought reincarnation was real can be found in John 9:1 “Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. (2) And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

(3) Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.

How could a man's sins cause him to be BORN blind? How? Only if the man had sinned in a previous life. The disciples sure seemed to think this was a viable question to ask...if they did not think a man's sins could follow him from one life to another they would not have asked if the man had sinned or if his parents had sinned....they would have just asked about the parents.

And Jesus does not try to corrrect them...Jesus does not say "no man can be born with sin they themselves commited". So once again, the man named Jesus in the book confirms belief in reincarnation.

I believe Matthew 11:14 was said in the spirit of 2 Kings 2:9, whereby Elijah gave to Elisha a double portion of his spirit. In the same way, Jesus was saying that John the Baptist had come in the spirit of Elijah, not that he was Elijah. Also Malachi 3:1 is the one Jesus referred to explicitly; Malachi 4:5 is a reference to one of two prophets mentioned in Revelation 11, so I am led to believe.

Jesus didn't quote, from the prophet Malachi,Chapter 3 verses 1-6 the mission of John the Baptist, and the coming of the Lord.See Revelations 11.3-6 also for Elijah to come again before the day of the Lord.

As the two personalities are not one.

Jesus is the truth and Saint John had the prophetic mission of Elijah

But at the same time, Saint John said the truth that he was not Elijah

He was, and he wasn't. That is the point. Jesus' identification then tells us that the prophetic Elijah came with John. It wasn't Elijah in person, but someone as powerful in spirit as Elijah!

It was a prophecy that was fulfilled upon John by him being a person who came in the spirit and 'image' of Elijah. That is what the two scriptures come together to mean.

you misunderstood.

malachi 4/5 See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that GREAT AND DREADFUL day of the LORD comes.

it wasn't a great and dreadful day when Jesus was crucified. this is referring to an event that has not happened. Jesus likened His cousin to the famed prophet because they were both alone in the wilderness preaching the word that cleanses. elijah conducted ritual cleansing (baptism) and so did john.

Elijah should know better than Jesus who he was.

Jesus was an ordinary Jewish apocalyptic prophet, and i suspect Jesus regarded himself as inferior to John (apparently a very powerful individual). So both quotes make sense in this context. John did not wish to self-aggrandize, and Jesus was obviously into some kind of hero-worship.

Are you asserting that Jesus believed that Elias had survived in Israel all those centuries, and that he replaced into nevertheless alive and posing as John the Baptist? If no longer, then I fail to make certain the dichotomy. John wasn't Elias - yet he fulfilled the 'pesher' of the prophesy.

Hi!

I can understand your concern because I went through the same thing.I also used to wonder about God, so I studied the bible and wondered who wrote it..because some of the chapters were so confusing , I simply couldn't believe that God would sent down such a disorganized book(but my hunch is that the guy named peter wrote his heart out in the bible and filled it up with gibberish), but all I found was a bunch of unverified stories which confuses the readers. First I saw that there were over 9 versions of the bible, and each of them were different. It said that Jesus was God's son....but then I started thinking that if God is not a human, then how could he have kids. This guy was saying that look, jesus didn't have any father, so his dad must have been God himself! But when I told him that Adam and Eve didn't have any parents either. Does that make them god's children too? Well, all this was so confusing , that I started looking into some other religion to see what they had to say about God etc.Then Bible considers everyone to be sinners, and that God had to send his "son" to get rid of sins.This was strange that God would kill his innocent "son" in order to get rid of evil satan.! it sounded pretty cruel to me.Why would His "son" have to die for other peoples sins, or for satan, who makes people sin? Christianity also calls religious law a curse,and so that if someone follows religious laws ,they are in a curse.

Not too long ago, I bumped into this guy named Yousef Estes. He was a priest, so I told him about my confusions.Then he told me about a book called the Quran. It was the holy book of a religion called Islam. He told me that this book was "really" original. And trust me, when I read it, it didn't seem man made at all. The entire book didn't have a single contradictory statement. Then I later searched on you tube...you may want to check this out too;. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHiAGHFnzMU . If you watch a couple of those videos , you'll be amazed by some of the facts that matches so much with modern science. I mean if a guy wrote that book, he couldn't have known all this stuff more than 1400 years ago. In Islam,everyone is responsible for their own deeds, good or bad. No one dies or suffers for other peoples sins. If someone does something wrong, all he has to do is ask God for forgiveness sincerely, and promise not to do it again. God will certainly forgive him according to his intentions.

At first, I wasn't too sure if this Quran was original coz I thought it was also altered like the bible, but I later went to Turkey. There, I saw the original copy of the Quran, which was written 1400 years ago. It matched exactly with the current one.

Anyway, just check these out.I'm sure it will clear out your confusion.

Obviously there has to be some One up there who made us, created Adam and Eve.

there are so many different beliefs around,one really needs to look deep into a religion to determine if it is authentic.

the maze is to find the right religion that will lead us to heaven. if it weren't so confusing then god wouldn't have created heaven or hell.

anyway i bumped into this faith that made sense to me. it believes that god sent Judaism through prophet Moses, and Christianity through Jesus, and lastly Islam through Muhammad. it honors all the past religions and it is the only faith that was never changed a bit since the prophet Mohammad’s time.

unlike Christianity which is pretty confusing with so many bibles that has been altered and Judaism that also changes their laws through Rabbis, Islam was never changed , not laws nor the holy Quran.you can actually find the real 1400 years old copy in a museum in Turkey. I don't know much about science thing, but this religion is so full of scientific proofs and it is also a complete way of life.you won't be disappointed if you checked out this religion.

Good luck and keep searching

Yes, John the Baptist was the reincarnation of Elijah.