coming in the clouds with great power
and glory."[42] "And ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right
hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven."[43] "Verily, verily,
I say unto you, hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of
God ascending and descending on the Son of man."[44]

When Jesus was transfigured and talked with Moses and Elias, he charged
his disciples, saying, "Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man
be risen again from the dead."[45]

According to the creeds based upon the Bible, Jesus rose from the dead,
descended into hell, and ascended bodily into heaven. According to the
gospels he stilled the storm, walked on the water and told Peter to do
so and to find money in a fish's mouth and catch a large draught of
fishes. These and other miracles connected Jesus with God and were part
of his theology.

Every fair-minded person should re-read the gospels and refresh his
memory regarding the theology of Jesus. Then a decision must be reached
as to the correctness of the views expressed. Either conditions on earth
were different in the first century from those of the twentieth, or
Jesus was mistaken in his conception of God, heaven, hell, angels,
devils and himself.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Matt. i; Luke iii.

[2] Luke ii, 22.

[3] John x, 30.

[4] Matt. xi, 27.

[5] Ezek. xiv, 9; Num. xiv, 30-34.

[6] Ex. iii, 21-22.

[7] Deut. xiv, 21.

[8] Num. xxxi et al.

[9] Ex. xxxii, 27.

[10] Deut. vii, 16 et al.

[11] Jer. xix, 9 et al.

[12] Ex. xxii, 18.

[13] Lev. xxv, 44-46.

[14] Deut. xxi, 18-21; xiii, 6-9.

[15] Lev. i, 14-15.

[16] See the Old Testament.

[17] Luke iv, 16.

[18] Matt. xxvi, 63-64.

[19] Mark xv, 61-62.

[20] Luke xxii, 70.

[21] John iv, 25-26.

[22] John iii, 16.

[23] John viii, 24.

[24] Matt. xxv, 31-46.

[25] Mark iii, 29.

[26] Luke xiii, 3.

[27] Mark ix, 43.

[28] Matt. xxiii, 33.

[29] Mark xvi, 16.

[30] Matt. xxvi, 28.

[31] Matt. xxii, 14.

[32] Matt. vii, 14.

[33] Luke xiii, 24.

[34] Luke xxiii, 43.

[35] John xx, 23.

[36] John xiv, 16.

[37] Matt. xxvi, 53.

[38] Matt. xiii, 49.

[39] Matt. viii, 29.

[40] Luke iv, 34.

[41] Mark iii, 11.

[42] Mark xiii, 26.

[43] Mark xiv, 62.

[44] John i, 51.

[45] Matt. xvii, 9.

FALSE IMPRESSIONS

Jesus not only held mistaken ideas about theology, as anyone but a
Fundamentalist must admit, but he often gave impressions about