I believe God wants us to look at the Bible as a historical and accurate record of past events. It is also valuable to use our imagination to help events to become real to us. A good example of this is in 2 Kings 13:21. There are actually two ways to look at this miracle:
1. Neighbors were carrying a dead body of a man to the grave, and, fearing to fall into the hands of the Moabites, they laid the corpse in the next convenient place, which proved to be Elisha's sepulchre. The dead man, upon touching Elisha's bones, revived, and, it is likely, went home again with his friends.
2. Josephus relates the story otherwise, That some thieves, having robbed and murdered an honest traveler, threw his dead body into Elisha's grave, and it immediately revived.
Both accounts give us reason to chuckle.
Imagine the joy and fear of the friends when the body stood. Touching a dead body for the Jew made them unclean. So were they unclean when the dead body was breathing and standing next to them? Was the dead/living man unclean?
If it was thieves disposing of a body after murder and the killed one stood up the thieves probably fled in terror.
I hope the LORD of Creation has an instant replay feature in eternity. Either was it is pretty funny.
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