Was Jesus practicing necromancy by talking with the long-dead Moses and Elijah in Matthew 17:3?

Question

http://bible.cc/matthew/17-3.htm

Thanks, cynical; you are so sweet!

Answer 1

Obviously not. Maybe someday fundamentalists will read the whole Bible and not just the parts they like to use. Peace be with you

Answer 2

Meg: Jesus was showing the disciples with Him, an illustration of the future of the resurrection from the dead, awaiting them. Moses and Elijah were only a glimpse into the future for these disciples to ponder over. Necromancy is a word which means: necro = "death" or "dead" and mancy = "relationship" like in romance. No Jesus was not romancing the dead but Jesus came to save life , as depicted by His giving them a taste of what it would be like in the resurrection FROM the dead [ life] !!!

Answer 3

I have always suspected that when he raised the dead. Necromancy is not talking to the dead. It is raising the dead.

"…he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth… Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him. But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done" (Jn. 11:43-46)

Answer 4

It ability Moses and Elijah may be useless in actual form in the transfiguration with Jesus Christ on the mountain which communicate about that Jesus who replaced into born from the spirit and the flesh joins with them. The ingenious and prescient tells us that the flesh may be corrupted yet our spirits will live on. there is existence after lack of life and those 3 tremendous and remarkable adult men in historic previous tells a actuality about existence after lack of life. That their lives should be emulated to achieve immortality. we are created immortals yet sin corrupt us . we've options to make , at the same time as Jesus informed the three disciples to stay conscious yet they experience very sleepy. the photograph replaced into there very undemanding and straightforward that we stay in the flesh and the spirit . lack of life will come without note in the route of us , so we should be conscious and get ourselves waiting for that eternal existence that Jesus promise us by ability of handing over us by lack of life and sin to have get correct of entry to in heaven. Jesus replaced into alive and Moses and Elijah replaced into with Jesus in the mount of transfiguration does it recommend that Moses body replaced into taken to heaven basically as Elijah and Jesus did? the reason why devil and an angel are disputing over his body? Elijah replaced into taken to heaven by ability of a chariot of hearth , Jesus by ascension and there are information in the time of historic previous about uncorrupted body of the saints.

Answer 5

Meg Michaels, you're splendid. Never have I seen such a defender of the Catholic faith and it pleases me to see all the evidence you have to back it up. That passages proves that praying for the dead is bibilical and not pagan.

Answer 6

No. They were not spirits of the dead. Moses had been resurrected by an angel and taken to heaven, and Elijah was transfigured before he died. They were real people with incorruptible bodies. There is no such thing as an eternal spirit.

Answer 7

Technically, yes. Communicating with the dead would fit the definition.

Also when he raised Lazurus from the dead but probably not when he himself was raised in a new perfected and transcendent state.

Answer 8

No. Necromancy is using the spirit for your own bidding and calling them. I don't think that Jesus called them and He certainly did USE them.

Answer 9

Not to mention several cases of raising other dead people.

Answer 10

I would think not....because he was considered to be talking to their spirits and not there "dead" body's.