Since you used my post to respond to "phoneman", and then said:
"Moses and Elijah were raised for this special work of strengthening Christ and to this day they await the resurrection", I suggest that you HEAR the words of Jesus, and not your own speculation of understanding.
This thread is getting more and more wild by the minute. Let Jesus be the "guide", and not the doctrines of men by "church-ianity".
I repost again:
As for Enoch, Elijah or Moses, Jesus said the truth about their whereabouts:
John.3[
13] And
no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
BTW, in the KJV-OT scriptures, the word "paradise" is not found.
Moses and Elijah, and whoever else was of faith in Messiah to come, of the OT., NEVER were able or allowed to receive the permanency of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. The only place that any of them were ever of anything, was just a name written in God's "
book of Remembrance" in Malachi 3:16. None of them (though dead) received "the Promise"
until Pentecost.
All of such are shown in Revelation 6:9-11 as being
figuratively "under the altar", being given "white robes", aka the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
By the way, the word "altar" is in reference to Malachi 3:16. Altars were erected by men, for places, people and/or events that were to be
remembered.