People in the bible and the number of times they died

[jack]

People in the bible	Number of times they died
ElijahA	0
Everyone else	1
LazarusB	2

[A] Edit: Also Enoch (?), Also Mary (according to Catholicism only?)
[B] Edit: Also Widow of Zarephath, also some of http://www.pathlightspress.com/resurrection.html (?)

Comments

[jack]

Yeah, I just thought about that when people started naming other bodily-assumptions. I've decided to go out on a limb and say that Revelations is prophecy that hasn't come true yet so those people won't be taken bodily into heaven YET (if they ever will)

[ptc24]

Hmmm, if you take that approach, then every person in Revelation has to be counted in the zero row, even those that do die (the column says "Number of times they died"). Unless you use the whole issue of prophecy to exclude them from being people in the bible at all.

Also, are the characters in parables people? Perhaps you can say that parables and prophecies etc. are not events that are directly described as having taken place.

[jack]

:) I'm not sure how I describe it, but I think "not people in the bible" has to be how it is.

If I go into a bar, and tell someone about Jesus, and then die, and someone asks "how many people here died", I think you have to say "just me", even if I described someone else dying in the past/future...