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I am building on a previous question located here.
I am not satisfied with the answers to the question and want to ask specifically if the text describing the manner in which Enoch and Elijah went to heaven are actually different than how Jesus went to heaven?
My thought was this – John 3:13 specifically says ‘ascended’. Enoch and Elijah were taken up. Doesn’t the word ‘ascended’ imply that Jesus himself earned his way or by his own power took himself to heaven? While on the surface it appears to be a contradiction between the New and Old testament that in fact Jesus is the only being to ascend (by his own power) into heaven?
Do Hebrew or Greek text support this concept, or is it just me forcing my own thoughts into the explanation?
Reference Text:
John 3:13-14 (KJV) (Jesus said) “And no man hath ascended up to
heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which
is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of man be lifted up:”Gen 5:22-24 (KJV) And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah
three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: 23 And all the days
of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24 And Enoch walked
with God: and he was not; for God took him.2 Kings 2:11 (KJV) And it came to pass, as they still went on, and
talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of
fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind
into heaven.
