[Vision2020] Nielsen, Nisbet and Nonsense!

[Chasuk]

On 8/30/05, heirloom at moscow.com <heirloom at moscow.com> wrote:
> Mr. Nielsen asks:
> I also challenged Mr. Nisbet (or anyone else) to show us (who is the
> us...?) one single person in the Tanakh who died and went to heaven. We
> (who is the we..?) are still waiting.

> Matthew answers,
> And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.
> And behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and
> the earth shook and the rocks were split. The tombs were opened, and many
> bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of
> the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared
> to many.

As I'm sure others have already pointed out, the Gospel of Matthew is
not in the Tanakh.  The Tanakh comprises in 24 books what the
Christian Old Testament enumerates as 39 books, but it includes no New
Testament works.  Mr. Nielsen was clearly referring to the Tanakh in
the quoted text.