“Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.” (v. 38)
This account of the “Battle of the gods (God)” is one of my favorite Bible stories. I can see it now though, the scholars of today will say that “this word for ‘water’ did not mean water in the original Hebrew, but it came from an archaic usage for the word kerosene!” That’s how our modern-day “scholars” explain away the miracle’s of God. They would likely go on to say “Everyone knows that water cannot burn”, thereby explaining how this could not have been possible. They do not deny the event, but the miraculous intervention of God in it. The danger in running to the scholars is that we tend to allow “educated idiots” to translate the Bible for us, and something as ridicules as that is the result of it! Elijah had asked for a total of twelve barrels of water to be poured upon the sacrifice, just to show that our God is God, and the God of gods. Now I do not say that I know any scholars that have claimed that, but many of their other claims are as silly when it comes to referring to the Greek or Hebrew. Why we put so much trust in them, I will never know.
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