The Bible-god uses fire again

I had mentioned that most of the time when the Bible-god wanted to impress the people, he used fire to achieve his ends. Such acts can be easily duplicated today with technology.

In Ikings 18, in the story about Elijah, again the Bible-god used fire to prove himself. Elijah was challenging the god Baal.

30 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come here to me." They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD, which was in ruins. 31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Your name shall be Israel." 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed.

33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, "Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood."
34 "Do it again," he said, and they did it again.

"Do it a third time," he ordered, and they did it the third time. 35 The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. 37 Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again."

38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.

Chariots of Fire

Later, Elijah was taken heaven-ward by the Bible-god, and again fire is mentioned.

2 Kings 2
11 As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. 12 Elisha saw this and cried out, "My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!" And Elisha saw him no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them apart.

We can be quite sure that what Elijah was on was a technological vehicle. Why would an almighty god need a chariot? The chariot must have travelled quite a high speed, as it created what looked like a whirlwind. It would have been more convincing if Elijah had been lifted up in thin air, isnt it?

But why horses? Quite likely the author did not recognise it and so used the closest word he could find to describe it. We know today that there is only empty space up there and no heaven. Thus, Elijah must have been brought by some aliens in a spaceship to another planet. Did Elisha see the aliens? He mentioned the horsemen of Israel.