During a debate, Clark Braden (Church of Christ) argued that
The Mormon God was mistaken again.
Joe, says Book of Doctrine and Covenants, page 112 that it was Elias who
visited Zachariah the father of John. Luke says it was Gabriel. Luke was
mistaken. Joe says that Elijah and Elias visited him at the dedication of the
temple. The ignoramus did not know that the Elijah of the Old Testament, and
the Elias of the New, was one and the same person. (Clark Braden in Public
Discussion of the Issues Between the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints and The Church of Christ [Disciples], Held in Kirtland, Ohio,
Beginning February 12th, and Closing March 8th, 1884 [Lamoni,
Iowa: The Herald Publishing House, 1913], 338)
Edmund Levi Kelley (RLDS) responded thusly:
He objects to the use of the name
Elias and Elijah. Elias is the Greek for Elijah, (Hebrew), and Gabriel is the name
assigned to Elijah as an angel; like it Abram to Abraham. Jacob’s to Israel;
and to the apostles, Jesus assigned new names. There is no contradiction in the
Book of Covenants in the use of the names Elias and Elijah. (Edmund Levi Kelley in ibid., 344)
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