From The Gospel of God’s Love, page 216.
“The foundation stone of my belief and office was that there is only one God, and He was the God of the Hebrews, and that all other gods (as I then believed) were false gods and should not be worshipped. And when I appeared to Ahab and denounced the gods of Belial, I believed I was performing the duties that my God had imposed upon me, and which were necessary to the cause the turning away of the people from their false gods.
“There are many things related to these writings that never occurred. The one that is often refered to as proof of the superior power of my God over the god of Ba-al, the consuming by fire of the offerings at the alter by God, after the priests had called upon their false god and he neglected to respond, never occurred. It was the result of a desire to emphasize the wonderful power and activity and closeness of God to His prophets. Such an occurrance never took place, and there are many others, relating to the powers that I possessed as a prophet of God, that never happened.
“While I considered myself to be a prophet of God, I never had any of these supernatural powers, nor were any such ever displayed by me, as recorded in the supposed history of my life as a mortal.
“There is another instance to which I desire to refer, and that is my supposed ascention into heaven in a chariot of fire in the presence of Elisha. This is merely a tale well told, but never having any existence in fact. I did not ascend in my physical body, nor did any other mortal – not even the Master. It would be against the laws of God that such a thing could take place, and He never violates His laws for any purpose.
“I died as other mortals died, having with me at that time, friends and relatives, and was buried as was necessary; my physical body has never been resurrected, and never will be. I ascended into the spirit world in my spirit body, as has every other mortal, at their death, since the world of human existence began; and in the future, the spirits of mortals will so continue to ascend, and their physical bodies return to the elements out of which they were composed. Amen