The Apostle Paul writes about an out-of-body experience. In his epistle to the Corinthians, we read:

"I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago-whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows--such a man was caught up to the third heaven. And I know how such a man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows--was caught up into Paradise, and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak" (2 Cor. 12:2-4).

Paul then reveals that he received a revelation from God during this experience and notes the importance of being humble.

"Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me--to keep me from exalting myself" (2 Cor. 12:7).

The Apostle Paul apparently received this revelation through an out-of-body experience.

Are other examples of out-of-body experiences recorded in the Bible? The inference in Revelation 4:1 is that the Apostle John may also have had an out-of-body experience in receiving the book of Revelation.

"After these things, I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after these things" (Rev. 4:1).

In the Old Testament, we find the examples of Enoch and Elijah, who according to the biblical story never tasted of death but were taken to heaven by God. Could Enoch and Elijah have had an out-of-body experience? These stories may relate the possibility of at least four recorded biblical stories involving out-of-body experiences.