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The Rapture was not found among Protestants until around the middle of the nineteenth century, when a couple of influential British Protestants invented the idea. It’s not biblical, it was not thought of in the early Church, and Martin Luther never said anything of the kind.


3 posted on 05/21/2016 8:43:47 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
The Rapture was not found among Protestants until around the middle of the nineteenth century, when a couple of influential British Protestants invented the idea. It’s not biblical, it was not thought of in the early Church, and Martin Luther never said anything of the kind.

Well put.

9 posted on 05/21/2016 8:51:26 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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Yep. I’m not very convinced.


11 posted on 05/21/2016 8:56:09 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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True Luther didn’t teach it That s the one area he did not get far Enough away from the Catholic Church Rapture is also present in the OT the first instance is actually in Genesis Enoch and Elijah were raptured quite a bt before the mid 1800s


15 posted on 05/21/2016 9:16:17 AM PDT by Mom MD
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To: Cicero
The Rapture was not found among Protestants until around the middle of the nineteenth century, when a couple of influential British Protestants invented the idea. It’s not biblical, it was not thought of in the early Church, and Martin Luther never said anything of the kind.

That's a bad rumor you guys have been repeating for some time...No fact to it...

But look...The bible's clear...The church will be caught out and up to meed the Lord in the air...So of course there's a Rapture...

127 posted on 05/21/2016 3:32:49 PM PDT by Iscool
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The Rapture was not found among Protestants until around the middle of the nineteenth century, when a couple of influential British Protestants invented the idea. It’s not biblical, it was not thought of in the early Church, and Martin Luther never said anything of the kind.

Absolutely.

312 posted on 05/23/2016 1:04:52 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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The Rapture was not found among Protestants until around the middle of the nineteenth century, when a couple of influential British Protestants invented the idea. It’s not biblical, it was not thought of in the early Church, and Martin Luther never said anything of the kind.

The Plymouth Brethren?

417 posted on 05/24/2016 9:37:43 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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