The Term “Rapture” First of all, the word “rapture” is found in the Bible, if you have the Latin Vulgate produced by Jerome in the early 400s. The Vulgate was the main Bible of the medieval Western Church until the Reformation. It continues to this day as the primary Latin translation of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet, as we shall see later, it was Protestants who introduced the word “rapture” into the English language from the Latin raeptius.[1] It was Jerome’s Vulgate that translated the original Greek verb harpazo used by Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, in 1 Thessalonians 4:17,
I see this argument frequently. This is all true, but is quite beside the point. It's a smokescreen, to avoid the real question: is the dispensational conception of the taking up, aka "rapture", of the church supported by scripture?
>> This is all true, but is quite beside the point. It’s a smokescreen, to avoid the real question: is the dispensational conception of the taking up, aka “rapture”, of the church supported by scripture?<<
No, it’s exactly on point, a specific answer to a specific question. Time after time preterits will make this deceptive allegation. They’re wrong again.