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To: Yet_Again
Yes, the times are really changing. Pseudo-Ephram a 2-3rd Century Bishop of Alexandria preached the Pre-Trib Rapture. I cheated, because I went to Seminary and learned Greek Hebrew and Early Church History.

I currently hold a pan-Tribulation imagery. Have you heard of it?

47 posted on 02/19/2011 11:22:24 PM PST by STD (Stock Up on Precious Metals While You Still Can)
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To: STD

There are far too many problems with the Pseudo-Ephram texts to use these documents as any sort of evidence regarding spiritual matters. For starters, they exist in Greek, Syriac, and Latin, are not the same, and the Latin (8th century text) is not a good translation of either the Greek or Syriac texts (which do not agree with each other). The Syriac text does not support a rapture.

I’ve heard of pan-tribulation, but the longer I study Christianity the more firmly convinced I am that the post-tribulation rapture is what occurs and that Matthew 24:29-31 directly correlates chronologically with Revelation 19:11-21 ...


54 posted on 02/20/2011 6:34:06 AM PST by Yet_Again
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To: STD; Yet_Again
Pseudo-Ephram a 2-3rd Century Bishop of Alexandria preached the Pre-Trib Rapture

There was no 2-3rd Century Bishop of Alexandria named Pseudo-Ephram.

Pseudo-Ephraem is a 7th century tract purported to be written in the style of Ephrem the Syrian who lived in the 4th century. It does not reference a pre-trib rapture. Some futurists interpret it in that fashion.

There was no pre-trib rapture teaching the 2nd/3rd centuries. There was no pre-trib rapture teaching before 1830.

75 posted on 02/23/2011 10:57:22 PM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- an error of Biblical proportions.")
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