[William Terrell]

When you think about it, the pre-tribulation rapture is about saving bodies from pain. Bodies are material and temporary. God has never spared those He loved from physical pain. Matter of fact, He has used pain to temper and prepare.

God doesn't give a crap about bodies. Pre-tribulation rapture makes no sense spiritually.

[Cvengr]

"God doesn't give a crap about bodies. Pre-tribulation rapture makes no sense spiritually."

I've found the opposite to be true on both accounts.

God cares even about the little sparrow and how it is provided for in its body. He still has scars from the Cross in His eternal body of the Son. The body of the Son though followed the will of the Son to remain true to the Father.

In regards to the spirit, the pretrib rapture makes very much sense if the Holy Spirit no longer indwells the believer during the Great Tribulation.

[Quix]

Actually, God is evidently going to go to considerable lengths to . . .

RESURRECT . . .

our . . .

bodies.

Yes, the Spirit and human spirit are often Biblically cast as infinitely beyond “the flesh.”

But, I don’t think the emphasis of the GREAT SNATCH is on our bodies, per se.

The emphasis is on BEING UNITED WITH CHRIST . . . WHOLESALE . . . even bodily.

There is a Biblical reality to THE GREAT SNATCH.

The only issues are . . . timing . . . and perhaps . . . who will get snatched.