The judgment of God is the final act ...indeed there is a judgement of ALL men ...that includes Mary ... who is already in heaven ...so a rapture does not eliminate that .
A rapture simply does not exist except in fantasies, and certainly not in Christian ones. Unless you follow the traditions of men, which most antiCatholics proclaim, yet practice.
Hint: Who came up with this unScriptural idea?
A rapture simply does not exist except in fantasies, and certainly not in Christian ones. Unless you follow the traditions of men, which most antiCatholics proclaim, yet practice.Hint: Who came up with this unScriptural idea?
The rapture, as the catching up of the church to be with the returning Christ in the air, certainly is scriptural.
The Scofield/LaHaye/Lindsay/Left Behind rapture, a secret transporter beam outta here on the nick of capital T Tribulation, involves a lot of creative interpretation, squinting just right, etc. Square theological peg, round scriptural hole. If one can make that work, one can make anything work.
(As an aside, having run temporarily through serious stuff, I'm finally reading the first Left Behind novel. The prose ranges from pedestrian to dire. I read the first page and thought "It was a dark and stormy night..." )
Actually there is more scriptural back up for the rapture than for a sinless Mary 'assumed" into heaven and now her Sons chief advisor and co redeemer .
Personally I am 'pan millennial " ( it will all pan out in the end)
But I can defend the rapture, from scripture better than you can Maryology