[Partisan Gunslinger]

Find the Greek word ‘apostasia’. The resource es are available ont he net. I’ll give you a link: http://biblehub.com/web/2_thessalonians/2.htm in verse three. The World English Bible is a very good English rendering from the oldest manuscripts available in our epoch.

A falling away, okay. Yeah, the falling away isn't the rapture but it's the implementation of Godlessness in our society. You have to agree it gets worse every year with homosexuality and other abominations going mainstream and the government making Christianity illegal in a lot of instances.

[MHGinTN]

The following Bibles either used a Latin word meaning departure (the 4th century Latin Vulgate), or an English evrsion using the word departure, as in THE DEparture:

1384 Wycliffe Bible
1388 Wycliffe-Prvey Bible
1526 Tyndale Bible
1535 Cloverdale Bible
1539 Cranmer Bible
1540 Geneva Bible
1576 Breeches Bible

the 1582 Rhiems Bible used revolt

1583Beza Bible used departing, as in The Departing
1608 Geneva Bible used THE Departing
1611 King James changed the Rheims rendering to 'falling away'