[ealgeone]

>>The notion of rapture (a Latin word that means to be snatched away) is a very novel concept among certain (not all) evangelicals. It is a notion less than 150 years old and finds no real support in the biblical text as you point out.<,

So by that criteria, we can then dismiss the unscriptural nonsense about the assumption of Mary which became official church doctrine in 1950.

To which the same argument could be applied to all of the Marian dogmas fostered by the roman catholic church.

[metmom]

Exactly......