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To: af_vet_1981
The modern rapture teachings are not laid out from the foundation of the world. They are largely the product of the last two centuries.

Largely but not completely...There are historical records of people seeing the Rapture in scripture eons ago...Not many records...But all that shows is that the records likely have been destroyed...

The fact that millions upon millions of Christians see the Rapture in the scriptures ought to cause you to pause and wonder why...

The reality is that you guys ignore the scriptures that are there that separate the Rapture from the 2nd Coming of Jesus...And when one considers ALL the scriptures and believes them, the Rapture is obvious...

336 posted on 07/29/2016 11:23:28 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

The poster, being a catholic, is still ‘striving to obtain’ that which GOD gives immediately by HIS Grace. So the idea of an immediate snatching away is something such lost folks in owrks based religions (like catholiciism) cannot allow themselves to believe because it instantly refutes their ‘working to obtain’. Don’t expect to open the mind of one so sold out to works for salvation; their egos can’t afford to be wrong even on things that are not essential for salvation, if such endanger their works base.


338 posted on 07/29/2016 11:49:07 AM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: Iscool
Largely but not completely...There are historical records of people seeing the Rapture in scripture eons ago...Not many records...But all that shows is that the records likely have been destroyed...

The fact that millions upon millions of Christians see the Rapture in the scriptures ought to cause you to pause and wonder why...

The reality is that you guys ignore the scriptures that are there that separate the Rapture from the 2nd Coming of Jesus...And when one considers ALL the scriptures and believes them, the Rapture is obvious...
  1. An eon is a unit of time equal to a billion years.
  2. It is necessary axiom that there was some conspiracy to destroy the evidence for the rapture teaching view to prevail. Alternatively, there could be "not many records" because the teaching is not true and was rejected by the orthodox stream of Christians. That would also explain why it is a modern teaching, and not an orthodox Christian teaching.
  3. "millions upon millions" as in a billion, or simply millions, the rapture teaching mushroomed with Hal Lindsay's The Late Great Planet Earth and such popular books. Harold Camping is an example of another promoter of this teaching that cause me to pause and wonder why ...
  4. When one considers ALL the scriptures and believes them, the Rapture is obvious...ly the Second Coming of the Messiah as has been held by the one holy catholic apostolic Church for almost two millenia

    John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

    Revelation, Catholic chapter one, Protestant verses four to seven,
    as authorized, but not authored, by King James


377 posted on 07/29/2016 8:11:43 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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