It happened a long time ago.
Posted on 03/24/2017 6:17:19 PM PDT by amessenger4god
If you were to die tonight would you go to Heaven?
Why should God let you into His Heaven?
The only acceptable answer to question 2 is because I believe Jesus died for my sins and that I follow Him.
Amen
Neither does 'bible'...So the bible doesn't exist...And neither does Catholic...So Catholicism doesn't exist...
It happened a long time ago.
“iscool” isn’t in there either, so you don’t exist. So why the hell am I wasting my time talking to a nobody like you?
J/K
CC
Nobody. Enjoy your life and live it according to Christian and Buddhist principles. Die when it is time.
People should focus on building the best life they can instead of focusing on apocalyptic scenarios.
The trend that you’re pursuing is worrisome since the word pizza doesn’t appear there either.
Salvation and Redemption are not and cannot be “earned.”
For what was the Christ, the Very Son of God, crucified and sacificed? So that we could delude ourselves into believe that we can (i.e.,are able to) and must “earn” our salvation and redemption? This amount to a gross putdown of the gift of rational thought, granted especially and broadly, although evidently not exclusively, to mankind.
>>> Got a chapter and verse to look up?
The Greek word from this term “rapture” is derived appears in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, translated “caught up.” The Latin translation of this verse used the word rapturo. The Greek word it translates is harpazo, which means to snatch or take away. Elsewhere it is used to describe how the Spirit caught up Philip near Gaza and brought him to Caesarea (Acts 8:39) and to describe Paul’s experience of being caught up into the third heaven (2 Cor. 12:2-4). Thus there can be no doubt that the word is used in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 to indicate the actual removal of people from earth to heaven.
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Yes, it does. The Greek text uses words which translate as "gather", "catch up", and "reap". (We get "rapture" from the Latin translation of "catch up". See 1 Thess 4 below).
(Matthew 24:31) And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
(Mark 13:27) And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
(1 Thess 4:16-17) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [rapiemur] together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
(Revelation 14:14-16) Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was one like a son of man, having a golden crown on His head and a sharp sickle in His hand. And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, “Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.” Then He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
The preterist view of the rapture is, IMO, the most biblical:
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When will Jesus appear/return? IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION! !!!!
The Coming of the Son of Man
Mat 24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
1 Thess. 4:16,17 says you are wrong.
1 Cor 15.
36 You fool, that which you sow is not quickened, except it die:
The entire chapter of 1 Cor 15 contradicts the rapture theory.
Yes, it does. The Greek text uses words which translate as “gather”, “catch up”, and “reap”. (We get “rapture” from the Latin translation of “catch up”. See 1 Thess 4 below).
This is all explained in 1 Cor 15, most of the chapter in opposition to the one short scripture 1 Thess 4:17
those who think they will be “raptured” are probably the most hypocritical and shallow phonies around...
1 Cor 15
36 You fool, that which you sow is not quickened, except it die:
50 Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
Real Christians saved by the Grace of God and belief in Jesus Christ will soon be gone.
We hope you join us in this great gathering in the clouds to be forever with the Lord!
John 14:3
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and WE SHALL BE CHANGED. 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality,
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