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To: SkyDancer; MHGinTN
And of course you do know the word "Rapture" isn't in the Bible.

Actually, that isn't quite true. The word "rapture" comes from the Latin word in the Vulgate. The term "rapture" is derived from the text of the Latin Vulgate of 1 Thess. 4:17—"we will be caught up", (Latin: rapiemur). In the Greek the word is "harpazo (ἁρπάζω)", meaning to snatch away or seize. The English word is "rapture" and the idea didn't just come out of nowhere. There is a solid Scriptural basis for the teaching.

130 posted on 07/03/2019 12:19:55 PM PDT by boatbums (semper reformanda secundum verbum dei)
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To: boatbums

The word “Rapture” itself is not in the Bible - caught up, yes but not the word “Rapture”. You can do a search on pro-tribulation rapture and against a pre-tribulation rapture and come up with scores of proof either way. If you believe then you believe, if you don’t, you don’t.


131 posted on 07/03/2019 12:45:41 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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