Posted on 03/18/2024 6:48:31 PM PDT by Morgana
An Episcopal priest competing in a Jeopardy Tournament failed to advance to the finals, the result of falling badly behind and also being stumped by a question on the New Testament, according to the Episcopal News Service.
David Sibley is the LGBTQ+ affirming rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Walla Walla, Washington, who recently participated in a Jeopardy Tournament.
He previously competed in 2022, where he won $79,098 through four straight episodes. During that contest, he failed to answer a $1000 question: “It’s the ascension heavenward by true Christians both living and dead at Christ’s second coming.”
Rather than a buzz in “What is the rapture,” he let the answer pass him by, later explaining on Reddit:
“Here’s the thing—I don’t believe in the rapture. In fact, most Christians don’t hold the rapture as a doctrine and haven’t for most of church history—the literal reading of Revelation is a product of the modern era, not the patristic era. As written, I thought the clue’s correct response required “Christians” to mean all Christians (or at least all Christians other than tiny splinter groups). It was too late when I got to what they wanted.”
However, he was never in serious contention during this match, with a competitor taking an early insurmountable lead. During ‘Final Jeopardy’ the category was ‘New Testament,’ and the contestants were asked: “This city now in Turkey is the addressee of one of the New Testament epistles & the setting for ‘The Comedy of Errors.'”
Sibley guessed “Corinth,” whereas the correct answer was “What is Ephesus.”
I see it in my Bible. Not called Rapture but believers ascend into heaven. That’s a rapture. Continue on with your Anton LaVeys teachings. And no I’m not a Bible wonk. I dabble. But not an authority. But Bible does mention believers living and dead ascension.
Too bad the Bibical knowledge didn’t touch on the Ten Commandments. Being a follower of Jesus means following, not forgetting, the commandments,
The gay community trys to delude/lie about Jesus in order to make okay their abominable acts. Homosexuals toss out God and the OT.
Gays essentially violate the first Commandment of God’s image or strange God’s.
Because God made man in His image, and that homosexuality is an abomination to God, but the most despised of all of man’s sin is the sexual mistreatment if children. To sexualize a child is too destroy innocence.
You go find Trinity in the Bible.
We can have a race to see who finishes last?
I’m no scholar buti do not believe it is scriptural, and it is not a doctrine promoted by the Catholic Church. And I believe Christ gave the Church the Keys to the Kingdom” which includes it’s teaching authority.
Remember, he promised the apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit to guide them in all Truth. He did not say that that that would apply to all thirty-thousand plus denominations, hence the “New Babel “ which exists today in the Body of Christ. Too many “Teachers” teaching doctrines that tickle their ears. I believe the Rapture isone of those doctrines.
I pray every day for the re-unification Christ’s body into One,Holy.Catholic, and Apostolic Faith.
Sure, he could have said”The Rapture, a doctrine I do not believe in”. His comments indicate he knew perfectly well what it is, as do I.
I’m not defending him, but i think he knows some scripture. He seems to have missed the main point, however....
The rapture is a bogus novelty. No shame in “missing” that.
I see you don’t know what a prelate is. But you’re an expert on eschatology.
Not anymore, it seems.
Corinth is in Greece....been there....the canal is AWESOME!
Here you go:
The term rapture comes from the words “caught up” in 1 Thessalonians 4:17: “Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.”The original text was not in English, and “caught up” can have different translations with the same meaning.Our English word rapture is from the Latin word rapio or raptus, meaning “to snatch up, to seize, or to carry off by force.” When the great scholar Jerome translated the Greek NT into Latin in the 4th century, he translated the Greek word harpazo in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 into the Latin word raeptius. This word was eventually brought into the English as Rapture.
So, while it’s true that the word rapture does not occur in most English translations, 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 and 1 Thessalonians 4:17 clearly contain the concept of a catching away of living believers to meet the Lord.
The rapture could just be well called the “catching away of the church,” “the snatching away of the church,” “the translation of the church,” or “the harpazo of the church.” But “Rapture of the church” is an excellent description and has become the most common title for this event.
More info: https://biblical-christianity.com/a-bible-study-on-the-rapture
What do I win?
I bet he gets all the questions about faggotry correct
Amen!
Here you go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveMgE8H3ow
Moonhawk said:
“Sure, he could have said”The Rapture, a doctrine I do not believe in”. His comments indicate he knew perfectly well what it is, as do I.”
I don’t know what Episcoapals believe but I do know that Catholics/Coptic Christians and Eastern Orthodox Christians don’t believe in the “rapture” the way protestants do.
Yeah, but it would have gone against his beliefs to affirm this!
What was he supposed to say? "What is the 'alleged' Rapture?"
Regards,
Under the teaching authority, what does the Catholic Church tell about the meaning of the passage in the letter to the Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 13 to 18?
All the Bible texts I read, including the Douay-Rheims and the Jerusalem Bible, tell that when Jesus comes back, at that moment all the Christians, dead or alive, will rise up into the clouds to meet him. Isn't that the "Rapture" that a lot of Protestants talk about? The passage seems to imply that only ignorant people are not aware of that going to happen(?).
P. S. I made boo-boo in Post #37. I only meant to underline the word “all”, not the rest of the paragraph. Sorry!
Harpazo…..caught up, snatch away.
That was the answer to the question. It doesn’t matter whether he believes in it or not.
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