"I have always wondered what is the CoC position on the sounding of the trumpet when Christ returns."
We believe that it will be the sounding of a trumpet. Why should we believe otherwise?
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I wasn't trying to be a smart aleck. But wouldn't that go against what the CoC believes? The reason I ask, I am a Baptist. I think churches, including the Baptist Church, sometimes in trying to be obedient, take the Bible out of context. For example most churches believe that taking a drink is wrong. My consesus is that Paul talks about taking a little wine for the sake of the stomach. In other words wine is good for stomach ailments. He also said that wine cheers the heart of man. Now I know the Baptist church believes the the biblical wine was simply grape juice. I've never had my heart cheered by grape juice, I can tell you that. I contend that they are wrong. There are far too many references in the Bible about TOO MUCH wine being sinful. Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding. The guests were astonished afterward because the host saved his best wine for last, which was usually served first. I take that to mean that as the guests began to get a snootful, meaning alcohol, they didn't notice that the wine wasn't as good, hence their surprise that the last wine was so good. I believe Jesus preached that drunkeness is a sin. I just think that some of the rules that the churches have are sort of like the Pharisees, too many man made rules. Such as women preachers. Most churches think there is nothing wrong with that yet the Bible does say that women are to keep silent in church and if you read Pauls statements about that, I believe it was to keep down a bunch of bickering from the women in church. But anyhow it says if women have a question they are to ask their husbands after they leave the church. But yet most churches have these meaningless rules that they adhere to but yet ignore something that Paul said is wrong. And Pauls writings were divinely inspired.