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To: Ultra Sonic 007
The Council of Ephesus (431) denounced it as “a deviation and a fable.” It was denounced again in 1516 at the Fifth Lateran Council.

Your author goes on at length, about the origin of Protestant beliefs regarding the rapture being less than 200 years old. Odd, then, that denunciation would have occurred in 431, and again in 1516.

It would appear that the learned Mr. Guinan has destroyed his own argument, here.

336 posted on 02/28/2010 6:43:25 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry; aruanan

What Mr. Guinan is referring to is the idea of ‘premillenialism’, which was about long before the ideas of the Rapture were formulated in the 1800s.

Rapture has its roots in premillenialism, a doctrine that has long been rejected by the Church.

Though to be fair, he could have made a better distinction between the Rapture and ‘historic premillenialism’.


373 posted on 02/28/2010 11:34:31 AM PST by Ultra Sonic 007 (To view the FR@Alabama ping list, click on my profile!)
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