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To: PleaseNoMore
I believe the rapture doctrine is one of the most dangerous doctrines ever taught in that it causes Christians to be nonchalant, and unprepared for the things coming on this earth. Instead, they are expecting to mysteriously vanish and suffer nothing when the bible is explicit that Christians will see suffering, and even clearer that those who endure until the end shall be saved.

Also, imagine the confusion and mixed signals it produces in the mind of those who believe that God is not yet finished with physical Israel. We are told the God has a plan for Israel after the flesh that can only be accomplished after the Church is “raptured”. What incentive is there to bring the gospel to Jewish people when they are clearly supposed to be left behind ® and suffer things in the future tribulation period, and then, perhaps, go into the millennium as some special, unified race of people? God forbid that they would get converted to Christ before things heat up and they miss their true calling along with the rest of physical Israel.

82 posted on 01/15/2009 6:25:30 AM PST by topcat54 ("Friends don't let friends become dispensationalists.")
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To: topcat54

Some folks seem to have vast warehouses full of absurdities.

. . . and a cheeky tendency to spread them liberally around.


87 posted on 01/15/2009 3:41:52 PM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: topcat54

Good points.


88 posted on 01/15/2009 3:43:26 PM PST by PleaseNoMore
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