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The Not So Secret Rapture
reformed.org ^ | W. Fred Rice

Posted on 01/14/2011 5:57:52 PM PST by topcat54

Evangelical book catalogs promote books such as Planet Earth: The Final Chapter, The Great Escape, and the Left Behind series. Bumper stickers warn us that the vehicle’s occupants may disappear at any moment. It is clear that there is a preoccupation with the idea of a secret rapture. Perhaps this has become more pronounced recently due to the expectation of a new millennium and the fears regarding potential Y2K problems. Perhaps psychologically people are especially receptive to the idea of an imminent, secret rapture at the present time. Additionally, many Christians are not aware that any other position relative to the second coming of Jesus Christ exists. Even in Reformed circles there are numerous people reading these books. Many of these people are unaware that this viewpoint conflicts with Scripture and Reformed Theology.

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TOPICS: Theology
KEYWORDS: crusades; endtimes; eschatology; rapture
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To: metmom
"How did such evil men as the top ten corrupt popes manage to get their names on the list of legitimate popes of the Roman church?"

It is the office of the Pope and not any occupant that we hold infallible. It is only Protestants who demand Pope's be without sin.

Catholics are smart enough to know that all are sinners, differing only in degree and repentance. Even the hand picked by Jesus were highly flawed. Judas betrayed Jesus. Peter denied Jesus three times and Thomas doubted Jesus. We do not expect any better from those who seek only to serve Him.

501 posted on 01/17/2011 4:27:49 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law

some will keep their eyes on the Popes, let’s keep our firmly fixed on Jesus!


502 posted on 01/17/2011 4:32:11 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
As far as being able to find the pretribulation rapture in the Bible, we don’t need to be rocket scientists to discover it. For me, locating the rapture doctrine in the Bible was as simple as finding evidence that Jesus Christ is Messiah.

So true...One has to Allegorize the book of Revelation or claim the events already took place in order to miss the Rapture in the book of Revelation...

The evidence that Christians believed in the rapture long before MacDonald does not seem to have sunk into the minds of those opposed to the rapture. They still teach that she is the founder of pretribulationism. When someone is presented with overwhelming proof that he or she is wrong and refuses to accept that truth, then we certainly may conclude that he or she is in spiritual darkness.

The events of the Rapture have always been in the scripture...Obviously the Catholic religion has been teaching against the Rapture for centuries...And what is it they teach??? They say, 'don't believe it literally'...And the children follow the piper...

503 posted on 01/17/2011 4:51:21 PM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
The Church has held these traditions because they received them from the Apostles and were instructed to!!

Again, would you validate your ridiculous claim by providing the traditions that Paul passed on outside of scripture???

Or are you just blowing bubbles again???

504 posted on 01/17/2011 4:55:36 PM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool

They teach Jesus will have one second coming, not a secret one and then a seven year wait. And when He comes for the second time, we will be caught up with Him and it will be Judgement Day. Those in the Body of Christ will be saved, those not in Christ will be damned! Pretty simple.


505 posted on 01/17/2011 4:56:58 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: Iscool

take a crack at post #492, what “sola scriptura” position is right?


506 posted on 01/17/2011 4:58:26 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism; Amityschild; Brad's Gramma; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; ...

NOPE.

Been there. Done enough of that.

Perhaps you can beg such research services from others who care to bother. I don’t.

Your assertions come across as disingenuous, farcical, UNhistorical, UNBiblical, irrational, heretical, obtuse, hypocritical, outrageous, brazen, uninformed, shallow, . . . and probably were born waddling around in funny hats in the syllable stage before they even matured into words, phrases or sentences. I still don’t think they have matured into logical, coherent paragraphs.

Those who wish to tilt at such rickety windmills are welcome to. Beyond occasionally toying with them, I don’t care to.


507 posted on 01/17/2011 5:06:01 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix

what do you say about post #492? care to share the biblical postion with us?


508 posted on 01/17/2011 5:07:34 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
"what do you say about post #492?"

You really don't want to go there unless you have a fondness for multicolored gibberish, kook science and tired old recycled pictures of himself and his livestock.

509 posted on 01/17/2011 5:10:43 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

Infant baptism for regeneration came from Augustine.


510 posted on 01/17/2011 5:12:08 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Quix
"Those who wish to tilt at such rickety windmills are welcome to."

I'll bet Sancho Panza told you that too.

511 posted on 01/17/2011 5:13:01 PM PST by Natural Law
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To: aruanan

so St Iraneus received his teaching from Augustine, who lived 200 years after he did, rather than from Polycarp thru St John? OK, One for the Baptists, and i guess Luther and Calvin didn’t understand the Bible, so zero for the Lutherans.


512 posted on 01/17/2011 5:17:22 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
One for the Baptists, and i guess Luther and Calvin didn’t understand the Bible, so zero for the Lutherans.

Virtually everything distinctively Calvin was first distinctively Augustinian.
513 posted on 01/17/2011 5:19:40 PM PST by aruanan
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To: aruanan

Calvin did twist The Doctor of Grace’s teaching, but sorry, infant baptism didn’t come from St Augustine, but St Paul.


514 posted on 01/17/2011 5:24:18 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism; Iscool; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; ...
All the Church Fathers say the Church received the practice of baptizing infants from the Apostles, but there is not a verse explicitly saying so.

They say, eh?

And how do you know this? What are your sources? You know for sure that this was passed down from Paul? That this was one of the traditions to which he was referring?

Is infant baptism correct or not? You don’t know, you by yourself can’t know, unless you believe yourself infallible!! I can get a Lutheran say yes, a Baptist says no! Both will claim to follow “sola scriptura” no friend, Jesus is not the author of confusion, He left us a Church to teach!!

Which one? The Roman rite or the EO? Or maybe the Ukrainian Catholic? Perhaps the Russian orthodox?

What about Alexandrian? Syriac?

Or the Maronite or Chaldean?

Which Catholic rite is it exactly which holds the truth as passed down by the apostles and how do you know?

515 posted on 01/17/2011 5:25:06 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

#492? come on, heads or tails! ( currently baptists 1 lutherans 0 )


516 posted on 01/17/2011 5:26:55 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: metmom

i thought you were Catholic? don’t you know all the Catholic rites are Catholic? now try #492.


517 posted on 01/17/2011 5:27:54 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: Natural Law

Are those corrupt, immoral popes in heaven?

Without the works to get them there?

How does that work?


518 posted on 01/17/2011 5:28:40 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

Some rites don’t recognize the authority of the pope.

How does that work?

If God is not the author of confusion, then what happened here?

http://www.catholic.com/library/Eastern_Orthodoxy.asp


519 posted on 01/17/2011 5:40:42 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

I did respond to it. Do you need reading comprehension lessons?


520 posted on 01/17/2011 5:41:41 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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