To: aruanan; Iscool
>>He explicitly warned that those who preach such a restrictive, localized, secret return were no agents of his.<<
Except that He doesn’t “return” to earth at the rapture. We leave to meet Him in the air. There is no “localized” and won’t be secret. All who are called away will know as well as all left on earth. The missing people will not go unnoticed though the reason may be denied by most. Don’t confuse the two.
To: CynicalBear; Iscool
Except that He doesn’t “return” to earth at the rapture. We leave to meet Him in the air.
Geez, you're parsing this based on imagery to extricate yourself from a difficulty posed by the doctrine of a pre-trib rapture. You really should look at what the origin of parousia is. If you did, you wouldn't be engaged in this silly, "Oh, but he hasn't actually returned to the Earth because he didn't touch down" punt that has been around since at least the early 1970s. The parousia refers to the practice of people going out of town to meet the visiting ruler and accompanying him back into town for his visitation.
To: CynicalBear; aruanan
>>He explicitly warned that those who preach such a restrictive, localized, secret return were no agents of his.<< Except that He doesn’t “return” to earth at the rapture. We leave to meet Him in the air.
I see:
2,084 posted on
09/08/2011 5:15:22 PM PDT by
MarkBsnr
(I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move m to do so.)
To: CynicalBear; aruanan
>>He explicitly warned that those who preach such a restrictive, localized, secret return were no agents of his.<< Except that He doesn’t “return” to earth at the rapture. We leave to meet Him in the air.
I see:
2,085 posted on
09/08/2011 5:15:22 PM PDT by
MarkBsnr
(I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move m to do so.)
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