No rapture? There is no doubt a rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 whatever you wish to call it. Rapture, catching away of the church. Its there:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
I looked it up on biblehub and all translations agree. There is a rapture. It says CAUGHT UP in the clouds. If that's not a rapture or catching up, I don't know what else it can be.
Do you want to explain that first point? NO RAPTURE?
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
I looked it up on biblehub and all translations agree. There is a rapture. It says CAUGHT UP in the clouds. If that's not a rapture or catching up, I don't know what else it can be.
Do you want to explain that first point? NO RAPTURE?
So tell me where the word “rapture” is in the Bible? I can’t find it anywhere! Harpazio is a verb, rapture is a noun. Even if you want to include 1 Thess. 4:17, that is only one example. Sorry, bad hermeneutics to make a doctrine out of one verse.
As for the verses in the gospels about one taken, one not- read them carefully. Sometimes the saved person is taken, sometimes it is the unsaved person. Sorry, I’m on my phone, no access to the exact verses.
If this doctrine was so important, because dispensationalism rests on it, why wouldn’t it be all over the Bible? Like the cross is, in the doctrine of the atonement? Or salvation by grace through faith, in soteriology?
Talk about majoring in minors!
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