Predestination is misunderstood...

Some will want to attack the teaching of the Rapture because it gives comfort to those who Jesus loves.

They will keep trying as a result of developing a form of mental illness that might be classified as spiritual psychosis.

And some learned and very hard-working and faithful Christians disagree that the rapture is accurate teaching and think that it is harmful to the Faith.

I've heard this argument before but I fail to see how it is harmful. People fail in prosperity as much, if not more, than they fail in persecution.

It's God's basic MO to remove His people from judgment (Noah from the flood, lot from Sodom), how can that be harmful?

I've heard this argument before but I fail to see how it is harmful. People fail in prosperity as much, if not more, than they fail in persecution.

It's God's basic MO to remove His people from judgment (Noah from the flood, lot from Sodom), how can that be harmful?

Yes, some also see it as you do. And, yes, I agree with you that people fail in all times.

One man and his family being removed in each of the above events doesn't seem to bode too well for the Church and the rapture, but I understand how you're using the example.

Are you expecting the rapture? Soon?

Noah went through the Flood and Lot suffered loss but escaped physical harm but fear overcame him and he hid in the cave of the mountain.
Not sure how that equates to being removed but still having to experience the trauma and trial at hand.

Noah was taken out of the flood and placed in the Ark and Lot was taken out of Sodom. The resurrection of the Church is not about being removed from suffering, it is about being removed from God's judgement.

Noah went through the Flood and Lot suffered loss but escaped physical harm but fear overcame him and he hid in the cave of the mountain.
Not sure how that equates to being removed but still having to experience the trauma and trial at hand.

But they still went through it and experienced it even in a safe means.

And some learned and very hard-working and faithful Christians disagree that the rapture is accurate teaching and think that it is harmful to the Faith.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

The Ark and Noah went through the Rain, not above it.

Rain does not kill you.

Floods do...

Why did I have to tell you that?

Rain caused people to drown and created the floods.
You clearly downplay the rain for your own personal doctrine that is literally less than 200 years old and goes against 1800 years of Church History including written accounts from the Author of Revelation own Disciples (Church Fathers).

Oh boy... here we go!

Have fun.....

We will just agree to disagree

It's not as if we would agree on everything all of the time.

You haven't told me why you see it as harmful to the faith.

How can they be faithful if they work hard to justify a false teaching when they should know better if they truly were qualified to study God's Word? Dr. Bart Ehrman is a very hard working scholar.... Hard work alone does not have to equate itself with integrity.

Satan has his recruited agents working hard. Some even possessing genius IQ.

Those who teach false doctrine are the first to strongly condemn false teachers.... Irony.
They will leave their trail of irony droppings that one must be careful to keep their own sandals off of.

Why do some feel an affinity for false teachings?
And, God does not stop them?

So, God can weed their intentions.
To be out in the open and clearly seen without denial on their part.

Why?

It makes the Evaluation of the Saints to go smoothly without any more appeals for a retrial.

The reason we see the mess we have been deployed into is because of Satan's Appeal trial that God
granted him. Granted because of the knowledge that needed to first be made known before the sentence
could not be argued any more.

That is why we are presently caught in the spiritual crossfire between the powers of darkness
and our Defense Attorney Jesus Christ.

“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first." John 15:18

Some will want to attack the teaching of the Rapture because it gives comfort to those who Jesus loves.
Satan hates Jesus, and wants to hurt Jesus by proxy by making those whom the Lord loves to be miserable.

Demons scout out among carnal believers and unbelievers those whom will feel one with their demonic
resentment of the beauty of God's plan. They will become proud agents of spreading false doctrine as to
try to hurt the Lord by proxy.

When anyone defends sound doctrinal thinking? That one will receive hatred they harbor in their hearts for the Lord.
For he became the word of God made flesh!

The more sound doctrine we have in our possession?
And is being lived out in our life?
The more their hatred for the Lord must seep out sent in our direction.....

That negative realty grants us an even greater opportunity for more understanding by grace to become more and more
transformed in our souls to manifest His thinking...

Its the plan. False doctrine is the result as an attempt to thwart the plan they can not stop.

They Hate the Lord because they know they can not win. In spite of that reality?
They will keep trying as a result of developing a form of mental illness that might be classified as spiritual psychosis.

Enjoy the ride! !

It fascinates me how once settled into a certain eschatological belief system, we can speak with such conviction of all other interpretations as false teaching and satanic. With reason I doubt that many of us can even explain the other schools of thought and why they are right or wrong. Saying they're satanic is easy.