Thats a tradition of man introduced in the 1800s. funning though how the apostle Paul wrote about it 2000 yrs ago .Imagine that
P.S. sorry iam not good at spacing
Show me where Paul said anything about the rapture. The term rapture does not appear in the Bible. Its not there.
Your interpretation of Thes 4:17 does not say rapture. Scofield’s use of the Latin Vulgate to re-interpret “caught up” is a doctrine of devils.
Scofield has done more damage than Luther in leading honest Chrisitians like yourself, away from the true teachings of Christ and His church.
I put you in my Rosary prayers this a.m. I pray continually that all you rapture believers will drop that non-sense and come to the truth. I know you heart is in the right place, but you are being led astray.
Read this article from a pastor of your flavor:
jacksonvilleprogress.com/…100170558.html
The link might not work. So, here’s a cut and paste of it.
Published: April 10, 2007 05:05 pm
Pastor: Rapture teaching a ‘myth’
Special to the Progress
According to popular religious opinion, non-Christians will be “left behind” at the Second Coming of Christ.
“Exactly backwards,” says Jacksonville native and Dallas area pastor Dr. Harold Brunson, Jr.
“Christians, not non-Christians, will be ‘left behind’ at the second coming of Christ. The idea of a secret rapture of the church is just a myth, created about 175 years ago by the British theologian Jon Nelson Darby and popularized in America by the Scofield Bible. Before then, the orthodox church knew nothing of such an absurd idea. But now many, perhaps most conservative Christians have mistakenly embraced that myth.”
That’s just one sensational claim in Dr. Brunson’s new book, Who is Israel? What is a Jew? Where is Jerusalem?
Brunson also says that the reestablishment of Israel as a sovereign nation in 1948 has “no prophetic significance whatsoever.” In fact, Brunson claims, “The terms ‘Israel,’ ‘Jew,’ and ‘Jerusalem’ no longer designate an ethno-centric nation or a geographical location. The writers of the New Testament, especially the Apostle Paul, redefined these terms so as to identify ‘Israel’ as a composite term for all Christians, ‘Jew’ as a reference to the spiritually circumcised, and ‘Jerusalem’ as a heavenly locus to describe the state of grace, not the state of Israel.”
In a mammoth 466-page diatribe, Brunson takes on such formidable theological adversaries as Dallas Theological Seminary, Tim LaHaye, John MacArthur, and Charles Swindoll.
“Those are fine, Christian institutions and individuals,” Brunson says, “they’re just wrong, dead wrong, and they are misleading millions of conservative Christians. Prophecy is a secondary issue among conservative Christians, but when secondary error becomes broadly accepted, it must be challenged head-on. My book does that.”
According to Brunson, who describes himself as “ultra-conservative and reformed,” the contemporary church needs what he calls “a prophetic reformation. The vulnerability of the contemporary church to embrace such a sensationally wrong idea just indicates deeper problems in the church, especially a lack of biblical discernment.”
Dr. Brunson founded and has pastored the First Baptist Church of Parker, Texas, since 1987. He has also served as a college professor, and as an administrator and teacher in Christian schools. A graduate of the BMA Seminary in Jacksonville, Dr. Brunson holds the Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Published by iUniverse (ISBN 978-0-595-41992-0), Dr. Brunson’s book is available through any bookstore.
Dr. Harold Brunson’s book, right.
