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1 | Rapture - Bodies or souls disappear? | Matt 24:27 | jg8ball | 604 | ||
Do you believe that when the rapture takes place, our bodies will disappear (as depicted in the "Left Behind" series and similar books and movies) or could it be just our souls leave our bodies? | ||||||
2 | Rapture - Bodies or souls disappear? | Matt 24:27 | jatcat | 605 | ||
Where in the Bible is the rapture theory even substantiated? Read 1Thess. 4:15-17. Christ's coming is not secret- the Bible describes it as loud, and bright. "even as the lightning shines from the east to the west, even so shall the coming of the Son of Man be." The "secret rapture" is fiction. | ||||||
3 | rapture question | Matt 24:27 | jg8ball | 631 | ||
I don't understand your response. Who said anything about a "secret rapture"? As far as where the rapture theory is substantiated - look at the verses you referenced. In verse 17, "...we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." How then do you interpret this if not the rapture? Assuming there is a rapture then, I'm not sure where it mentions that our bodies will disappear (or be taken up) as is commonly portrayed versus our souls will be taken up - leaving our empty vessels here on earth. |
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4 | rapture question | Matt 24:27 | bobmoy | 644 | ||
The coming of the Son of Man can be an individual experience in each of our spiritual journeys as well as a collective experience near the end of the age. My "ratpure" took place 18 years after I was "born again." My raputre marked the understanding that I can love God, myself, my neighbors and my enemies unconditionally and that I can lay down my life for my Savior, Lord, Master, Friend and King, Jesus the Christ. When I am willing to give up total control to my Lord and do his will and even die for Him, I am "raptured" out of this world. Iam now in the world but not of the world. I am raptured. I love without conditions. I love sacrificially. I belong completely to God. | ||||||
5 | rapture question | Matt 24:27 | kalos | 662 | ||
You write: "The coming of the Son of Man can be an individual experience in each of our spiritual journeys as well as a collective experience near the end of the age." No, it can't. Your answer is more poetic than scriptural. In all the Bible teaching on the doctrine of the rapture, there is one and only one rapture, one event as described in 1 Thess 4:13-18. I am sincerely glad for the spiritual experiences you've had. God is the God of experience and emotions sometimes are a part of our experience. But to say that there is more than one rapture could mislead babes in Christ or seekers, who are new to the church and the Scriptures. | ||||||
6 | rapture question | Matt 24:27 | bobmoy | 695 | ||
One of the levels that the Book of Revelation that the Holy Spirit reveals to those of us who have the spiritual gift of wisdom and apply the understanding of love to the analysis is that the book can be viewed as a story of the spiritual journey that we take as we "see" the Kingdom of God when we are born again and then proceed to "enter" the Kingdom of God as we evole into the spiritual beings that God wants us to be. Thus the "seven" churches are places on our own individual path to perfect love that we can overcome if we understand what each obstacle is. | ||||||
7 | rapture question | Matt 24:27 | kalos | 697 | ||
"Avoid spiritualizing or allegorizing the Bible. This is that which gives to the Bible some kind of mystical meaning. In other words, what is on the surface is not the meaning, but what is hidden becomes the meaning. This is very popular. Allegorizing means to say that the historical meaning is not the real meaning, and in fact may be nothing but a fabrication. The historical meaning is not the real meaning, the real meaning is the spiritual meaning hidden beneath the surface. . . . And once you say that something in the Bible is an allegory, that is it is only a symbol of the reality, you have just made it impossible to know what that reality is because if that reality cannot be discerned through the normal understanding of language, how can it be discerned?" . . . (from the radio message: "How to Study Your Bible: Interpretation" by John MacArthur on Grace to You broadcast) |
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