[CS-FSLUG] Rapture argument.

[Christopher Rose]

I wrote this a few years ago, it is my take on the topic of the "rapture". Incidentally, I find that doctrine bordering on heresy.

http://kf6snj.tripod.com/rapture.html


have fun.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com>
To: "CS-LUG" <Christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: [CS-FSLUG] Rapture argument.
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:10:16 -0400

> 
> I sent both sites from "the other side" to my brother, who I knew would
> respond with some details I might not have, and he did. ;) He's also a SUSE
> user. I helped him with an 8.? install sometime ago over the phone, and the
> box has been running FLAWLESSLY since.
> 
> Fred
> 
> Both of these guys avoid the real issue: Scripture says Christ will come again
> ONCE, not TWICE. Therefore, there cannot be any "rapture." Without a
> Scriptural basis, what they have written are empty words.
> 
> Since there is no Scriptural basis for the "rapture" theory, Blue attempts to
> "spin" a historical basis for it (beyond Darby and Scofield) by fiddling with
> the definition of "dispensationalism" and then conjuring up some supposedly
> "dispensational" beliefs of the early Church Fathers by citing somebody
> else's OPINION of what the early Church Fathers believed. Opinions are like
> belly buttons--everyone has one. We don't need to rely on someone else's
> opinion about what the early Church Fathers believed because they wrote
> extensively about their beliefs and their writings are collected in the ten
> volumes of "The Ante-Nicene Fathers." Blue cites another dispensationalist's
> opinion because that's the only support he could find for his theory--the
> early Church Fathers did NOT believe in the "rapture" theory or
> "dispensationalism," which is very clear from their condemnation of the
> heresy of "millenialism" at the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D. and their
> statement of belief at the Councel of Nicæa in 325 A.D., which is known as
> the Nicene Creed:
> 
> He will come again in glory
> to judge the living and the dead,
> and his kingdom will have no end.
> 
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