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Rapture
Jan 5, 2005 18:14:40 GMT -5
Post by rgrove on Jan 5, 2005 18:14:40 GMT -5
Just curious. Did my views just throw people off here? Or did my rejection of the rapture catch people off guard? I recognize this is possible since it's such a common teaching today. If anyone wants to continue I will be happy to engage the discussion. I'm considering writing a book on my eschatological journey and pondering how exactly I want to format it. Don't know if anyone will want to publish it, but I feel compelled to write things down and see if it makes sense. Writing really forces you to think about what you're saying. Well, having been on enough of these forums let me rephrase... Writing really forces me to think about what I'm saying. So any and all questions are welcome. Prov 27:17 "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." And please don't let the "man" comment in the proverb keep you from answering if you aren't!
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Post by melinky on Jan 6, 2005 9:09:28 GMT -5
Prov 27:17 "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." And please don't let the "man" comment in the proverb keep you from answering if you aren't! I usually read the generalized use of the term "man", as in scripture above, to be referring to man-kind, meaning all people not exclusive to male. For the record, the only board I will not post on in this forum is the "Men of God" ;D I have always accepted the concept of the Rapture as a fact, because that's what I was taught. However, I began to question this last year when I actually read Revelation for myself. I couldn't get past the notion that a lot of what I had been taught were prophecies for the future seemed to have already happened. Then over the summer I read the Left Behind series and felt that the books hit the basics of what would happen fairly accurately. In August, I began co-leading the same 34-week bible study program that I took last year. (It's a Genesis to Revelation study with about 70% of the Bible covered.) As we progressed through the Old Testament, I was once again struck by the fact that a lot of what the Left Behind books referred to as prophecy for the future had already happened. Until the discussions on this forum, I was feeling that my thoughts were way off-base, if not down-right blasphemous. Now, I'll tell you that I'm leaning toward no pre-tribulation rapture of the church, but I have a lot more studying to do. All in all, I don't believe anyone knows for sure and it really doesn't matter to me as long as I'm prepared for whatever God throws my way. If He wants me to live through the Great Tribulation, I will; if He doesn't, I won't. I guess I take a rather Solomon-like approach, it just doesn't matter, what will be, will be. What's important is to do what I know to be right and to learn more about God's will for me. Melinda
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Rapture
Jan 7, 2005 11:09:02 GMT -5
Post by Soulfyre on Jan 7, 2005 11:09:02 GMT -5
I have decided to address this issue in a separate thread, "Dispensationalism and the Rapture", since they are so closely intertwined. I hope it will be a reasonably clear treatment, given that I come, originally, from a dispensational background (although I would probably not, at this point, define myself as a dispensationalist). God bless, Matthew (soulfyre)
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