tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post2561957267376798..comments2023-10-07T09:34:47.507-05:00Comments on Aggie Catholics: The Rapture and the Catholic ChurchMarcelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18121158394600137195noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post-71138445184096873552010-09-14T13:27:40.415-05:002010-09-14T13:27:40.415-05:00Sr. Lynn - While it is based on Scripture, it is b...Sr. Lynn - While it is based on Scripture, it is based on faulty interpretations of Scripture.<br /><br />The passage you refer to is a promise that God will draw the saved into heaven. In context, Jesus compares the end times to Noah's times, where Noah and his family were saved and all others were left to face the consequences of their actions. So it will be at the end of the world.Marcelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18121158394600137195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post-57557670768648295002010-09-14T12:44:32.934-05:002010-09-14T12:44:32.934-05:00I do not believe in the rapture but to make of the...I do not believe in the rapture but to make of the Gospel of Matthew 24:36-42?<br />"one will be taken up and the other left?"<br /><br />It seems like their theory is loosely based on Scripture? No?Sister Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08751109288707713105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post-68830345998815713882009-10-13T18:22:36.439-05:002009-10-13T18:22:36.439-05:00The reference to those who have fallen asleep is t...The reference to those who have fallen asleep is to those who died, having lived a good and holy life, prior the act of redemption for the souls of man which is acknowledged by faith. Yes, there will be a second coming of the Lord. No, there is absolutely nothing in the Bible which states that Christ will come a third time. Hence, the new "rapture" theory is out the window. The "rapture" is not alluded to in any of Jesus' discourses in the Bible, in particularly it is not mentioned in Revelation as so many erroneously claim.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15130405626331511760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post-40599015023807009372009-06-23T09:27:55.113-05:002009-06-23T09:27:55.113-05:00Below is 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 in both the King ...Below is 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 in both the King James Version (KJV) and The New American Bible (NAB). They are virtually the same in wording and are the scriptures in the Bible that explain the "Rapture" or "Rapiemur" in the Latin Vulgate. The word rapture stems from the Latin word rapiemur:<br /><br />1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 King James Version (KJV)<br /><br />14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.<br />---------------------------------------------<br />1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 New American Bible (NAB)<br /><br />14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose, so too will God, through Jesus, bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15. Indeed, we tell you this, on the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, [3] will surely not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16. For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together [4] with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18. Therefore, console one another with these words.<br />____________<br /><br />3 [15] Coming of the Lord: Paul here assumes that the second coming, or parousia, will occur within his own lifetime but insists that the time or season is unknown (1 Thes 5:1-2). Nevertheless, the most important aspect of the parousia for him was the fulfillment of union with Christ. His pastoral exhortation focuses first on hope for the departed faithful, then (1 Thes 5:1-3) on the need of preparedness for those who have to achieve their goal.<br /><br />4 [17] Will be caught up together: literally, snatched up, carried off; cf 2 Cor 12:2; Rev 12:5. From the Latin verb here used, rapiemur, has come the idea of "the rapture," when believers will be transported away from the woes of the world; this construction combines this verse with Matthew 24:40-41 (see the note there) // Luke 17:34-35 and passages from Revelation in a scheme of millennial dispensationalism.Art Historianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09730933480050325128noreply@blogger.com