2007-01-31 09:36:03 · 8 answers · asked by 1saintofGod 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-01-31 09:39:38 · answer #1 · answered by Love Shepherd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term rapture explains what will happen when we "meet the Lord in the air" 1 Thessalonians 4.
-Those who are believers that is.
That is why we call it rapture- it comes from the greek word "rapturos" ( I think that is how it is spelled)
2007-01-31 17:40:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mandolyn Monkey Munch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you saying .... that you believe the rapture will take place, but yet you don't believe that you will be raptured?
You need to put your faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, asking Him to cleanse you from all wrong doing, and turn away from sin, and put Him in the driving seat of your life.
2007-01-31 17:41:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The belief that faithful Christians will be bodily caught up from the earth, suddenly taken out of the world, to be united with the Lord “in the air.” The word “rapture” is understood by some persons, but not by all, to be the meaning of 1Â Thessalonians 4:17. The word “rapture” does not occur in the inspired Scriptures.
When the apostle Paul said that Christians would be “caught up” to be with the Lord, what subject was being discussed?
1Â Thess. 4:13-18, RS: “We would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep [“those who sleep in death,” NE; “those who have died,” TEV, JB], that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” (Evidently some members of the Christian congregation in Thessalonica had died. Paul encouraged the survivors to comfort one another with the resurrection hope. He reminded them that Jesus was resurrected after his death; so, too, at the coming of the Lord, those faithful Christians among them who had died would be raised to be with Christ.)
2007-01-31 17:42:44 · answer #4 · answered by Janos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No point in believing in the rapture.
2007-01-31 17:42:38 · answer #5 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol. you should make friends with tragic typos guy. he's funny. anyways, i don't believe in the rapture.
2007-01-31 17:40:51 · answer #6 · answered by rhiamon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't believe the hype!
2007-01-31 17:42:03 · answer #7 · answered by Screamin' Banshee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz it will happen..
2007-01-31 17:43:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋