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To: Alex Murphy

Sounds amusing. Too bad it's based on novels which take the heretical pre-tribulation rapture as a starting point. Check your history--the notion of a pre-tribulation rapture occurs first in the mid 19th century. Patristic commentary on the Scriptural texts evinced to support it make it clear that the uniform understanding of Christians, whether Orthodox, Latin or protestant (and I would dare to venture Coptic, Armenian or Nestorian as well), down to that point, read the texts as describing the experience of Christians alive at the time of the general resurrection, which follows all of the events poetically described in St. John's Apocalyse, being the last event prior to the Last Judgement and the renewal of the world.


2 posted on 11/14/2006 6:00:50 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: The_Reader_David

Make your own game, then.


3 posted on 11/14/2006 6:08:42 AM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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To: The_Reader_David
I do challenge your statement of "heretical pre-tribulation rapture", though.

Prove that a pre-tribulation rapture (or mid-trib rapture) is heresy. Use the Bible instead of Patristic texts, too.

5 posted on 11/14/2006 2:37:55 PM PST by Bosco (Remember how you felt on September 11?)
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