Is The Rapture A Biblical Doctrine? | Dr. William Lane Craig | #InCaseYouMissed

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The rapture is an eschatological theological position held by some Christians, particularly within branches of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all Christian believers who are alive, along with resurrected believers, will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."Adherents of this perspective are referred to as premillennial dispensationalists. The idea of a rapture as it is currently defined is not found in historic Christianity, but is a relatively recent doctrine of Evangelical Protestantism.

In Paul the Apostle's First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible, he uses the Greek word harpazo (Ancient Greek: ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize," and explains that believers in Jesus Christ will be snatched away from earth into the air. The term is most frequently used among Evangelical Protestant theologians in the United States. Rapture has also been used for a mystical union with God or for eternal life in Heaven.

Differing viewpoints exist about the exact timing of the rapture and whether Christ's return will occur in one event or two. Pretribulationism distinguishes the rapture from the second coming of Jesus Christ mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew, 2 Thessalonians, and Revelation. This view holds that the rapture will precede the seven-year Tribulation, which will culminate in Christ's second coming and be followed by a thousand-year Messianic Kingdom. This theory grew out of the translations of the Bible that John Nelson Darby analyzed in 1833. Pretribulationism is the most widely held view among Christians believing in the rapture today, although this view is disputed within evangelicalism.Some assert a post-tribulational rapture.

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[phillipgoodson]

If you believe in the imminent return of Christ at any time or day then you believe in the rapture.

The second coming has many precursors that must occur before eliminating the possibility of Christ returning today.
Ie: The anti- christ, the great tribulation, the 2 witnesses, and a few hundred other prophesies.

Summary: The battle cry for all Post tribulationists is this:

SAD DAY SAD DAY JESUS CAN’T COME BACK

[alexanderh]

What do you think the parable of the 5 wise and 5 foolish virgins is about?

[lanigame]

His name is John Darby, not James Darby, unless maybe he went by James instead of his given John. fyi...

As usual, great information from Dr. Craig.

[phlaxus]

I really appreciate your work William, but this is the first time that I have to point out that you are objectively wrong.
John Nelson Darby did not invent the rapture, he "invented" or as I would call ist "discovered" dispensationalism. I personally do not hold to everything he teaches about dispensationalism, but I definitely hold to the rapture.
The best argument against your claim, that Darby invented the rapture is a quote von Irenaeus of Lyon who was a student from Polycarp who was a student from John the Apostle.
He lived from 130-202 so WAY BEFORE Darby made his first breath in his work "Against Heresies" in Book 5, 29:
"And therefore, when in the end the Church shall be suddenly caught up from this, it is said, 'There shall be tribulation such as has not been since the beginning, neither shall be.'"

Irenaeus believed in an imminent return of Christ and an event where Christians will be suddenly caught up in heaven with a tribulation following that event.

[MrDdriver]

If darby was right anyway the bible should have said 3rd coming of christ for the 2nd coming is in the air hehe

Craig needs to read his Bible more and lay off philosophy. Rapture is just resurrection with gloBods…travail or labor w pains then a delivery. Rom8.22-23 LIKE Jesus (Acts2.24). Isaiah 66.7-9 says we go as soon as Zion travails. Explain that. The Jews have their own labor..the church is already in ours. The Jews it says have no deliverance (Isaiah 66.7-9 and ch25). And btw..Darby was 1800s…this doctrine Paul preached on and was circulating in records 300 AD. A fact.