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| Author | : Barbara R. Rossing |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2007-03-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0465004962 |
The idea of "The Rapture" -- the return of Christ to rescue and deliver Christians off the earth -- is an extremely popular interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and a jumping-off point for the best-selling "Left Behind" series of books. This interpretation, based on a psychology of fear and destruction, guides the daily acts of thousands if not millions of people worldwide. In The Rapture Exposed, Barbara Rossing argues that this script for the world's future is nothing more than a disingenuous distortion of the Bible. The truth, Rossing argues, is that Revelation offers a vision of God's healing love for the world. The Rapture Exposed reclaims Christianity from fundamentalists' destructive reading of the biblical story and back into God's beloved community.
| Author | : Thomas L. Copping |
| Publisher | : WestBow Press |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2013-02-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1449782892 |
As early as the first century, the church believed there was a living church rapture. Let us note the language of Paul to the Corinthian church in 15:36: Thou fool, that which thou sowest [Greek word means to strengthen] is not quickened [Greek word means to reanimate conjointly with], except it die. Paul tells the Corinthians that the living church is strengthened by Holy Spirit [we shall be changed]. The dead in Christ shall be raised incorruptible. This is one of many verses that prove the rapture theory is false theology. This is why I named this book The Big Lie, Exposed. This book exposes the false teaching of the Christian churches for the past two thousand years. I do this as instructed by Isaiah by putting precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little.
| Author | : George Eldon Ladd |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 1956 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780802811110 |
Jesus Christ is coming again! That is the Blessed Hope which has since the earliest days of the Church energized Biblical Christians looking for the full revelation of God's redemption. The author sketches the history of interpretations of Christ's second coming and then carefully and lucidly examines the Biblical passages on which this doctrine is based. His conclusion is that the Blessed Hope is the second coming of Jesus Christ, not a pretribulation rapture that believers in a secret coming of Jesus. Yet he concludes that there should be liberty and charity within the Christian community for all who hold to the expectation of "the blessed hope and appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ."
| Author | : Warren Carter |
| Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1426710143 |
A clear and fun guide to the Book of Revelation, the most hyped, hoaxed, and mystified book in the Bible.
| Author | : Zack Hunt |
| Publisher | : MennoMedia, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2019-03-19 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1513804170 |
Are you rapture ready? As a teenager in the buckle of the Bible Belt, Zack Hunt was convinced the rapture would happen at any moment. Being ready meant never missing church, never sinning, and always listening to Christian radio. But when the rapture didn’t happen, Hunt’s tightly wound faith began to fray. If he had been wrong about the rapture, what else about his faith might not hold water? Part memoir, part tour of the apocalypse, and part call to action, Unraptured traces how the church’s focus on escaping to heaven has it mired in decay. Teetering on the brink of irrelevancy in a world rocked by refugee crises, climate change, war and rumors of war, the church cannot afford to focus on the end times instead of following Jesus in the here and now. Unraptured uses these signs of the times to help readers reorient their understanding of the gospel around loving and caring for the least of these.
| Author | : Kristen E. Kvam |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 538 |
| Release | : 1999-05-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0253109035 |
"The editors have performed a great service in making widely available a documentary history of the interpretation of the Eve and Adam story." —Publishers Weekly "This fascinating volume examines Genesis 1-3 and the different ways that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interpreters have used these passages to define and enforce gender roles. . . . a 'must' . . . " —Choice "Wonderful! A marvelous introduction to the ways in which the three major Western religious traditions are both like, and unlike one another." —Ellen Umansky, Fairfield University No other text has affected women in the western world as much as the story of Eve and Adam. This remarkable anthology surveys more than 2,000 years of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim commentary and debate on the biblical story that continues to raise fundamental questions about what it means to be a man or to be a woman. The selections range widely from early postbiblical interpretations in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha to the Qur'an, from Thomas Aquinas to medieval Jewish commentaries, from Christian texts to 19th-century antebellum slavery writings, and on to pieces written especially for this volume.
| Author | : Michael J. Gorman |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 162189262X |
Reading Revelation Responsibly is for those who are confused by, afraid of, and/or preoccupied with the book of Revelation. In rescuing the Apocalypse from those who either completely misinterpret it or completely ignore it, Michael Gorman has given us both a guide to reading Revelation in a responsible way and a theological engagement with the text itself. He takes interpreting the book as a serious and sacred responsibility, believing how one reads, teaches, and preaches Revelation can have a powerful impact on one's own--and other people's--well-being. Gorman pays careful attention to the book's original historical and literary contexts, its connections to the rest of Scripture, its relationship to Christian doctrine and practice, and its potential to help or harm people in their life of faith. Rather than a script for the end times, Gorman demonstrates how Revelation is a script for Christian worship, witness, and mission that runs counter to culturally embedded civil religion.
| Author | : Steve Wohlberg |
| Publisher | : Pacific Press Publishing Association |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780816318469 |
The popular Left Behind series depicting the rapture of the Church and the rise of Antichrist has captured the imaginations of millions. This gripping, but fictional, story dramatizes a widely accepted view of Revelation's mysterious prophecies, and how earth's last days might be fulfilled. But could these bestsellers about missing people also be missing important Bible truths? Truth Left Behind, by Steve Wohlberg, has a clear purpose: to take a closer look at what the Bible really says about the Rapture, the Tribulation, The Antichrist and his deadly mark (Revelation 14:9, 14). What's true about The Rapture? What's false? According to the author, when it comes to understanding God's truth, we cannot afford to be "left behind"!
| Author | : Michael Biehler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2015-11-06 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781987985283 |
This book is disturbing yet profoundly comforting. Its message is unique, controversial and insightful. Michael Biehler pilots an intellectual adventure while challenging every reader to reexamine his core beliefs. This game-changing, subversive Christian crossover book will at first confound and then delight all who love the truth. Condemned to hell by the thought police of his little Baptist church, Biehler responds with a brave book that illuminates many taboo passages of Scripture. Bamboozled Believers makes sense and it will help you to make to make sense of the Bible too.
| Author | : Nathanael Lewis |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2016-10-13 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The immensely popular Left Behind novel and movie series, along with non-fiction books advocating the 'blessed hope' of the rapture are believed by many evangelicals to be the only truly biblical understanding of the end times.Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind series and leading spokesman for the 'pre-trib' movement touts a much-imitated chart of fiteen allegedly irrefutable proofs for that position. Here, in thorough but readable fashion, theologian Nathanael Lewis refutes each and every one.With special focus on Jewish background to the New Testament, among other things this book shows how: * Rabbi Paul's Jewish approach points directly to Jesus' teaching on the timing of the rapture* Jesus left no room for anything other than a 'post-tribulation' position* Dispensationalism and the 'pre-trib' teaching has become and idolatrous prism that distorts the word of God and will have deadly consequences for the church* The pre-trib deception will likely be a major factor in the last days 'great apostasy'* LaHaye and co, like the Pharisees, use the traditions of man to nullify the word of God, specifically the clear and consistent teaching of Jesus on the last days* LaHaye misrepresents the 'thief in the night' teachingRomans 11 is in direct opposition to dispensationalist teaching* LaHaye rips passages out of context, and on occasion essentially makes things up* LaHaye gets even the most basic facts wrong on Revelation 20* LaHaye abuses a passage that doesn't even refer to the Second Coming as foundational for rapture teaching* To be truly consitent, LaHaye must either support and anti-Christian Jehovah's Witness teaching or teach outright heresy about God to justify his interpretation of a key 'blessed hope' passageIn a series of useful appendixes and additional material, Nathanael goes on to show: * How and why Paul derived from the actual words and teaching of Jesus his doctrine that the dead will be raised before the living saints are transformed to meet Jesus* Why Jewish wedding practices do not at all support a pre-trib rapture position* What Jesus meant by 'pray that you might be able to stand before the Son of Man'* Why pre-trib teaching on 'not under wrath' is contrary to the true bible teaching* How a core component of pre-trib and dispensationalist doctrine was condemned by one of the first church leaders after the apostles as 'blasphemy against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob'Nathanael Lewis has an MTheol (Hons) from St Andrews, Scotland's oldest university. In addition to writing on theology, he is a poet, composer & musician, and is active supporting Pakistani Christians.A mimumum of 6.25% of the sale price of this book will go to charities and NGOs, mainly those helping persecuted Pakistani and/or Middle Eastern Christian
