You can’t make this stuff up. Fundamentalist Dispensationalists are teaming up with athiests to take care of their pets after the Rapture leaves the pets (and the atheists) behind (h/t Bloomberg Businessweek): Many people in the U.S.—perhaps 20 million to 40 million—believe there will be a Second Coming in their lifetimes, followed by the Rapture.*… Continue reading Pet Care for “Left Behind” Animals After the Rapture
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Fr. De Celles on the Rapture
As promised, here’s Fr. De Celles’ homily from last Sunday on the topic of the Rapture and the End Times – it’s nice to see a Catholic perspective on these things, although I acknowledge that a limited diversity of belief is permitted on a number of the subjects he addresses here. The first reading was… Continue reading Fr. De Celles on the Rapture
Romans 11: Part Two
DJ AMDG responded at some length to my post on Romans 11 in the combox. His comments are in red, my responses are in blue. I disagree that the root is Christ/God. Paul is talking about the nation of Israel in terms of salvation history. It is a nation rooted in the patriarchs and the… Continue reading Romans 11: Part Two
Romans 11: Two Birds, One Stone
There is a passage in Romans 11 which I think refutes Dispensationalism and Once Saved, Always Saved that it requires almost no commentary, Romans 11:13-21: I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my… Continue reading Romans 11: Two Birds, One Stone
Dispensationalism and the Jews
Dispensationalism has a number of troubles. For starters, it’s an infant on the world stage – the first dispensationalist was John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), and prior to him, there’s no notion of a “secret rapture” that would take the elect and leave the world without a Church. It also has been the source of a… Continue reading Dispensationalism and the Jews