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1) Is the Rapture always associated with dispensationalism?
2) Has anyone ever heard of a dispensational PCA or a PCA that believes in the Rapture?
1) Is the Rapture always associated with dispensationalism?
2) Has anyone ever heard of a dispensational PCA or a PCA that believes in the Rapture?
Most of the time the pre-trib rapture is associated with dispenstionalism. I have heard one Presbyerian preacher subscribe to it, however, I am told that he later recanted. That was D.G. Barnhouse. Someone told me that Carl Mccintire held the view as well but I can't confirm it. I do not believe that either of these men were PCA.
Victor,
This has been mentioned in past threads as well, but to reiterate, it's not so much the word's technical definition as much as what it has come to typically mean and be strongly associated with today.
It's sort of similar to what has, to a lesser but still real extent, happened with the word "evangelical" in our day. Likewise, if I were to tell a group of people that I am "Catholic" without qualifying that I mean it in the Apostles' Creed sense, they would no doubt mentally associated it with Roman Catholicism, even though that was not the word's original connotation, and even currently is not its sole technical meaning.
I was told that Dispensationalists cannot hold office (even the diaconate) in a PCA church.
Dispensationalists believe in a "secrete" rapture.
The understanding of Dispensational Theology vs Covenantal Theology...yes, does matter.
1) Is the Rapture always associated with dispensationalism?
2) Has anyone ever heard of a dispensational PCA or a PCA that believes in the Rapture?
Rightly dividing the Word of God always matters.I have a question...
Does it matter?
Dispensationalists, for the most part, believe in a "Pre-Trib" Rapture, ie. the Left Behind Novels. Postmillennialists also take 1 Thess. 4 literally, but there is nothing in the passage about a pre-trib Rapture. In fact, verse 16 mentions a resurrection, which causes huge problems for the pre-tribber with passages such as John 5:28-29, John 6:39-44, and Rev. 20:4-5, none which can support a pre-trib resurrection. See Does the Bible teach a Pre-trib Rapture?Thanks Chris. Setting aside the timing issue and the loaded term issue, I'm still wondering how the dispensationalist's view of the actual event differs from the Reformed. I'm talking about suddenly being taken up. Do some spiritualize this?
I'm wondering because I have mostly a post-mil view and yet I take the passage literally.
Vic