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Pseudo-Ephraem DOES teach the Rapture!

"For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins." -Pseudo-Ephraem This is in response to Pseudo-Ephraem does not teach the Rapture! I would like to address some of the statements made by this website. "The false teachers who believe pre-tribulation Rapture theology desperately misuse an ancient document called, "Pseudo-Ephraem" as proof that someone before 1830 AD believed it." I first want to take issue with calling those who teach the pre-tribulation rapture "false teachers". The Bible defines a false teacher as 1)One who denies Jesus is Christ (1Jo 2:22), 2)one who preaches a different gospel, which is defined as the good news concerning Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, according to the Scriptures (Gal 1:19), and 3)Exhibits qualities that are unbecoming of a Christian ...
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Addressing soul sleep and the assertion that the soul came from the Greeks

Restorationists such as the Jehovah Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventist and Christadelphians contend that the soul is not conscious after death. They believe in the concept of soul sleep, that the soul is unconscious and "sleeps" in death until the resurrection at Christ's second coming. It's true, the Bible does refer to death as "sleep" on occasion, but it does so as a euphemism, as someone dead has the appearance of someone asleep. I will address their primary arguments and then provide scriptural support to the contrary. 1.  Restorationists argue that the Bible does not teach that humans have a soul, nephesh in Hebrew, but that humans are souls. This belief is interpreted from Genesis 2:7, when man became a living soul (nephesh). Nephesh, they say, is the whole living person, and when the body dies, so does the soul. They will point to Ezekiel 18:4 as evidence of this. However, death in the Bible doesn't always mean a physical death. It can also mean th...
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Is the story of the rich man and Lazarus a parable?

The story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 is often dismissed as a parable. However, there are several things that distinguish it from parables. For one, Jesus never prefaces the story by saying it's a parable. Usually, but not always, it will say if it's a parable or not, but in this instance, Jesus does not. Second, it mentions real people that have lived (i.e., Abraham and Moses). No other parable includes specific names. Third, it mentions the afterlife, one that includes the concept of an immortal soul no less. If it were a parable, it would be the only parable to mention the afterlife. But there's another reason that lends credence to the idea that it's not a parable, and it ties in with Abraham's bosom. Scriptures give us clues to what happened to Jesus between the crucifixion and the resurrection: He descended to the lowest parts of the earth (Eph 4:8-10) He went to the heart of the earth (Mat 12:40) He went to Sheol/Hades (Psa 16:10, Acts 2:27) ...
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