John 14:1-3 and the Rapture (Part 3)
In Part 2 of this series, we presented four options for understanding what Jesus meant at John 14:1-3:

We also suggested a grading scale for evaluating these options:
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
In Part 2 of this series, we presented four options for understanding what Jesus meant at John 14:1-3:
We also suggested a grading scale for evaluating these options:
“it is not only pastors like MacArthur who embrace the medical-moral divide. Advocates and clinicians in the mental health world do also. Sometimes…advocates will state that mental illness has nothing to do with character, weakness of will, or anything else that sounds moral” - Mere Orthodoxy
“But what strikes me is that characters in novels, movies, and television shows still can’t get away from SOME idea of a transcendent power that has intentions and person-like agency and meddles in their lives.” - Roger Olson
“Symes himself is…. an adherent of an increasingly fashionable position called ‘panpsychism’—the view that consciousness is the fundamental constituent of reality and that everything, from the smallest atom to the most complex human brain, is ‘conscious’ at some level.” - Religion & Liberty
“Revelation’s depictions of labeled people show us that God knows exactly who belongs to him and who doesn’t. But it does more than that.” - TGC
“I personally believe that God brings infants and the mentally disabled immediately into presence after death. I briefly explain my understanding of Scripture on this matter in what follows.” - P&D
“In this video I want to lay out 4 ways that evangelism and apologetics and public theology in any sort of way has changed over the last 10 years. It’s harder today.” - Gavin Ortlund
In the first article, we set out to study what Jesus meant at John 14:1-3. Some Christians believe this passage speaks about the pre-tribulational rapture of the church to heaven, clearing the way for the tribulation here on earth. Is that right?
“These issues have not turned us into liberals…. our faith and our doctrine have been shaped by looking at what God has actually revealed and preserved for us.” - Mark Ward
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