Is there going to be a rapture????

[shazeep]

Lafon, i think it is just possibly that we have a definition of eternal that forces "forever, without end," when it may mean more like "set in stone; eternally recurring."

[Carl]

Originally Posted by shazeep

Lafon, i think it is just possibly that we have a definition of eternal that forces "forever, without end," when it may mean more like "set in stone; eternally recurring."

We will have eternal salvation but that does not mean the process of being saved continues throughout eternity. Likewise the result of judgement will be eternal but not eternally taking place. The idea of an eternal torment comes from the immortal soul belief.

[shazeep]

Originally Posted by Carl

We will have eternal salvation but that does not mean the process of being saved continues throughout eternity. Likewise the result of judgement will be eternal but not eternally taking place. The idea of an eternal torment comes from the immortal soul belief.

well, wadr, it sounds as if you are postulating--no prob with that; but then i would ask, "How do you know?" If we are in agreement that your final resting place is (heaven on) earth, as Scripture states, and not heaven as decreed by some religion, then those remarks seem to lose their relevance?