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Definition: Rapture

This concept is from a literal interpretation of 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 in which Paul says, "For the Lord himself, with a word of command, with the voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God, will come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord."

Ironically, the Bible never mentions the word rapture. Fundamentalists take Paul's words as an actual description of how faithful believers will be taken up to heaven alive from the Earth by God and transported to heaven.

The Church encourages you to see Paul's writing symbolically envisioning the great unifying aspect of the Second Coming, the dead and living joined as one.

Source:
Youth Update Glossary
St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2002

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Adam and Eve?

Some people say that Adam and Eve weren’t real. Then why is their story in the Bible? How do we know what is real?

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Source:Youth Update GlossarySt. Anthony Messenger Press, 2002

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Source:
Youth Update Glossary
St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2002