spunky01
Puritan Board Freshman
I am a Reformed Baptist that has gone to a PCA Church for quite a while now and I have a longtime friend that I get together with every now and again who is a dispensationalist that likes to talk about prophecy quite frequently. I was over at his place for a camp fire night with a few other people recently and he got to talking about eschatology. (imagine that)! I am an amillenialist who used to be a dispensationalist, but never speculated about it as much as my friend does. Somewhere in the conversation he asked me how I could reconcile the rapture which is a catching away and a translation compared with the sheep & goats judgment where Christ separates the saved from the unsaved. His premise that he was getting at is that the sheep & the goat’s judgment would be redundant if believers were previously translated, resurrected and sent to heaven.
I had told him that I just took it as one event from different angles and also had said basically that neither text gives all the details to get a whole picture and that it isn't really healthy to speculate too much on things of this nature. Of course that wasn't satisfying to him and I told him I'd look deeper into it to see if I could get a more detailed explanation.
Does anybody else have any further expanded explanations besides the one I gave?
Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions
I had told him that I just took it as one event from different angles and also had said basically that neither text gives all the details to get a whole picture and that it isn't really healthy to speculate too much on things of this nature. Of course that wasn't satisfying to him and I told him I'd look deeper into it to see if I could get a more detailed explanation.
Does anybody else have any further expanded explanations besides the one I gave?
Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions