And sorry, but why would Paul suddenly shift gears in "chapter" 5 (a human invention, for no such delineation exists) to speak about some other subject completely ("the day of the Lord")? Answer: he doesn't! It's still the same thought within the same monologue. We are "children of the light... therefore let us not sleep" SO THAT we won't be caught off-guard when the day arrives. Why else the warning? The pre-trib theory is the last dying vestige of the dispensational heresy. Just let go of it!
One question: if harpazo is an action taken against something (an object, like the transitive verb in English), and apostasia is an action done BY someone (without an object, like the intransitive in English), then how can the two be related? Why would Paul have used such disparate terms to describe the same event? That would be like saying, "My tv departed when I was robbed."
And sorry, but why would Paul suddenly shift gears in "chapter" 5 (a human invention, for no such delineation exists) to speak about some other subject completely ("the day of the Lord")? Answer: he doesn't! It's still the same thought within the same monologue. We are "children of the light... therefore let us not sleep" SO THAT we won't be caught off-guard when the day arrives. Why else the warning? The pre-trib theory is the last dying vestige of the dispensational heresy. Just let go of it!
cheagan 4 months ago
One question: if harpazo is an action taken against something (an object, like the transitive verb in English), and apostasia is an action done BY someone (without an object, like the intransitive in English), then how can the two be related? Why would Paul have used such disparate terms to describe the same event? That would be like saying, "My tv departed when I was robbed."
cheagan 4 months ago