What's your proof on this?
So, this letter meant nothing to people at the time of Peter?
It was written to some future audience?
Sounds like typical dispensational exegesis
Who are the strangers in the last days? When are the last days?
Closing the Gap in Dispensationalism
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Who are the strangers in the last days? When are the last days?
What's your proof on this?
So, this letter meant nothing to people at the time of Peter?
It was written to some future audience?
Sounds like typical dispensational exegesis
"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia..."
(διασπορά-scattered)="Christians who live in dispersion in the world, far from their heavenly home". They are strangers and sojourners of the earth
The Jews kept the law by not doing anything. Just as you claim the same by not resisting. It's all works of the Law. You shall accept Christ = not resist = have no other Gods, before me.
Some did keep God's commandments and didn't fall because they didn't get proud about it
This is a false statement. The opposite is true. Those who kept the law, lived by the law. It was all about doing the works of the law.
Living by the law meant not stealing. Not murdering, not coveting, not bearing false witness...... Just like Arminians say we save ourselves by "not resisting". It's all law and zero grace.
"I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws.”
Like many other people in the Bible, Abraham was not perfect, but he did keep the God's commandments (in the spirit op the law). He who loves the Lord keeps His commandments. Keeping the The Royal Law is plenty sufficient to do well with God and people.
We (believers) are Israel and the wicked unbelievers cut off and placed under God's wrath.
The Bible mentions the pre-trib Rapture many times. Just because the word "rapture" is not in the English language Bible does not mean anything. This is an important Bible doctrine which you obviously have failed to see. That's what happens when people follow the doctrines of men.
Most people think the idea of a rapture is new, but actually there already have been 4.
well of course not, planes didn't exist back then.
But it looked something like this."When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him " -Acts 8:38
But it looked something like this."When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away; and the eunuch no longer saw him " -Acts 8:38
Keeping the law was walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord. Remember, the sacrificial system was part of the law.
Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Its a forceful catching up. The only difference is that God told us that the next one will be universal. "Behold I tell you a mystery, we will not all sleep"....and our resurrection happens at the universal rapture.