Is the Rapture really biblical? Apostles, prophets and sacraments
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Is the Rapture really biblical? Apostles, prophets and sacraments

B2中高级2026年9月28日33分钟

Is the Rapture really biblical? And if friends or family strongly believe in it, should you try to change their minds? Tom Wright and Mike Bird revisit one of the most debated ideas in modern Christian eschatology. Tom explains why he believes 1 Thessalonians 4 has often been misunderstood, and why the New Testament points instead towards the return of Jesus, resurrection, renewed creation and Christ coming “to rescue, to rule, to reign”. They also ask whether apostles and prophets still exist today, with Tom warning against spiritual authority becoming authoritarianism. Plus, does...

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Hello and welcome to the Ask Empty Write Anything program. This is the show where we try to answer your questions about Jesus, the Bible and the life of faith. I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne Australia and joining us from the edge of the world in the Hebridean islands of Scotland is none other than...

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Tom Wright, officially from Wickliffe Hall in Oxford but yes at the moment in the glorious outer Hebrides. Sounds like it's lovely under there this time of year, Tom. Actually it is. I'm looking out at Blue Sky, at ripples of waves in the sea and this is a good place to be. Now Tom, did you ever see that movie starring Robert

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Duvall called The Apostle? Did you ever see that? No, alas I did. I'm not a great moviegoer and I certainly didn't get that one. Well it's a pretty old movie now, but it actually was a very good movie I found, but it's about a guy who is very Christian, very religious, has a lot of problems going on in his life.

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