So maybe I just wasn't reading too closely the other day or maybe it was my ESV Study Bible notes that I was reading too closely, but I came upon the alternate theory that the one taken was taken to judgment and the one left behind is spared instead of the more traditional view that they one whoa was left behind was doomed, and the one taken was raptured.
Has anyone else heard this theory? What do you think? For a reference, here are two parallel passages in the gospels about this instance.
The Matthew passage seems more clear - it seems to be pointing to a "gathering of the elect from the four winds." But then why should the one on the roof not go down for his goods? What good will running do? Can someone explain to me why the gathering =disappearing.
Has anyone else heard this theory? What do you think? For a reference, here are two parallel passages in the gospels about this instance.
The Matthew passage seems more clear - it seems to be pointing to a "gathering of the elect from the four winds." But then why should the one on the roof not go down for his goods? What good will running do? Can someone explain to me why the gathering =disappearing.
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