@neologist,
Quote:Really?!
I thought they were " . . . the blameless are the ones that will be left over in [the earth]". (proverbs 2:21) You might consider reading verse 22 and see how it compares with the rapture teaching.
It's probably best for another topic, maybe 2 or more. There are many terms not appearing in scripture that have been incorporated into nominal christianity. That they may be spurious seems never to have occurred to those who spout them. They certainly have nothing to do with the life and sacrificial death of Jesus.
Suggestions noted...I guess it is not a bad thing to take a step down...to go up...Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards...
My words of encouragement in return...
Not everything is literal...in fact, almost all of revelations is metaphorical,...Which you said would swallow me whole...
Anyways, No where in the Bible does it physically state the God the Father's name is "Jehovah"
I know that this is widely accepted by many branches of faith...
But every scripture depicts that God the Fathers name is a mystery...and that no one knows what it actually is till one with God himself...
It starts with Moses on the mountain with the apparition of the Burning Bush...
And it says that it was a name that Moses could not pronounce...and although Moses had a stutter, he knew Hebrew...
And then God told Moses to call him...I am who am...Which means his actual name has nothing to do with Yahweh either...
And it would not make a difference what anyone chose to call him, so long as they recognized who he was, and is, and will be...
Knowing his name is only a privilege of the most high...
And I have not the slightest idea how far one would have to go to actually know it...
I certainly do not think any mortal knows what it is...