jackjetson wrote:
what is the difference in rapture and the catching away, meeting Christ in the air. in Thes. Just a different words to use for it. Same as words like. Talking=speaking, seeing=looking, etc. All are plain old verbs(shows action). What do you do with the dead in Christ, shall rise first, and those that are left alive shall follow. Sure, we should be witnessing, but that is while we are alive now.
Nowhere in the original bible do you find English words. English words are all translations from the original Hebrew and Arabic that was in use in that day. Now then they had words back then that had no English translation and we had to get as close as we could. There are also some words that had gender to them and we don't have that in the English language either but we translate the best we can to get the major meaning of Gods word into the hands of the many. We have also translated the Bible into many languages and these languages are all open to the interpreters as the translate to that language. I trust our Lord and Savior to get the translations as near to perfect as they can be.