{"id":75241,"date":"2018-11-16T16:15:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75241"},"modified":"2018-11-16T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:29:59","slug":"cen-leading-theologian-nt-wright-says-the-rapture-is-not-biblical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75241","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Leading theologian NT Wright says the \u2018Rapture\u2019 is not biblical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading evangelical theologian has said the idea of the \u2018Rapture\u2019 is not biblical and is a misinterpretation of what the Apostle Paul said.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of the Rapture became popular with the JN Darby version of the Bible, but in recent years has achieved new popularity because of the best-selling \u2018Left Behind\u2019 series of books.<\/p>\n<p>But NT Wright, former Bishop of Durham, told a Premier Radio podcast that the idea had not been part of his theological thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never heard about The Rapture until I got married. My late father-in-law was an old school Elim Pentecostal, with his Schofield reference Bible and the whole thing was mapped out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchnewspaper.com\/52872\/archives\">Read it all<\/a> (may require subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading evangelical theologian has said the idea of the \u2018Rapture\u2019 is not biblical and is a misinterpretation of what the Apostle Paul said. The concept of the Rapture became popular with the JN Darby version of the Bible, but<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75241\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,419,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eschatology","category-evangelicals","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75242,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75241\/revisions\/75242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}