Purple Rabbit it's late so I'll answer half of your reply tonight and hopefully the other half tommorow night. I know there are many christians that believe that a rapture will occur and I challenge them to show me where it is in scripture and they haven't at this time. I do know the two verses that some of them will put together to come to such an idea and they are not even related to each other in that way. You are the one who brought up the rapture in your reply not another christian so I challenged you. If you knew that the scriptures do not teach about a rapture then why would you bring it up. Yes Christ's divinity, heaven and hell and the suffering Messiah are all taught by Jesus. I'll hopefully get to Paul tommorow.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
