Tom,

I was visiting my sister at BIOLA university(Bible Institute of Los Angelos) a well respected seminary of which she is now a graduate. (Yes, she's protestant, I'm working on her!) <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/bash.gif" alt="" />

I attended one of the weekday morning services there, and the speaker began to expound on Pretrib rapture, and then preached on other things, but interwoven through it all was referrences to pretrib. I asked about it and yes indeed, it was a hallmark of that seminaries, and it's one of many prominant seminaries that have pretrib as a doctrinal platform.

If you want to know what mainline Protestant Denominations teach and believe, you only need to refer to the seminaries, as you likely know already. I brought up Left Behind only to show what a following it has, but pretrib is not a pop culture trend, it's deeply seated in Protestant eschatology.

I could imagine myself pointing and laughing at them when the Antichrist comes and the rapture hasn't occurred, but I get the feeling when that happens, no one will be laughing. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/uhoh.gif" alt="" />

Jesus Is Risen Indeed!

catholicsoldier <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/takethat.gif" alt="" />