Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today we're going to talk about the rapture.

So this is a doctrine dealing with eschatology.

So eschatology is the study of the end times, the end of the world.

Now from a Christian perspective, we would talk about things like the final judgment,

Christ's second coming.

So this is a part of eschatology.

And it's a popular part of some Protestant and evangelical views of the end of the world.

Now there are some Catholics who end up hearing about the rapture.

And that kind of becomes a gateway to them into these Protestant evangelical ways of thinking,

not just about eschatology, but about the church, about salvation.

And so it becomes something, an opportunity for them to start to question or be skeptical

of the Catholic faith.

And in some cases leave the Catholic faith, which I think is very sad over something like

the rapture, because the rapture is not a fundamental disagreement that Catholics have

with other non-Catholics or with Protestants.

It's not something like Soluscriptura or justification by faith alone or the Eucharist

or the priesthood.

It's not a fundamental difference, but it is a difference.

And so that's why I think it's worthwhile to talk about here on the podcast today.

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