Are we still sinners if our identity is in Christ? That's just one of the questions we'll be

answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, and happy Friday. I'm Bill Meyer,

along with Pastor. This is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the

Christian life every day our phone lines are open and we'll be taking your calls for the next 25

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Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Julia calling in from Missouri. Julia, what's your

question for Pastor Adriel?

Yes, I know multiple Christians have different views of the rapture, and I was just wondering,

if you believe in it or if you don't, does that have a bearing on your salvation?

What an excellent question. No, I don't believe that whether you believe in the

rapture, and let's define what that is for a moment. So we all, as Christians, believe that Jesus is

going to return the second coming. There are some within the church who say, well, he's going to

return on the last day, the second coming, the final judgment, but he's also going to come back prior to that for his church.

And they'll point to passages like 1st Thessalonians chapter 4.

And that's actually personally a text that I think is about the second coming, not about a separate coming of

Jesus prior to the second coming, but there are some, again, who differ on this. But more to your

question, no, this isn't one of those differences that would cause us to call into question whether

or not someone is a true follower of Jesus Christ. We can interpret or have differences of opinion

with regard to our interpretations

of eschatology, the end times. And that's what we can still, you know, have fellowship with each other

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