The rapture and return of Jesus was a valiant rationalization by our highly intelligent but fundamentally ignorant primitive ancestors and those who followed. In a sense it is as accurate as a carnal mind terrified of Spirits would be capable of intuiting and inferring.

But the end of days does not refer to some far-off end of the earth.. Having experienced what I believe is a glimpse of the rapture, I am convinced the rapture is what happens upon our physical death (the end of...

The rapture and return of Jesus was a valiant rationalization by our highly intelligent but fundamentally ignorant primitive ancestors and those who followed. In a sense it is as accurate as a carnal mind terrified of Spirits would be capable of intuiting and inferring.

But the end of days does not refer to some far-off end of the earth.. Having experienced what I believe is a glimpse of the rapture, I am convinced the rapture is what happens upon our physical death (the end of...

Salvation is an accomplished fact. Jesus accomplished it as a human for all humans. It is finished. Concern yourselves with sanctification (which involves your "works"), NOT salvation (which has nothing to do with our "works"). Faith in the FACT that Jesus saved us is completely justified BECAUSE it is TRUE. It is NOT a CONDITION of salvation. It is a condition of what we BECOME.

It is faith in Jesus that is supposed to motivate your sanctification and "works"...

An important aspect of my Synthesis is the import of your experience and preference for music. Our preference in music reveals the level of spiritual development we have achieved, IMO. It also explains why spiritual concepts tend to come into conflict with the spatiotemporal view of modern physics as described by Milic Capek in these excerpts:

. . . In the temporal structure of the perception of melody, features can be discovered which appear irrational in any visual-mechanical model...

The Holy Spirit is NOT like electricity or magnetism (except in its energy form)! The Holy Spirit is the "character" of our God's consciousness, NOT a separate person. Our human Spirit is our "character" and is produced by the brain in a "person." Our Spirit is the "person" we actually are, NOT our physical body. That is what confused our very unsophisticated primitive ancestors and subsequently our not-very-nuanced theologians into creating the Trinity...