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1 Thessalonians 4:16

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For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

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Contradictions (1)

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  • Is the day of the Lord at hand?

    1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 has Paul including himself among "we who are alive and remain" until the Lord's coming — assuming an imminent parousia within his own lifetime. 2 Thessalonians 2:2-3 explicitly tells the same community not to think the day of Christ is at hand, because there must first be the apostasy and the revealing of the man of sin.

    Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.

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