I'm wondering if any here see grace as a process...or the gifts of the Spirit?
Of course, maturity is a process. Purity, on the other hand is NOT a process...it is a gift of God. God is able to cleanse us from sin and empower us to walk in all His commandments. And He does this by "rapturing" us into the kingdom realm of the Spirit.
Do I really need to ask if rapturing (or translating someone from one place to another) is a process?
I think it is the thinking process that is so faulty...certainly in trying to understand the deeper things of God.
Written like a true Pentecostal with absolutely no understanding of that which he writes....or the logic of his own words.
Pentecostals are more concerned about the gifts of the spirit than of giving anything of themselves.
Its all about the church circus attitude. The rapture is a figment of your imagination - actually a Roman Catholic variation on the eschatological theme presented in the book of Daniel & Revelation. You probably have no idea what I mean by that, but it doesn't matter. You couldn't 'get it' if I explained it.
One is saved during their life on earth. Death is the end of everything natural and one is not perfected by it. What is perfection anyway? Please don't parrot scripture here. Just answer in your own words. (I know you won't even try, but I had to ask.)
One thing you wrote is true. The thinking process is indeed faulty. Nobody gives a damn about God. The 'deep things of God' to them are just another dog and pony show on Sunday morning. They have absolutely NO desire to understand anything. They only parrot scripture verses as though they were religious slogans or churchy buzz words. "Polly want a cracker? Polly want a verse?"
If a man can't understand the Bible he interprets it.
That's what Pentecostals and most post-modern church types do.