Dunemeister
Well-Known Member
You insert "Celestial kingdom" where the text simply reads "third heaven," which betrays a deplorable lack of familiarity with first century Judaism's conceptions of heaven.
But letting that slide, does this passage teach about the rapture? No. For by the rapture doctrine, the rapture is an event that is supposed to happen to the whole church, not individuals. So Paul cannot be referring here to someone who had been raptured.
Further, Paul himself says that it's debatable whether the person's experience was in or out of the body. So we can't simply assume it was physical.
Simply citing this verse does nothing to elucidate what it actually means in its context, so until you actually produce some exegesis (rather than cheap proof texting) that demonstrates its relevance to what Wright said, your citation is uninformative.
