
Originally Posted by
CavSct1983
Then they would have no need for funerals because the novel Rapture theory (debuted in the early 1900s) posits the body is gone as well. Otherwise, everyone who dies is "raptured". Which makes it an ongoing thing and introduces a 4th theory into the current main three.
The rapture theory has no support in the entire history of the Church until about the last 100 years, and even then only in a subset which is itself novel within the Protestant milieu until rather recently. It's novel even within the context of the Protestant milieu at large, historically speaking.