05 Jan 2012, 10:21 am
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05 Jan 2012, 11:58 am
I am sure G'd has his own time table for that.
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05 Jan 2012, 12:11 pm
The rapture doctrine was made up in the 1800s by an Anabaptist preacher named Darby. His congregation was dwindling and so he strung some verses together, said they meant the rapture of the church, and scared people into coming back. Anabaptists are big on the doom and gloom aspect of religion.
It's become a big hit and spread throughout many protestant faiths.
But it's not real, nor biblical.
I have read the "Left Behind" books, and I went to a protestant fundamentalist evangelical school for 12 years, so I'm very familiar with the doctrine. If it happens the way people think it will, it would be obvious.
A fault in that doctrine is that people will not know what happened. Hello! This is not the 1800s, we have mass media and communications, and the level of learning has advanced greatly since then. A mass disappearance like that would of course cause fear and panic, but the tv's and papers would be full of those who had been taught about the rapture and just didn't believe in it. Therefore, not raptured.
When the doctrine first began to be spread, it was assumed that many wouldn't know because it wasn't a widely known doctrine. Now, just about everybody who has ever heard of Christianity has heard of it. People would know. Of course, us Catholics wouldn't be ratpured because we are part of the "Whore Of Babylon" as the fundamentalists call the Church, so those of us who have heard about it would still be here.
If a mass disappearance like that did occur, I'd of course know what it was, feel like an idiot for being wrong, Google one of the hundreds of rapture websites and watch all the videos and read the letters that those who got raptured put up for those of us who are left behind, and follow their instructions.
There is no logical way that it could go like Darby proposed in the 1800s.
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05 Jan 2012, 2:12 pm
It's become a big hit and spread throughout many protestant faiths.
But it's not real, nor biblical.
I have read the "Left Behind" books, and I went to a protestant fundamentalist evangelical school for 12 years, so I'm very familiar with the doctrine. If it happens the way people think it will, it would be obvious.
A fault in that doctrine is that people will not know what happened. Hello! This is not the 1800s, we have mass media and communications, and the level of learning has advanced greatly since then. A mass disappearance like that would of course cause fear and panic, but the tv's and papers would be full of those who had been taught about the rapture and just didn't believe in it. Therefore, not raptured.
When the doctrine first began to be spread, it was assumed that many wouldn't know because it wasn't a widely known doctrine. Now, just about everybody who has ever heard of Christianity has heard of it. People would know. Of course, us Catholics wouldn't be ratpured because we are part of the "Whore Of Babylon" as the fundamentalists call the Church, so those of us who have heard about it would still be here.
If a mass disappearance like that did occur, I'd of course know what it was, feel like an idiot for being wrong, Google one of the hundreds of rapture websites and watch all the videos and read the letters that those who got raptured put up for those of us who are left behind, and follow their instructions.
There is no logical way that it could go like Darby proposed in the 1800s.
what if like the cartoon proposes the number is too small too notice.
15 people disappear in the summer of 93 no one notices.
In that case Jesus would have already come back. The pre-trib rapture doctrine (original one) states that after the rapture there will be 7 years tribulation on earth and then Jesus will return. If it had happened in 93 then He would have come back in 2000.
If it were true and only 15 people would go, then I would imagine that God would just send a comet or something instead.
Also, only 15 people is not a "mass disappearance" so it would nullify the original doctrine which states that many will be gone.
But, all logic aside, if that happened as you are suggesting, then we are f*cked. Was that what you were going for?
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05 Jan 2012, 5:11 pm
In Parshat Noach (the portion of Genesis about Noah) G-D promises never to destroy the Earth again.
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Never again through water, that is. Nothing was said of fire.
Or zombies.
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05 Jan 2012, 5:14 pm
I don't know, that theory seems as silly to me as the "I don't know, so aliens" guy.
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05 Jan 2012, 9:19 pm
The rapture will come when Christ returns and atheism is on the rise.
That will be December 21, 2012. 
Surely the Mayan prophecy can not be wrong!. haven't you heard the Mayan sun god and Jesus Christ are facebook friends.
06 Jan 2012, 12:35 pm
That will be December 21, 2012.
Surely the Mayan prophecy can not be wrong!. haven't you heard the Mayan sun god and Jesus Christ are facebook friends.
I thought Christ and Mithras were just one user with multiple accounts. Maybe he just created the Mayan account so he could get his friend count up.
