Why do non-christians always make fun of what the rapture and second coming.....?

Question

IF YOU DON'T READ THE BIBLE OF COURSE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW, SOMEBODY JUST TOLD ME THAT CHRISTIANS HAVE WAITED FOR THE RAPTURE AND SECOND COMING FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS AND IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET.

Well actually the second coming and rapture couldn't have happened until after the year 2000... i know this for a fact and can prove to you that the rapture can only occur after the year 2000, test me and i'll tell you what the book of daniel means and the book of revelation....Most non-beleivers don't even know what the rapture is...

Answer 1

First, I want to remind you that in the last days there will be scoffers who will laugh at the truth and do every evil thing they desire. This will be their argument: "Jesus promised to come back, did He? Then where is He? Why, as far back as anyone can remember, everything has remained exactly the same since the world was first created."

But you must not forget, dear friends, that a day is like a 1,000 years to the Lord, and a 1,000 years is like a day. The Lord isn't really being slow about His promise to return, as some people think. No, He is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to perish, so He is giving more time for everyone to repent. But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief in the night.

2 Peter chapter 3

Answer 2

Because Christians will intimidate non-believers into converting to their religion and assuming their beliefs, many of which are totally unbelievable. If they don't convert, then sometimes Christians pester the non-believer and taunt them by telling them that they are going to hell (a place that is not proven to exist.)

As for the rapture and second coming, many Christians feel that this will be their great escape from this world.

How will they leave Earth? Will they just simply no longer be bound by the law of gravity and float upwards? How will they go thru the atmosphere and deal with thinning oxygen levels, coldness, and how far do they have to travel to reach heaven?

Or, will Jesus send a fleet of UFOs to pick up everybody and whisk them away?

And, as for the dead in Christ going first, how are these skeletal remains going to make their way?

It is things like this where there are no sensible, believable responses, and then Christians can get angry when someone cannot see any logic and, as a result, will decline the invitation to be part of their religion.

And then, the harrassment and phone calls, coming around to see people (such as Jehovah's Witnesses do), etc.

If the believer could prove the points they claim to have, and explain how these mythical situations will occur, then maybe the non-believer would not be so skeptical.

Answer 3

Well to a non-believer it looks silly. And Christians spouting off about it only make Christians look silly. it's something that hasnt happened yet so we cant possibly know how exactly it's going to happen. We cant think we are more enlightened than the people were thousands of years ago when they werent sure what the Prophecies of the Messiah meant. Probably one of the biggest mistakes Christians make is to assume they understand everything. What is MUCH MUCH MUCH more important than when where and how the rapture will take place, is to realise TODAY might be YOUR last day or anyones LAST day and do in it what is right.

Answer 4

Have you even read the Bible??? The rapture isn't even mentioned in the Bible, neither is any indication of when the end times are supposed to happen. In fact, Jesus believed the that the end times were coming within his lifetime.

The biblical account of all things is just silly, and the rapture is even more silly.

Answer 5

Most of the people today do not believe that Jesus is coming back. Look at the queers and other perverts, if they really believed there was a red hot hell waiting on them, they would have denied God in the first place.

The way most people think is, well there is no judgment for the wrong I have done and I have been doing it for years now. So if there is no judgment for the wrong I have done, then there must be no hell, and if there is no hell, then there must be no God. God is using the payment plan, " sin now pay later". Just because people haven't made a payment for their wrong doesn't mean no payment will be made.

Answer 6

Spiritual truth that is contained within the Bible is revealed to believers through the ministry of the Holy Spirit which dwells within our bodies with our inner spirit. As for the Rapture and Second Coming and the disbelief and ridicule. The same thing happened to Noah in his day. Bear in mind that Noah took years to build the ark and people everywhere knew of Noah. God's timetable is not man's timetable.

Answer 7

We don't make fun of the rapture, we make fun of you believing in a book that was written about imaginary people to get other people scared into living a submissive lifestyle and giving 10% of your wages to a non-taxed church.

If you're going to quote from a bible, you're not proving anything. If you can, then I can prove to you that evolution is why we're here.

Answer 8

According to the prophecies, one day is as a thousand years. So the first millennium after the resurrection was day 1. The second, day 2. And on the third day, Somebody Important returns. Guess what day we're in?

Answer 9

I make fun of it for two reasons. First, because it's nuts. Really think about what you're saying. Jesus is going to come and you're going to go flying off into the sky. WTF!? You know we can actually see out into space now, we even send people out there, and god doesn't live there!

The second reason I mock it is because it isn't even Biblical. It's just a bunch of crap people like Hal Lindsay made up by reading Revelation and Daniel out of historical context. It's the same kind of uninformed Logos type process that early Christians used to misinterpret the Jewish scriptures.

Answer 10

I'm a Christian, and I make fun of the rapture.

Anything in the area of spiritualism that has its roots in the US (the rapture, Intelligent Design, the book of Mormon, Scientology), I have a hard time taking seriously.