seems like many christians argure the Rapture..I know the theory developed in 1830 in Scotland but is that it? Looking for a Conclusion..Rapture or No Rapture? Pre-Trib or 2nd coming of Christ Rapture? 2 srperate events? or The same thing?
2006-09-21 16:59:25 · 19 answers · asked by Megatron 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It does not really matter. What matters is how you live your life everyday.
Jesus said that no ones knows when the second coming will happen, but we must be always be ready.
Catholics don't usually stress out about the end of the world. We put our trust in God.
With love in Christ.
2006-09-21 17:30:16 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Rapture is an event predesignated by God Almighty. Try reading Acts 1:9-11, and 1 Thes. Chapter 5. And you can rest assured, that it could happen at any time. The Tribulation Period is an entirely different event than the Rapture. It is the seven years which shall follow the Rapture, when things on the earth shall really be bad; worse than any man can ever imagine. You can read of it in the Book of Revelation.
2006-09-22 00:12:15 · answer #2 · answered by Calvin S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The rapture is not a Catholic belief. Many Protestants also reject the rapture. As other posters pointed out, no one believed in the rapture until the 1830s. Some Pentecostals believe in the rapture, but others do not. And not all the folks who believe in the rapture are Pentecostal.
2006-09-22 01:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by Sass B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word rapture is not found in the Bible. 1 Thes.16-19 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel,and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Knowledge of every believer in Christ Jesus.
2006-09-22 00:11:38 · answer #4 · answered by Faith walker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a catholic belief...
not particularly a wide spread christian belief
overly emotional, overly stylized , overly theatrical
underdeveloped theology
research the words
perousia, apocalypse, eschatology, armageddon
especially "eschatology"
the "rapture" idea precedes christainity by a 100 years or so ...some of the sects of Judaism had much the same images; battle lines; the idea of the "chosen" ; the lament of those "left behind"; the need for the faithful to be diligent in their faith in the [almost] last times; the need for the faithful to be pure and clean, and wholesome; the idea of the army of the departed faithful coming back with [whoever] to join in the final battle.....
Jewish sects....not christian ...."hard line" Essenes, Sicarii, traditional Levites/Benjaminites, Nazarenes...each held some or all of these images of the last days....
2006-09-22 00:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
in the 1800s, some began to claim that the rapture would occur before the period of persecution. This position, now known as the "pre-tribulational" view, also was embraced by John Nelson Darby, an early leader of a Fundamentalist movement that became known as Dispensationalism.
Darby’s pre-tribulational view of the rapture was then picked up by a man named C.I. Scofield, who taught the view in the footnotes of his Scofield Reference Bible, which was widely distributed in England and America.
Many Protestants who read the Scofield Reference Bible uncritically accepted what its footnotes said and adopted the pre-tribulational view, even though no Christian had heard of it in the previous 1800 years of Church history.
http://www.catholic.com/library/Rapture.asp
2006-09-22 00:07:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A few other beliefs don't include the "Rapture" because they claim it's not "scriptural". But another word for Rapture is Caught Up. Many other denominations that I've fellowshiped with, "Christian" believe that we will be taken by the Lord. ^!^
2006-09-22 00:05:55 · answer #7 · answered by dee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was started in 1830 or there about by an over zealous Scottish preacher, Who was given to making erroneous predictions about the return of the messiah (several of them actually), nothing more. Nowhere in the Bible does it use the word rapture in that context.
2006-09-22 00:42:38 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The "Rapture", in its many conflicting forms, is not a Catholic belief. It was never heard of before the early 19th century. Catholics believe only what the early Church believed, not modern traditions of men.
2006-09-22 00:35:54 · answer #9 · answered by barbara m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've studied it inside out and still have no clear direction from God. So for now as I think it should be anyway, I will be prepared for tribulation but ready to go and glad should He remove us early. I do believe the thought of not having to go through anything bad, is probably a little on the too hopeful side considering what the apostles had to go through. Are we somehow better than they?
2006-09-22 00:03:50 · answer #10 · answered by Prophecy+History=TRUTH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋