happens billions of ppl are gonna leave the earth? Wow that would be nce for mother earth. Mother Earth would be so happy to get rid of so much population no?
2006-11-28 18:28:52 · 11 answers · asked by Evil Atheist Conspirator 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
well not speaking of "the rapture" the earth has been here for billions of years without us through comets floods volcanos..... we are going to die out long before the earth does
2006-11-28 18:32:09 · answer #1 · answered by Red Eye 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
The word rapture -as I'm sure all Christians know- is not found in the Bible. There are 4 different schools of thought on this subject -regarding when. There are the pre-tribulation rapture, mid-tribulation rapture, pre-wrath rapture and post-tribulation rapture believers. I won't get into who is right and who is wrong because it is such a complicated and in-depth subject to try to explain, especially to unbelievers. If I were you I'd be more concerned with the fact that the Lord will return some day -probably sooner rather than later- and all mankind will eventually face God's judgement.
2006-11-29 02:38:40 · answer #2 · answered by utuseclocal483 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Originally Jesus was supposed to return in the decades following his death, when that didn't happen they stretched it out to the end of the first millennium but he still didn't show, now it's nobody knows or can predict the exact hour??? Besides the whole rapture thing didn't even start until the 1830's when some young girl had a vision about the book of Revelations out in her barn and then some old religious con artist dude started hyping it and the idea caught on and later some other overly inspired grandiose old Christian geezer with delusions of grandeur wrote a revised Bible with rapture notations mixed in and now there's a whole cult of gullible people waiting for the rapture so they can depart, it's complete utter nonsense.
2006-11-29 02:38:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Here's how the "rapture" works according to Christian mythology...
According to this doctrine, when Christ returns, all of the elect who have died will be raised and transformed into a glorious state, along with the living elect, and then be caught up to be with Christ. The key text referring to the rapture is 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17, which states, "For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord."
Virtually all Christians hold that the Second Coming will be preceded by a time of great trouble and persecution of God’s people (2 Thess. 2:1–4). This period is often called the tribulation. Until the nineteenth century, all Christians agreed that the rapture—though it was not called that at the time—would occur immediately before the Second Coming, at the close of the period of persecution. This position is today called the "post-tribulational" view because it says the rapture will come after the tribulation.
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MY opinion:
People have been proclaiming that they are living through the "end times" for waaaaay too long. There's always some unhygienic street-corner evangelist crackpot sputtering about how the world is going to end and that all the heathens better get the Lord harassed into their unsaved souls.
It STILL hasn't happened. The sky isn't falling. The oceans aren't boiling. Pigs are most definitely NOT sprouting wings and taking to the skies. They've been barking about it for years and years and years and they'll STILL be barking for years to come.
It's a scare tactic, a convenient freak- the- everliving- crap- out- of- folks magic wand that can be waved about in dramatic fashion any time the religious collective feels the soul harvest is running dry.
Trust me... go about your life. Ok, I'm sure you will anyhow considering there's really no alternative option (besides suicide, and I've heard “God” frowns upon that), but just make sure to keep in mind: STAY CALM. DON'T PANIC. REMEMBER YOUR TOWEL.
2006-11-29 02:31:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Sorry--no rapture--it's not a Bible teaching. Armegeddon (God's war on the wicked) will do it, though.
2006-11-29 02:48:15 · answer #5 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, sort of like a dog getting rid of fleas.
2006-11-29 02:41:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately, the "Rapture" will never occur. We'll be stuck having these born-again blowhards around, flapping their gums.
2006-11-29 02:35:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
no because no one is fit for the rapture if we use the bible within its context.
2006-11-29 02:39:59 · answer #8 · answered by lnfrared Loaf 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
umm whose side are you on human? how bout a little sympathy for the destruction of the human race including you.
2006-11-29 02:31:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Don't know.... You can write about it on here when it happens since you'll still be here.
2006-11-29 02:31:52 · answer #10 · answered by intangible_me 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋