the Rapture peeps have left us all behind??
2006-11-30 09:16:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
jackie-c... you mean.. normal every-day stuff???
2006-11-30 10:07:22 · update #1
Not yet
2006-11-30 09:18:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it isn't.
Sorry to be so bold, but the most rational explantion of the Revelation of St John is that it relates to the eventual fall of the Roman Empire - an event in the future at the time of St John, but one which Chrisitans of the time would have whole-heartedly wished for, as they would have seen a corrupt state around them trhat was the very antithesis of the values they stood for, and which in the time of Roman emperors from Tiberias down to Nero saw Christians as fair game for repression and execution.
In isolation on Patmos and (as has plausibly been shown) high on a kite on local hallucinogenic fungi, St John may have had a vision of the end of the world - and what ending would have been more final than that of the Roman Empire? - but the book he wrote and the visions he describes (where they have basis in fact) are now firmly in our PAST.
In common with later Utopians, St John ses the perfect society arising from the wreckage of the old - the New World Order always emerges from the rubble in apocalyptic and Utopian writigs, John was not unique in this.
A lot of the rest - sorry, but that's a product of the local fauna on Patmos. It reads like an acid trip, and there is evidence to suggest it was exactly that: ergot fungus on the bread which acted like naturally occuring LSD.
Similarly, when Jesus is quoted in the Gospels as speaking about the end of the world, that's exactly what he was saying: "Woe, oh Jerusalem". He was talking about the end of HIS world, the end of the world for all those around him - the Jewish uprising of 70AD that led to defeat and diaspora.
It's strange that so many Christian preachers still think the events of Revelation are yet to come: I can only think this is a "control mechanism" used by Fundamentalism to keep the proles frightened and firmly under the thumb of the leadership.
As I've said before, American Fundamentalist Christianity has changed its doctrine within living memory with all the ease of a Stalinist rewrite of history.
Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union was Antichrist and the agency through which Satan would bring about Armageddon.
Today, the "Soviet Union" and "Communism" have been neatly Tipp-Exed (white-outed?) out and "Al-Quida" and "Islam" written over the top...
I don't think we'll be troubled by the Rupture at any time soon!
2006-11-30 18:26:50 · answer #2 · answered by AgProv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the rapture had occurred, planes would have crashed, cars would have smashed, families would be wailing due to believers being taken. I'm still here so a really hope not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't jest - it is to come!
2006-11-30 17:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by JEC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wasnt this supposed to happen during the generation of Christ or did i read wrong ?
2006-11-30 17:19:00 · answer #4 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I dont know what you are talking about
2006-11-30 17:20:23 · answer #5 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes but i will aski if they can remember you lol
*** on the fairies!
2006-11-30 17:19:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's possible.
hopefully not, though.
2006-11-30 17:19:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rapture is bullshit (please pardon the expression):
http://www.tcgalaska.com/holycrosshermitage/pages/Orthodox_Life/rapture1.htm
http://www.tcgalaska.com/holycrosshermitage/pages/Orthodox_Life/rapture2.htm
2006-11-30 21:36:10 · answer #8 · answered by todaywiserthanyesterday 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋