Rapture or No Rapture? Why or Why Not?

Answer 1

Rapture all the way
If the early church didn't believe it, what was Paul talking about in his first letter to the Thessalonians. Sure sounds like rapture to me. Paul also writes about the anti-christ in his second letter to the Thesalonians. So John wasn't the only one to write about events yet to be fulfilled. Remember when the Egyptians were punished, the land of Goshen was spared.

Answer 2

Rapture is not mentioned in the Bible.....so who came up with that slogan?

Why do some worry so much about the after life, when the focus should be on each moment in life......

Most Roman Catholics and many Protestants do not accept the concept of a pre-Tribulation rapture in which some are "taken up into Heaven" before the end of the world, because, as mentioned, it is claimed that this idea did not exist in the teachings of any Christians until the 1800s, so it cannot be said to belong to Apostolic Tradition. Instead, most Catholics and many Protestants interpret 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 literally, and assert that the rapture will immediately follow the general resurrection on Judgment Day, when the living and the newly resurrected dead will rise up to meet Christ as he descends from heaven to judge the world (known as the Parousia). This is analogous to the common custom in which the people would go outside the gates of a kingdom to meet their returning king. Catholics and post-tribulation Protestants consider the rapture to be merely a minor detail in the Biblical description of the Second Coming of Christ. The key to understanding this text is the phrase "to meet the Lord". Paul uses images from the Roman Empire to make points in his letters. For example he uses the idea of Roman citizenship at Ephesians 2:19 and Philippians 3:20. He uses an image from the Roman Empire here.

Many do not accept the pre-Tribulation rapture interpretation because they believe that it is not clearly expressed in the Bible, but instead relies on extrapolations and inferences made from unconnected verses. Many further believe that if anything this significant were intended to be a major part of Christian teaching, then surely Christ would have made a plain reference to it in his own sermons as recorded in the Gospel, and not buried such a major prophecy in a few verses of the Apostle Paul. Many times the New Testament describes when something will happen "before" another event. Indeed, three times the idea of "before an event" is used with reference to the coming of Christ. The first of these is Acts 2:20 where it refers to events that will happen "before" the coming of Christ—in this case his first coming. In the second, 1 Corinthians 4:5, Paul warns his readers against pronouncing judgments "before" the Lord returns. The third is in the heart of the primary passage that is used to support the idea of a pre-tribulation rapture. At 1 Thessalonians 4:15 it says that those who are living will not precede or go "before" those who have died at the coming of the Lord. And as noted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 it says that the Antichrist will occur before the coming of Christ.


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Answer 3

No Rapture.

"Heaven is a fairy tale invented by human imagination. And each person's fairy tale is different.

We imagine that we have "souls," fabricate the concept of "eternal life" and then fantasize a place called "heaven," complete with streets of gold, calorie-free foods, frolicking virgins and whatever else we can come up with. Christians imagine it so vividly and repeat the fantasy so often that they actually believe it to be reality.

How bizarre can the fantasies get? Fly to Cairo and take a look at the Great Pyramid. There is the pyramid itself -- still one of the largest man-made objects on earth. In addition there is the whole mummification process, the disassembled boats, the sacred artwork and so on. All of this was designed to help the pharaoh reach the afterlife. We look at it now and we all know, with absolute certainty, that it was a complete and total waste of time. The Egyptian notion of the afterlife was a fantasy.

The Christian notion of the afterlife is a fantasy in exactly the same way. Heaven is completely imaginary, just like God."

Answer 4

No Rapture.


Gospel of John considered heresy until 450 A.D.
Mainly because nobody could figure out who the author of the Gospel of John was. It seems that one of the possible authors of the Gospel of John died of an opium overdose in 150 A.D.

Also this Gospel is the only Gospel to talk of the Rapture, Revelations, the raising of Lazarus, and the Feeding of the multitudes....

Answer 5

No Rapture. Why - Critical thinking.

Answer 6

Oh ya! Asking questions like that is not going to lead to you making the cut. You've got to believe it. Look at the signs.

1. The EU is unifying the currencies and governments of much of the world.
2. Israel is under Jewish control.
3. Global war is occurring and spreading.
4. The worlds biggest religions are clashing.
etc...

The good news is, if you don't make the first round, you can always refuse the mark of the beast and get in on the second round.

Answer 7

No rapture, never taught by early church, therefore it is an end-time deception. (only 200 years old) CAn you imagine what will happen to the faith of millions of christians when they aren't "raptured' during the apocalypse? Jesus said that we must endure with faith to the END in order to be saved.

Answer 8

No Rapture

Its physically impossible for humans to rise from the dead.

If it were possible then a heck of a lot more occurrences of resurrections should have been reported in history.

As it stands now, there are only TWO (2) known reports in all of history and they both happened 2000 years ago - none more recent that that.

Answer 9

Yes there will be a rapture! Praise the Lord!! Because God said so!

You will not find the word rapture in the Bible. That is what we named the return of Jesus for His church/bride.

Revelation 4;1-2 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
shew Gen 41:25, Dan 2:29, Dan 2:45

2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

The word rapture, means to snatch away.or carry off, and it comes from the word "rapio" which is Latin.

1 Thessolonians 4:15-17 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
shout Matt 24:31, Matt 25:6,

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Answer 10

I'm scared of the rapture...
It's something that's probably gonna happen,
and you have to live with it,
some of the ones you love,
will be left behind...
and it's scary...