Who came up with the word "Rapture"?

Question

seriously.

Answer 1

The word "rapture" is not found anywhere in any Bible. It was a theory that developed a few hundred years ago. Just do some research on Christian website and they will give you the history of it, it's closely linked with Dispensationalism.

Here's a good site to start with: http://www.monergism.com/

Answer 2

John Nelson Darby made the term known to the world at large. The teaching came from a vision that a young woman named Margaret McDonald had in the first half of the 19th century. She was a spiritualist, and the doctrine has been used to divide Christianity, the father of lies using the first strategy of battle. Margaret had a vision and in the spiritual fervor of the day her vision of people rising to meet the Lord in the air became widely known. Christianity began to be divided over when the Lord would return for the church, when in the late 1800s Cyrus Scofield created the doctrine of the 7 year tribulation and people began to wonder would the rapture, as the vision had been named, come before the tribulation, in the middle, or at the end, because the doctrine had created the problem of how to justify both doctrines and still keep to the truth that Jesus would return to the earth as he promised. There is a lot more but the whole of the matter is that Jesus is coming back once at the end of the ages and there will be a gathering together to meet him in the air, the dead in Christ rising first and then we which are alive and remain. At that time the earth will be destroyed and a new heavens and a new earth will be created wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Answer 3

The term 'Rapture' comes from the Latin word for the event. This term has been coined for the event rather than the actual Greek word in the text. The Greek word is harpazo. It means to snatch or catch away, used of Paul in being caught up to Paradise, 2 Cor. 12:2, 4. The word is used in 1 Thess 4:16-17, and translated 'caught up'.

The visions of Miss Margaret Macdonald (Scotland) 1830 are the source of the modern doctrine and belief in the term "rapture", not John Darby as many believe. Darby only popularised it.

Answer 4

It's a bibical term. The rapture is when all of the christians will ascend into heaven upon Jesus Christ's return in the end time.

Answer 5

John Nelson Darby came up with the rapture theology. the word is latin, like someone else said. its based off of the Greek word "harpazo" meaning caught up.

Answer 6

it was the scarecrow on the wizard of oz "Oh joy! Oh rapture!I have a brain!"

Answer 7

check a dictionary for the etymology. 'rapt' is probably as in 'raptor'... "claw"... so kinda like "the act of getting grabbed" maybe... sounds greek

Answer 8

maybe it comes from rupture

Answer 9

I dunno, actually! It's some Latin word!