I think that the belief in a rapture affects peoples views on global warming, despite scientific evidence.
Is this why so many people in the USA aren't concerned about green living?
2007-03-23 16:29:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
“We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand.”
James Watt, Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan. Washington Post, May 24, 1981.
2007-03-23 16:33:56 · answer #1 · answered by Audrey Grace 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are alot of people concerned with it. And alot of them believe in the Rapture too. We don't know when the Rapture will happen. It could be any minute now, next year or in another hundred years. Therefore, we are still concerned about the earth on which we have to live.
2007-03-23 16:40:01 · answer #2 · answered by debrenee211 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just don't think that is true. Yes I believe in the rapture and yes I am concered about our planet, because it is a creation of God's and I desire to be a good steward. I watched Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and I learned alot. I'm grateful to him for making it, and he deserved that Oscar.
2007-03-23 16:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by Esther 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is what Barbara Rossing argues in here book. I think it is entitled:
The Rapture Exposed
I think there is some truth to this. Of course those pretribulational premillenial dispensational theologians who really know there stuff are not guilty of this. Rather, it is the people who pick up on certain facets of it and fail to see the bigger picture.
Use styrofoam and step on the grass, Jesus is coming back!
Oh, brother!
2007-03-23 16:41:09 · answer #4 · answered by Steve 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Rapture theory has have been given a lot to respond to for. each and every religious group that's so fixated on the destiny that it can not deal realistically with the present is not any earthly use to every physique, themselves coated. The Bible tells Christians to look forward to, and be arranged for Christ's return in glory. they are to stay on a daily basis as though Christ might return. greater effective than 2,000 years have handed. we are nevertheless looking, in anticipation. intervening time, we get on with sharing the gospel of what Christ finished in historic previous on Calvary's darkened hill, and with spreading His love. Our self belief is in God, who will convey historic previous to a climax on the 2d Coming of Christ. yet we proceed to be stewards of God's creation, obliged to deal with it with utter appreciate, handy directly to our little ones. sadly, those enraptured with Rapture theology (in basic terms stepped forward in the previous due 1800s) can hardly provide a 2d's theory to the plundering of earth's factors and degredation of our brothers and sisters in 0.33 worldwide international locations. and you ask your self why they get a foul press? are you able to not see the relationship between avaricious consumerism and the destroy of the planet? do not you know that God warns in Revelation 11:18 that he will convey to destroy those ruining the earth? have you ever particularly no theory how materialistic maximum Rapture-enthusing-Christians are? how many autos are in theirpersistent-methods? How a lot rubbish do they throw away a week? How a lot electrical energy and gasoline do they get by using? How a lot nutrients do they consume? How a lot water do they waste? it rather is not constrained to those fixated on the Rapture, of direction, yet while the cap suits, placed on it.
2016-10-19 11:48:10 · answer #5 · answered by shakita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Belief that political stances effect the "evidence" far to one side = less concern about global warming.
2007-03-23 16:40:43 · answer #6 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definitly- I believe!
2007-03-23 16:37:12 · answer #7 · answered by tanat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋