Does anyone find a problem with this?
2007-05-02 06:40:35 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to the Bible, God says that the world will never be as it was during the flood during the existence of man.
2007-05-02 06:49:42 · update #1
Probably more than any of us care to acknowledge. I see the problem, and I am a little frightened of it.
2007-05-02 06:44:19 · answer #1 · answered by Je veux changer le monde 4 · 4⤊ 3⤋
OH yeah! I have a huge problem with this. Well the truth is that this type of stuff was around over 150 years before the Left Behind series. Until I was 33 years old I was 100% sure that all that stuff was true. When I was 19 years old I was a fired up Christian boy looking to be a preacher. I attended a Baptist hill billy bible study for preachers, deacons, sunday school teachers and such in 1990 and they spent much time breaking down the rapture, 7 years tribulation, anti-christ, 666 smart card computer chip in your hand, bla bla bla. I really believed that stuff. Well when I was 33 someone said I was caught up in an incorrect teaching called Dispensationalism. I had no idea what that was. Then I started researching it. I found out about John Darby and well I am much wiser now. I am totally reformed now. Praise God!!!
2007-05-02 06:52:20 · answer #2 · answered by mxcardinal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what percent. Its hard to say really. I would guess that a larger percent of young Christians who have not studied The Bible as in-depth as others would use the information in those books much more. I found them interesting, but a little poorly written. They do follow Revelations only in today's terms and in a way that people today can apply it to there current lives.
I see no problem with it. For one, it introduces a whole new audience to Revelations. Two, it makes Revelations much more understandable. Three it makes people thirst for more information and many people I know have began an earnest study of Revelations after reading the books.
I'm not really sure if the authors are making a fortune on these books or not, but that's really none of my business either.
2007-05-02 06:56:25 · answer #3 · answered by Jimmie K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know a percentage, but there is a huge problem with this.
The Bible does not speak of a "secret rapture".
It says that when Christ returns for His church, the trumpet will sound and every eye will see Him. That doesn't sound very secret to me.
The Bible says that the dead in Christ shall rise first (which discounts the idea that we go directly to heaven when we die... that's not true either. Ecclesiates says that the "dead know nothing. Psalms says that "the dead do not praise the Lord". The Bible regularly refers to death as sleep.)
It says that the those Christians still living on earth will be caught up to meet them in the air.
Come on, people. Read your Bibles!
2007-05-02 06:48:08 · answer #4 · answered by Birdie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My knowledge of all things about prophecy come from one source only; the bible. The bible teaches that there is a time coming where we (believers in Christ) will meet the Lord in the air. That is known as the rapture of the church.
The rapture of the church is not the Second Coming. At the Second Coming, Jesus actually descends to earth, as the bible says He plants His foot on the Mount of Olives.
2007-05-02 06:54:43 · answer #5 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The notion of a pre-tribulation rapture is very bad theology. The most Biblically sound rapture doctrine is that it will occur AFTER the Tribulation but before God's wrath is poured out on unbelievers. Check out the first link below.
2007-05-02 16:18:43 · answer #6 · answered by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "Left Behind" series are not scriptural. You don't know how many times I've had to explain this to people who think it's "canon". I take my knowledge of the second Coming directly from the Bible, and I allow the Bible to interpret itself, which reveals a much different series of events than what the pre-trib people believe.
2007-05-02 06:50:48 · answer #7 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Left Behind scenario first appeared around the 1830's by Margaret McDonald. Then popularized by John Darby not too long after that.
The only rapture that will happen is when Christ comes back to earth and all who are in the graves rise to be judged, and we who are alive and believe in Him meet Him in the air to be with Him FOREVER.
2007-05-02 06:48:42 · answer #8 · answered by jaherrera3499@sbcglobal.net 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Left Behind Series is a "fictional account" of what the rapture will be like. The Left Behind series and Christians base their knowledge of the rapture based on The Holy Scriptures.
2007-05-02 06:46:06 · answer #9 · answered by Red neck 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
My knowledge comes from the Bible. Noah's ark that you mentioned typifies the rapture. Noah and his family were the only righteous people in that day, everybody else laughed and made fun of Noah, Noah, & his family were taken out of danger of the flood. The Rapture will take the righteous out and not have to go through the tribulation.
2007-05-02 07:17:28 · answer #10 · answered by Auburn 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What percentage of atheists think all Christians believe in the rapture?
I have a problem with this.
2007-05-02 06:53:34 · answer #11 · answered by Gui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋