What do Catholics or Anglicans think of this claim?
2007-05-15 03:53:27 · 8 answers · asked by purplepeace59 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, do not believe we are approaching the end times like the evanelicals do. The Baptist, Pentecostals, all Charismatic denominations, maybe some Methodist and Presbyterians believe in the Rapture, 7 year tribualation, rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, Armageddon, 666 and so on. It is a teaching from the mid 1800's created by an English preacher named John Nelson Darby. His heresies got him kicked out of the Anglican church of England so he became part of the "Brotherhood" and even they were skeptic of him. However his "Dispensationalis" thrived and around the end of 1800's-early 1900's Cyrus Scofield popularized this "Dispensationalism" teaching in his "Scofield" Reference Bible. So if you read a "Scofield Reference Bible" you are most likely highly indoctrined in Dispensationalism.
2007-05-15 04:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by mxcardinal 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church has never spoken definitely about the end times because Jesus Himself said we dont' know the hour when He will return, and that He will come back like "a theif in the night" when no one expects it.
In Rev. 22:20 Jesus says He is coming "soon", but He does not tell us when He is coming (that was 2000 years ago so we have no idea what soon means in God's terminology).
Because Jesus says we do not know the day or the hour and will be surprised at His coming, it is disobedient, for people and groups to predict His coming. We, instead, need to be about the business of growing in holiness, so that we are prepared for our Lord when He comes again, no matter when that will be.
2007-05-15 03:58:08 · answer #2 · answered by Veritas 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Catholics do not get all hung up on the "Rapture" We believe that Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead, but like it says in the Bible, "No one will know the hour or the day" So we don't pretend to know to scare people.
We feel like we should use the Sacraments that God gave us through his son, Jesus, to stay within the grace of God always. This way it does not matter if the end is our personal death, or the return of Jesus. Either way we are to be ready.
Peace and God Bless!
2007-05-15 03:59:31 · answer #3 · answered by C 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think we're getting there. According to prophecy, end times couldn't happen until israel became a nation again, which was in 1948. It is to start during that generation, and a biblical generation is 70 years, which gives us until 2018 for things to heat up. I don't believe in a pre-trib rapture, so am not looking forward to it. This isn't the presbyterian view, its my view. I don't really know what my church feels about it.
2007-05-15 03:59:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Almost every Sunday, either our pastor, or a church elder, or Sunday School teacher point out that we are living in the last days. The way things are going in the world, it's hard to believe otherwise.
We're Fundamental Baptist, BTW.
2007-05-15 03:58:01 · answer #5 · answered by kiwi 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have a jehova witness that comes to my door to hand me literature that tells me she believes that the end times are here.
2007-05-15 03:56:02 · answer #6 · answered by julliana 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Who said that the Evangalic think that!?!!?!?! cause i sure dont remember reading about it. anyway every year someone says we are coming to an end. and scientific studies say we wont, so i am with the scientists on this one.
2007-05-15 03:56:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh, the end times, the end times. Every generation predicts that the world will end with them.
http://www.abhota.info/end1.htm
2007-05-15 03:56:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋