I saw on the discovery channel that the rapture is not even in the bible?

Question

and that it was made up. Which leads me to believe that christians made it up to make themselves feel better. If the discovery cahnnel is wrong please give me the verse in the bible where is talks about the rapture.

Answer 1

The concept of the rapture did not gain popularity until the 1800's. it is downright scary that christians today think they somehow know christianity better than the people who invented it.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The word 'rapture' is nowhere in the Bible.
The basis for the belief comes from a misapplication of a scripture (1 or 2 Thessalonians, can't remember).

Any1 who as actually read the Bible thoroughly would realize that the rapture (as some "Christians" believe in it) is contradictory to what is taught in the rest of the Bible.

For 1 thing, "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom", so there's no way any1 could be taken to heaven 'as is'. They would 1st need to die as humans and be instananeously resurrected as spirit beings.

Also, the Bible only holds out the hope of heavenly life to a certain amount of people. The majority of the righteous are promised life on a paradise earth.

Answer 4

The Rapture is actually a verson of the endtimes that was born of one interpretation of the Scriptures. As in, the Scriptures never use the exact words, some people have taken their meaning to be that there will be an event which has since been labled the Rapture. Lots of us don't believe that version of events. The Scriptures do describe the saints being taken to heaven in some manner, but we don't know how it's going to happen. And let's all not forget that a popular series of books don't make Christian doctrine ^_^

Answer 5

I'm not sure whether or not the Rapture is mentioned in the Bible, but all of that stuff seems made-up to me anyway.
However, don't believe everything you see on TV. The other day, I watched a documentary on the Discovery Channel about ghosts possessing people's houses. Go figure.

Answer 6

The word "rapture" does not occur in the Bible. The concept of the Rapture, though, is clearly taught in Scripture. The Rapture of the church is the event in which God removes all believers from the earth in order to make way for His righteous judgment to be poured out on the earth during the Tribulation period. The Rapture is described primarily in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:50-54. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 describes the Rapture as God resurrecting all believers who have died, giving them glorified bodies, and then departing the earth with those believers who were still alive, who have also been given glorified bodies. "For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever" (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

1 Corinthians 15:50-54 focuses on the instantaneous nature of the Rapture and on the glorified bodies we will receive. "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed - in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed" (1 Corinthians 15:51-52). The Rapture is the glorious event we should all be longing for. We will finally be free from sin. We will be in God's presence forever. There is far too much debate over the meaning and scope of the Rapture. This is not God’s intent. Rather, in regards to the Rapture, God wants us to “encourage each other with these words.”

Recommended Resource: The Rapture: Who Will Face the Tribulation by Tim LaHaye.

Answer 7

The rapture per se is not in the bible. That would be from the Evangelicals. If you are assuming that ALL Christians are Evangelicals your ignorance on what you claim to disbelieve is astounding. Just as the 7th Day Adventists believe differently than Catholics or Baptists believe differently than Lutherans. The Rapture is ones mans interpretation of Revelations, his interpretation was influential enough to inspire a following. I believe something different, but basing theological discussion from the discovery channel is pretty silly.

Answer 8

The idea of the rapture comes from a particular interpretation of a few select verses by one man. The book of Revelation, which details the end-time prophecy of Christ, never mentions a secret rapture or suggests that Christians will be spared from the tribulation period.

Answer 9

It is very dubious Biblically, although Thessalonians tends to hint at it. The Greek word parousia, or "taking up" is mentioned several times.

However, the pre-tribulation rapture is never once mentioned. That was an invention of a small sect in England. One woman had a vision that true believers would never have to suffer in the tribulation, and would be taken up early.

Answer 10

That is true

It came from a 15 year old girl in Scotland named Margaret MacDonald in 1830 and it was popularized starting in 1860 by an New Age evengelist, who like the "sound bite."

It DOES describe, however, a BIBLICAL event that talks about GOD calling up the souls from the Earth to Heaven.

Sort of like BEAM US UP SCOTTY type of thing.

You can say BEAM US UP if you want, it means about the same thing as RAPTURE

RAPTURE reminds me of what people think about climax in sex or a drug trip or RAPTURE OF THE DEEP, nitrogen narcosis.

It's not a term I use, but I know of it.