It was never mentioned by Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli; is it just the case that people like innovation rather than sound doctrine? I'm not in favour of blindly following tradition; but surely this innovation is harmful? If a theory about teh Bible is invented nearly 2000 years later, shouldn't someone smell a rat?
2007-08-02 03:40:02 · 14 answers · asked by Jerusalem Delivered 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
cumbo, you are absolutely wrong. NO ONE was talking about this idea until it was invented in teh 1800s.
2007-08-02 08:24:56 · update #1
What was invented in the 1800s wasn't so much the concept of the Rapture, as the teaching of a two-part Second Coming, where Jesus initially makes a fly-by appearance to snatch up all the Christians so that the remaining people would be plunged into 7 years of total chaos before the "real" Second Coming.
2007-08-02 04:21:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous Lutheran 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but you're worng. The earliest recorded instance of people gathering to be "lifted up" by the Second Coming of Christ was in December, 999AD. Just about everyone in Christendom was more or less convinced that the end of the millennium would be the beginning of the Millennium.
Mother Ann tried and nearly succeeded in the 17th century to start another such feverish preparation.
But you're right that the really spectacular attempt WAS made in the late 19th century. It was Jehovah's Witnesses who so firmly believed that they went, sold all that they had and stood around on high ground waiting for the "rapture". Not finding themselves airborn did cause some consternation, but their fearless leader was able to con...er, convince them that there had simply been a slight error in the arithmatic and he'd alert them when he'd figured it out. He did this...three more times. OOOPS! The whole movement nearly collapsed, but fortunately a new leader arose and he corralled the faithful through the simple expedient of repudiating the founder's logic and rewriting Scripture and then firmly adjuring the followers to read only the Watchtower publications. Whew! Calamity averted.
2007-08-02 03:51:01 · answer #2 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Invented, or discovered?
It seems the Catholic Church has overlooked a lot of Biblical truths over the years. With Luther's Reformation came the open and free study of God's Word. With the invention of the printing press, the Bible has become a household possession. As it says in the scriptures, in the end times, knowledge shall be increased.
2007-08-02 03:51:09 · answer #3 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the people you mentioned came out of the catholic church which was formed in 90 A.D. They separated from the Apostolic church and decided they didn't even need the Holy Ghost, Jesus was a lesser God created from the dust like Adam, you needed to baptized three times for each person of the god head. So if they were still working out major stuff like that how did they have time for the rapture? Luther was trying to kill Jews and anti-Trinitarians with the Catholics. These people were busy founding religions and encouraging holocausts surely you couldn't expect them to be concerned with the rapture?
true the word Rapture is not found in scripture but rapture means to be "caught up". I get the rapture from 1 Corinthians 15 an 1 Thessalonian 4
Behold I shew you a mystery we shall not all sleep[die] but we shall be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye
2007-08-02 03:48:39 · answer #4 · answered by tolerance-Jn3:16,Acts2:38 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The actual information about a supposed "Rapture" IS in the Bible. The term, however, was made up in the 1800's I believe. There was no mention of a "Rapture" in Scripture, just that there will be two men in a field and one will be taken up, so on and so on. The actual term for it came along later.
2007-08-02 03:43:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are correct the term rapture was invented in the 1800's But the event for the term is named is Biblical. I don't care if you make up a new word for the event. It doesn't matter to me what it's called.. .Jim
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
2007-08-02 03:49:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I did not know the Bible was written in 1800, I thought it was nearly 2000 years ago. I wonder where they got this portion of scripture from then, you know the bit about the 'Rapture'.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53
51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 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. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
2007-08-02 07:12:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Grannie Annie's got it right.
It was the expected "rapture" that contributed to the notorious Crusades after the 1st millennium. Will it contribute to a 2nd Crusade in the 2nd millennium?
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2007-08-02 05:27:49 · answer #8 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As long ago as that? I thought it was 2006.
PS The two men in a field analogy is about death, not disappearance.
2007-08-02 03:44:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ah ha! some one who knows their stuff - but then most of the bible was made up anyway - some of the historical figures mentioned match up but the rest of it is pure fictional propaganda
2007-08-06 02:09:41 · answer #10 · answered by gillm 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋