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Isnt rapture a very metaphorical way of saying: yer gonna die while youre in your physical body and then youre gonna change dimensions and go to heaven with your new dimensional body?

As we all know, your physical world is not where heaven is anymore?

Is heaven on another planet according to Christianity?

2007-09-06 14:10:54 · 20 answers · asked by Antares 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

I think angels are much nicer than aliens ^^

2007-09-06 14:17:39 · update #1

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When the rapture ahhpens, you don't die. Your body gets instantaneously changed. And heaven could be anywhere. I really don't know.

2007-09-06 14:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

While there are those who may not have put enough thought into it, you are right. At that point when the "rapture" does happen, every believer will in fact die, because this mortal body we have now can n ot exist as it is before God. Just exactly where heaven is, we don't know, other than where it is, God is. It could be a different dimension that is only reached through God allowing it to be reached. The Bible doesn't say exactly where heaven is.

2007-09-06 14:17:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Hi Calmness Before The Storm. Actually, the word "rapture" is not found in the Bible. It is a theological term that describes an event found in 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."

When Christ returns on the last day, He brings all of those who have died in the Lord (they who were Saved). These True Believers will be in their Spirit or Soul essence. They will be reunited with their bodies they left here on earth. These bodies will be resurrected into Glorified Spiritual Bodies.

At the same time, those True Believers who are still alive when Christ returns will also receive their new Glorified Bodies. It is these True Believers who will be "caught up" or "raptured" to be with Christ in the air. This is what the rapture is.

As for the unsaved at this time, they will remain and go through the Judgment of God. All found guilty are then cast into Hell.

When this is finished, the true Believers will live with God in the New Heavens and the New Earth that God tells of in Revelation 21:1-3:

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God."

2007-09-06 14:21:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

No, the Bible clearly say we willnot all die, but we will all be changed. So we don't die, we are just given a new immortal body. The clearest passage on that is 1 Corinthians 15.
No in Christianity heaven is not in the physical universe. The whole universe will one day be disposed of by God but heaven will exist for ever.

2007-09-06 14:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 2 0

Jesus, the founder of the Christian spiritual path, recommended this prayer: "Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven". If heaven is the dimension in which God's will of love and justice and harmony is perfectly implemented, Jesus teaches us to hope and pray that this will happen on earth, in the tangible, physical creation that God called "very good" when it was created (Gen. 1:31).

The "rapture", a snatching away of all the Christian believers into another, heavenly, realm, to hover there for a certain period of time (sometimes 3.5 years, sometimes 7 years) is a nineteenth-century concept--based on a prophecy of a secret coming of Jesus by a young Scottish girl who later recanted it. Paul the apostle looks to a moment when Jesus Christ will come back to the earth to establish the kingdom of God and the will of God on earth, and in his vision the true believers will be caught up by the angels in the air to welcome him (see 1 Thess. 4:13-5:11). For Jesus and his first representatives (the apostles), eternal life was always understood to be for the earth, because the kingdom of God comes to the earth, to renew and heal the earth. It's not for another, etherial dimension, as though this physical creation is inferior and/or disposable. See Rev. 21:1ff, which looks to a renewed heavens and earth, in which God's full presence is on earth, and no longer separated from that of humanity. That--and not going off to some exalted spirit realm yonder--is the New Testament hope for the future of the earth and of humanity. Resurrection is not just for human beings, but for the whole physical creation, which is dearly loved by God and designed from the beginning to be physical.

2007-09-06 14:43:10 · answer #5 · answered by Webb 1 · 0 0

Rapture as a magical disappearing of Believers was never taught until 1841 by Rev. John Nelson Darby.

There is significant doubt that Rapture is a correct reading of Scriptures.

Heaven is more relationship than location.

2007-09-06 14:19:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anthony M 6 · 0 1

well, first read 1 Thessalonians chapter 4. Read 1st John also, which is different than the gospel of John. You'll find the answers to your questions there. You might also read Philippians, where Paul intimates that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. There's all kinds of hints, but not a whole lot of concrete things...I can't wait to find out for myself :)

2007-09-06 14:18:29 · answer #7 · answered by dagiffy 3 · 0 0

Not exactly. According to the rapture theology, you will ascend bodily (in your current physical body) to be with Christ, though not yet in heaven. We will then live with Him here on earth during his 1,000 year reign.

No, heaven is not another planet.

2007-09-06 14:16:04 · answer #8 · answered by King James 5 · 3 0

Read 1 and 2 Thessalonians carefully. Those who believe Jesus is God will return with Him and reign with Him for 1,000 years from Jerusalem. We will be taken harpazo/raptus from the earth to meet Him in the air like Elijah was taken up. Take the bible literally as much as you can.

2007-09-06 14:18:11 · answer #9 · answered by wassupmang 5 · 0 0

The "rapture" is when so many people out of every tribe of Israel will magically go to Heaven all at the same time. Its described in the Revelation of John, which was not even included in the Bible the council of Nicea came up with.

2007-09-06 14:15:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 3

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