Ok, this is hugely hypothetical, so please bear with me. If there was a time where many people did just go missing and unexplained and you see family members/friends/co-workers that you know were Christian just gone as well as all children, what would your initial reaction be? Do you think you would be able to explain it away? Would you question the possible existence of a god at that point?
2007-10-02 19:46:30 · 19 answers · asked by Loosid 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do you see what is going on here? So many people are convinced what Christianity is that they have their eyes on certain people thinking, " Well, that guy can't go because he's still a sinner. A hypocrite."
They don't realize that it's not about being 'good' or perfect. It's about trusting God. So the people they might not expect are going to be raptured, and the one's who think they are going on their merits who do not really trust God are going to still be here.
I wonder how many people on TV who are preachers will still be here?
2007-10-02 20:15:15 · answer #1 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
According to Buddhism, rapture is a state of enlightenment , the final achievement obtained by Buddha and potentially for anyone who meditates enough to extinguish the karma/past sins.
As for the disappearance, everyday many people are disappearing from this planet earth, why dont we recognize that. In WW2 many millions disappeared, does that prove God. Rather , as per Buddha, devil is the god of death. So all these deaths & miseries of man proves the existance of devil as the trouble maker for the mankind.
This is the truth Buddha found and overcame it and went beyond into the deathlessness & timelessness and showed a way how to do it.
2007-10-03 03:07:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Your right it is HUGELY HYPOTHETICAL, Christians won't just be raptured. According to the bible many different things will occur. According to the Left Behind Series people will just vanish but that is not exactly what the bible says will happen. But anyone who has a sound understanding of what the book of Revelations was really all about knows that it wasn't a prophesy. It was a message to early Judeo Christians.
To me no Christian ever fits the description of what a "True" Christian is or should be...so I doubt if I would notice Mike Johnson from Topeka Kansas being raptured. hahaha
2007-10-03 02:52:30 · answer #3 · answered by Pathofreason.com 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Not a lot of people are going to be rapture, there will be billions of people that will be squished, so if only a few people are missing, it will be played off as if something else happened, like aliens. Billions of people will still not believe after the rapture.
2007-10-03 02:51:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can call it "hypothetical" but its really going to happen. However, theres actually going to be 2 raptures- the first or second will be the real one where Christ returns for his people. The second or first one- nobody knows which order- will be the result of "Project Bluebeam" which is a one world government "fake rapture" that will be used to form a one world religion.
Go see the black vault, and WW 3, and look up Project Bluebeam for details
2007-10-03 02:51:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
A mass abduction by aliens would still be more likely than God rapturing them to heaven.
The God worshiped by Christians contradicts everything we know about the universe through science. It is virtually impossible for him to exist.
However, even if the God of Christianity does exist, he is fundamentally immoral. Proof of his existence would only prove that humanity should do everything possible to oppose him.
No one should worship a deity which cares more about the religion you belong to than it does about how you treat other people. If Christianity is the key to salvation, then God is a sadist.
2007-10-03 03:10:37 · answer #6 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the rapture is a condemnation of the christians to death... what they serve is evil and evil doesn't want the christians to know the truth... in every instance that the bible refers to hypocrites it refers to christians.. here's an example... do not pray out in the open as the hypocrites do. and as christians are prone to imposing their will on the people another verse says to them.. Why is it you try to remove the speck from your brother's eye when look you have beams in your own eyes.. hypocrite first remove the beams from your own eyes...
The bible is not the word of god but a record of the spiritual battle between good and evil.. which often surface as prophecy....good does not call itself god.. For Satan shall call himself god over all the earth....and shall deceive many.
Satan is the only one who calls himself god... and has kept those beleiving in blind faith in ignorance for his purpose.. there is no life after death but satan doesn't fear the promotion of heaven, because no one can verify the truth.. and there are always those willing to die to prove their loyalty and beleive there will be a reward. There are many idicators in the bible in life itself beyond religion... but the choice of blind faith and servitute keeps the christians bound to the one also knowns as the father of the lie.. so when the condemnation of the christians to death becomes known the devil simply said it is a good thing to be raptured... raptured means death... just as speaking in tongues is a sign of mental instability.. just as giratting on the floor is called a healing when in fact it is an epileptic seizure...
2007-10-03 03:00:38 · answer #7 · answered by Gyspy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't say Christians will be raptured. Infact, the word "rapture" is non-biblical. All it says in the bible is that two will be standing in the field, then there will be only one. He does not distinguish between believer and non-believer. Just human beings. Farmers, in fact, if you want to get technical. So, according to the bible, during the tribulations, farmers will be "raptured".
just fyi
2007-10-03 03:01:34 · answer #8 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If all the Christians in the world vanished overnight I think it would be cause for a celebration.
2007-10-05 03:58:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since this is hypothetical...
The large majority of people who profess to be christian, don't 'walk the walk', so to speak. I'm not sure that there would be that recognizable of a population shift...
2007-10-03 02:50:44 · answer #10 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋