Do all the christians believe in rapture?

Question

when and who coined this doctrine? Have early christians believed in rapture?

Answer 1

in fact, most Christians do NOT believe in Rapture Theology, nor did ANY Christians before 1830 or so

Rapture Theology is very recent (19th century) and an artifact of "literal" translation -- that is, scripture itself doesn't support it without wild (and distressing) contortions

Answer 2

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.”

Answer 3

Paul spoke of it in 1 Thess. 4, and 1 Cor. 15. The Greek term is "harpazo" which means:

to seize (in various applications): - catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force).

We have an example of this in Acts 8:

Act 8:39 But when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip. And the eunuch did not see him any more; for he went his way rejoicing.

I have a sermon written by a person name "Psuedo-Ephraem". It is called "Sermon on the End of the World." There is considerable variation over the time of its authorship, although estimates range anywhere from 373 to 627 AD. Now, this sermon is relatively short, just under 1500 words. It is preserved in four Latin manuscripts, but there are also Greek and Syriac versions remaining. Evidence leads scholars to conclude that the first version of the sermon was most likely written in Syriac, translated into Greek, and from there into Latin.
What's interesting about the multiple early manuscripts, all dating from around the same period, is that the original sermon appears to have been so popular that it was quickly translated into the major languages of the day in order to circulate it widely among the early Church. This was not a hidden, or "shadowy" bit of teaching. This was a popular and well-read document.
Here is the portion dealing with the pre-trib rapture:
"For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins"

Answer 4

No, only those who study the Bible.

Not all do and that's sad.

The Apostle Paul coined the phrase, "rapture".

"Rapture" is how Paul's Greek word from 1 Thess 4:17 was translated into Latin.

You can read about in the Bible in 1 Thess chapters 4 and 5 and 1 Corinthians chapter 15.

Pastor Art

Answer 5

I believe in the rapture and it is not an idea that originated in the 19th century. These early church fathers wrote about the rapture and most believed in a pre-tribulation view:

Shepherd A.D. 150

Victorinus A.D. 240

Cyprian A.D. 250

Ephraim the Syrian 373 A.D.

Answer 6

I can't believe that any Christians believe in the rapture. It is easily disproven and was created in the 1800's. If there are any people who actually believe in it, it basically means that they no absolutely nothing about the history of their faith.

Answer 7

No early Christians didn't believe it. Nor do all faiths.

I'm not sure when it started, but I believe that the RC church teaches that only Mary and Jesus were assumpted (taken to heaven as flesh)....

The Bible teaches flesh and blood can't enter heaven. 1 Cor. 15:45-50

Some Protestant faiths have changed it from flesh flying up to heaven to Christians just disappearing (the Left Behind and other movies picture them as disappearing but leaving their clothes).

The Bible teaches that the heavenly class fleshly body simply dies....1 Corinthians 15:35, 36 So they simply die....members of the great crowd who will receive and teach the dead they resurrect back to earth will just bury them. Revelation 20:4-6, 2 Peter 3:13. However, the wicked who are killed get eaten by animals. Revelation 19:21
and the rest were killed with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, [even the sword] which came forth out of his mouth: and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

Jeremiah 25:31-33.

Debbie

Answer 8

Nobody believed in the rapture until the 1830's. Now it is advocated by a group of people called Dispensationalists, who make up about 1% of the Christian population world-wide (about 27,000,000 people). Almost all of them live in the United States.

Answer 9

I don't know about everyone else but I believe in the Rapture and can't wait for it to come.

Answer 10

Not all Christians believe in it.