Say the rapture suddenly happened. The rapture is a time that theologists predict will happen based on their studies of the book of Revelation. They say every Christ-follower will suddenly disappear and join Jesus in Heaven. What would you do if this suddenly happened? Would you believe that God is real? What other explanations would you have for it?
2007-12-06 09:15:24 · 33 answers · asked by Terence W 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Since Jews do not view Christ as God, does that mean they will not be raptured? I thought they were the "chosen" people.
So when will the Jews go to Heaven? It doesn't seem fair to make them wait down here with all us heathens.
If you say that the Jews are included, then you need to rethink your position that only Christ followers get raptured.
2007-12-06 09:25:16 · answer #1 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am a believer in god. But you have to realize that the bible was written by man the same as you and i and do we not exaggerate i dont believe in the rapture and have read many things about how many after researching the book of revelations believe that the rapture was the falling and has obviously took place.
2007-12-06 09:25:46 · answer #2 · answered by ohshielamyspz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not an atheist.
I would be so glad to see the fundies gone.
We could then cure MS using stem cell research that would no longer be hindered by idiotic religious mumbo jumbo.
However, you will grow old waiting for the rapture. Especially since no one heard of any rapture before the 1800's.
2007-12-06 09:26:14 · answer #3 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Instead let's say that the new testament was a book of fiction written as a joke in the early 2nd or 3rd century, and they found the introduction that said all characters in this book are imaginary?
What would you say then?
2007-12-06 09:39:34 · answer #4 · answered by Lord Lothian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Terence, it simply ISN'T going to happen, okay? This is like in the astronomy section when people ask "What if the Earth suddenly stopped spinning?" It's an impossibility.
2007-12-06 13:13:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no "if" to it. It WILL happen, then it will be too late for anyone to 'change their mind and believe' and have it do any good for them. You must believe before the rapture, not at the time of or after it happens. Now is the day of salvation. God bless.
2007-12-06 09:31:40 · answer #6 · answered by hillbilly 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I think you've seen too many horror movies.
But of course, any indication of a deity would be compelling for me. I would instantly change my point of view, emotions aside.
But notice that 150,000 years of human existence and 14 billion years of time in our universe has provided no evidence of religion.
2007-12-06 09:20:07 · answer #7 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are no prophesies whatsoever in the Old Testament about any 2nd coming! Jesus was telling some of the Jews that he was coming back in their own lifetime (white lie?), but they all died and he NEVER came back.
Mat 16:28 I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
But to some other Jews he told them that nobody, but nobody including himself knows when God will send him back to be their King! Caesar God was a God King. God the Son Jesus Christ was the alleged God, too King of the Jews. The day of the 2nd coming to be their King will come as a total surprise even to Jesus!
Mark 13:32 (Jesus said) No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
The Eastern soothsayers came to visit the "Newborn King of the Jews"… The last question that the Jews asked Jesus was about his promised kingdom (Acts 1:6-7). Jesus told them to never mind!
The Jews were never delivered from the Romans, but they were almost exterminated. The Jews wised up and dropped Jesus very quickly. For Christians it may take a little longer. Each people have its own degree of gullibility.
No fault of the Jews. They really wanted to make Jesus their king by force, but Jesus chickened out! Very few Christians want the world to know this fact!
John 6:15 (NIV) Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.
The last time that he came to Jerusalem he made all the Jews to believe that he was going to become their King, but he was teasing them!
John 12:13They* (*big crowds of Jews) took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna!" "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Blessed is the King of Israel!"
But Jesus had no intension to become anybody’s king! He also told Pontius Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world! So much for the "Newborn King of the Jews!" Pilate had to put a sign on top of the cross to remind everybody about the recanted "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews".
Christians ALWAYS accuse the Jews for rejecting Jesus! Hardly any preacher ever mentions the fact that the Jews really wanted to make Jesus king by force. Throughout history a lot of Jews lost their life because of this accusation!
2007-12-06 09:21:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Sure, I would believe in the biblical god at that point...and I would be even firmer in my stance that he's a volatile unforgiving megalomaniac who is prone to toddler-like tantrums and issuing punishments that don't fit the crimes.
But yeah...I'd believe in him at that point.
2007-12-06 09:31:43 · answer #9 · answered by War Games AM 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say a lot of people disappeared. It still would prove nothing about your god or any other. Even if I were to accept that it had a supernatural cause why not Ragnarök and not Armageddon?
2007-12-06 09:18:55 · answer #10 · answered by tuyet n 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋