What do you think about the rapture?

Started by GymLeaderMisty December 22nd, 2009 10:09 PM
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That's what happened when the Dinosaurs all died out, right? And then people came from somewhere?

I don't read much. I assume these books are about the last Raptor that was left behind after the meteors hit earth?
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I do, and I certainly believe it. After reading the Left Behind series, and what is happening now, I smile, knowing I'll be in Heaven soon. That's what you gotta think about.
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I do, and I certainly believe it. After reading the Left Behind series, and what is happening now, I smile, knowing I'll be in Heaven soon. That's what you gotta think about.
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The rapture is the second coming of Jesus after the apocalypse in Christian theology, right (correct me if I'm wrong; my theological knowledge isn't perfect)? Here's what I think. I think people have been telling of the coming apocalypse since our species first became self-aware. Of course, with today's technology, such an event is certainly within our reach. We had the ability to blow up entire cities in the 1940s, and today's nuclear weapons are hundreds of times more powerful.

I try not to think about it too much, though. There are people suffering and dying right now, which is far more important to me than theories about an apocalypse that may not even happen within my lifetime (if at all). The thing that gets me about end-of-the-world theorists is that they're often willing to let suffering happen now because they firmly believe that in a few years, it won't matter. Without getting too preachy, I'll just say that I disagree with this mindset. I don't care if we get blown to hell now or in a hundred years (figuratively; I'm atheist), if there are people we can help, that should be our immediate concern.
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I've never heard anyone call it the 'rapture' but I guess it's just the same as the apocalypse right? In that case of course I believe that the world will eventually end (after all nothing lasts forever) but not all the religious hooha that most apocalypse preachers seen to believe will come with it.
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I just use 'Rapture' as a ship name.

Does anyone know what the rapture is? Does anyone actually believe in the rapture on this forum? Do you know anyone who believes in the rapture? Has anyone read any Left Behind books?
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When I was like nine or ten I was at one of those wednesday night youth things for church and we watched the Left Behind movie and it scared the living crap out of me (cus back then I believed whatever the church told me was true and I thought one day all my friends and family are going to be "left behind" in some ****ed up christian apocalypse).

That's the last time I've been to church I think. That was around that time when I started making my own decisions on what to believe and what is the truth.

I don't believe in the rapture personally. (or god for that matter)
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Dad told me it wasn't real guys.
His dad told him it isn't real, so I agree with him :D
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no... I actually havent really put much thought into it...
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No, no it is not. You are way off, unless you are joking.
Well sooorry. I thought this was a real thing, not some random thing out of some obscure book.

So... let me get this straight: a 2000-year-old magic carpenter zombie is going to come back, beam some people up, then blow up the earth or set it on fire or something?

That sounds like a bad M. Night Shyamalan movie, to be honest.

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Well sooorry. I thought this was a real thing, not some random thing out of some obscure book.

So... let me get this straight: a 2000-year-old magic carpenter zombie is going to come back, beam some people up, then blow up the earth or set it on fire or something?

That sounds like a bad M. Night Shyamalan movie, to be honest.
Well, you're a bit off, and you have some misinterpretations but the general idea is correct. :3 2000-year-old magic carpenter zombie coming back to save us and fight? Yeah, try again.

In other words: I agree with you, Gary.

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I don't believe in the rapture as told by the Left Behind series. I believe that the world will end and God will come back and create a new earth and all of his followers will live there. I don't believe in the reign of the devil for a thousand years or whatever. But I'm not totally against it either. If it happens that way, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't.
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I don't believe in the rapture as told by the Left Behind series. I believe that the world will end and God will come back and create a new earth and all of his followers will live there. I don't believe in the reign of the devil for a thousand years or whatever. But I'm not totally against it either. If it happens that way, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't.
Actually.... the rapture happens, then seven years of tribulation happen when God dishes out plagues, and the anti-christ persecutes people, and then a 1000 year reign of Christ on Earth.

That's what premillenial dispensationalists believe (they wrote the Left Behindbooks.)

So... let me get this straight: a 2000-year-old magic carpenter zombie is going to come back, beam some people up, then blow up the earth or set it on fire or something?
That is the plot of the Left Behind books so you are mostly accurate.

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Well sooorry. I thought this was a real thing, not some random thing out of some obscure book.

So... let me get this straight: a 2000-year-old magic carpenter zombie is going to come back, beam some people up, then blow up the earth or set it on fire or something?

That sounds like a bad M. Night Shyamalan movie, to be honest.
Always nice to come into a thread about a belief and ridicule it. These are the kind of people that make me ashamed to call myself an atheist.
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Always nice to come into a thread about a belief and ridicule it. These are the kind of people that make me ashamed to call myself an atheist.
Are you ashamed of the Richard Dawkins type of atheist where you are openly atheist? Or are you more like a person who treats religion as if it doesn't exist at all?

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This is a kind of weird topic for me to be in, because just last night I was lying awake in my bed, thinking about the end of the world. Then I see this topic. That's kind of creepy.

I haven't watched or read the Left Behind series simply because I hate, hate, hate thinking about the end of the world. There is so much more that I want to do with my life, and I don't want to sit around and worry every few minutes that I am going to die soon.

I am spiritual, but I am not the average Christian. I believe in God, I have actual reason to believe in God, but they are my own personal reasons. I couldn't tell them to somebody else and make them believe, but they mean something to me. So I do believe in revelations, which is another name for the rapture, or apocalypse, but... I really don't like to think about it.

I don't believe it will happen in 2012, actually. I think that if it is soon, no one is going to see it coming. No one is going to predict it. But... I am glad that if it really does happen, then that really does mean that there is a God, and that we really will live on in the afterlife... I don't ever want to actually die and be gone.

So in a way I welcome the rapture, an in others I fear it. I don't want to believe in it, but that is only the fear speaking in me. I believe in it truly.
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Are you ashamed of the Richard Dawkins type of atheist where you are openly atheist? Or are you more like a person who treats religion as if it doesn't exist at all?
I don't care if someone's openly anything, though I personally think Richard Dawkins is a jerk. And I don't treat religion as if it doesn't exist. I treat it as a personal choice, and while it may be one I disagree with, it's not one I see as immoral, so I don't disrespect that choice. I don't really care what people believe in, so long as they don't push their beliefs on others and their beliefs aren't blatantly immoral. As for ridiculing someone for such choices, it's pointless and cruel; there's no reason for it, and all it does is cause hostility.
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