***Marked safe from the rapture. nm
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It was today, or possibly tomorrow. Jesus wasn't super clear when he was speaking to the rapture pastor, apparently. I'm not sure if it will honor time zones and be more of a rolling rapture...
What? There must be some mistake. I'm not supposed to be stuck here with you heathens!**
Your earthly possessions are weighing you down. Let me send you my Venmo.
It happened today for Rudi Johnson. Hopefully he was prepared and he is bowling people over for 1 yard TDs for eternity.
IT'S COMING
(soon and very soon)
(soon and very soon)
If I get raptured that means either god isn’t paying attention or all the rest of you have been doing it wrong.
Technically he has not been resurrected. He passed away. We can debate if his spirit left his body or not and where it went but fear not either way he will be resurrected. Everyone both the just and unjust will be resurrected. Everyone's body will be rejoined with their soul.
I saw this on some late night show and it blew my mind. First time I had ever seen a white rock group acknowledge rap, much less include it in their song. "Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody's fly" was a go to reference in 5th grade.
I just meant his spirit left his body and got called up to meet Jesus today, so for him it probably felt similar to 'the Rapture" everyone is talking about.
This just came up on my Facebook feed. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Related question: Why do ghosts have on clothes?
A few days ago I learned rapture theology isn’t mainstream. I grew up on Left Behind series and attended mostly Methodist and Baptist churches growing up as we moved around. I thought that was just the standard belief. It didn’t even get introduced until like 1860, was followed by no early or traditional church doctrine and is mostly a Baptist thing today. Not a shot at Baptist friends love you guys. I literally just learned this was a thing.
Victorian era dinner jackets, culottes, and stockings seem to have souls as well.
If there is a rapture, I believe it is after the 4 horsemen in Revelation. Either way here is where the term comes from:
Our word Rapture derives from the Latin translation of 1 Thessalonians 4:17, which translates the Greek harpazo (to catch up or carry away) as rapiemur from the Latin rapio. Harpazo occurs fourteen times in the New Testament with four variations of meaning, each contributing to our understanding of the Rapture.
It may not be mainstream, but it's Biblical.
now we know what happened to the dinosaurs...
I can't find it in my Bible.
It's neither mainstream nor biblical in any sense other than that anyone can invent new doctrine by misreading the bible. Acts 2:38 is a prime example. "Mighty God is less than Almighty God" when reading Isaiah 9:6 is another. Rapture was invented in the middle of the 1800s by doing exactly this. Misinterpreting several verses especially 1 Thes. 4. The key word used by Paul is apantesis, meeting, encounter. Describes people going out from a city to meet the dignitary to welcome him into the city. Not go out to meet him and go away with him. It's using that imagery to describe the return of Christ, not him taking people away. But I don't imagine we'll convince each other on here so. . .
I never read them and had no idea they were about rapture theology until many years after I should have. Just thought it was some sort of post nuclear holocaust sci-fi series. I guess my clue should have been all my churchy friends were the ones reading them and their parents had a bunch of James Dobson books.
I am debating if I should weigh in on this.
Once you get that straightened out, do immersion vs affusion vs aspersion. Who knows, after that debate the merits of intinction?
Because it's not there. The rapture is not Biblical at all.
It's based on a wild interpretation (by a crazy Scottish sectarian conman) of a couple of scriptures--- pulled out of a more meaningful and glorious passage where the apostle Paul borrows images from the Old Testament - the trumpets blaring when Moses brings God's law down from Mt. Sinai and Daniel's 'one like the son of man' being vindicated over his enemies.
It is not erasing judgement, but it offers the hope that what is wrong with the world will be made right through Christ in us - the believers.
The rapture, as described in popular culture, invites Christians to escape the world: which is the last thing that Jesus would want from his followers.
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I've listened to "ghost stories" where people claimed to have heard footsteps or knocking. How does a ghost make physical a noise like footsteps or knocking when they can go right through it? How does it happen???