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Post by Death on Mar 9, 2009 15:19:12 GMT -5
I ask because on another board I post to, you don't want to know :embarrass:, I was surprised when the members started talking about it as if it was real.
I previously thought most were moderate xians, only a little nutty and nothing I hadn't heard before, though a few are absolute right wing looneys.
So I looked it up on wiki to make sure, and yep, it's an embellished story back referenced with scripture from Revelations. From what I understood it's mainly an American baptist belief.
What is people's experience of it in the xian community, other than our friends at RaptureReady? Is it really that widespread?
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Post by captainhooker on Mar 9, 2009 15:35:30 GMT -5
I grew up Baptist and have always heard about it, but it was never considered "an imminent possibility" by anyone I knew. The idea was always prefaced by the idea that God would come "like a thief in the night" so there was no sense in speculating.
My church was far too busy trying to make me feel guilty for drinking or whatever other sin I was committing to worry about when Christ was coming back.
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Post by Death on Mar 9, 2009 15:41:23 GMT -5
See, I grew up presbyterian/french protestant in Australia and never heard about it. :shrug:
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Post by schizophonic on Mar 9, 2009 15:46:35 GMT -5
Bush believed in it.
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Post by Paradox on Mar 9, 2009 16:43:36 GMT -5
It really depends where you are. The Rapture is mostly an American heresy, as it was an American who came up with the whole rapture thing. Even in America, I think it's more common in the South than in the North.
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Post by JonathanE on Mar 9, 2009 16:46:36 GMT -5
It really depends where you are. The Rapture is mostly an American heresy, as it was an American who came up with the whole rapture thing. Even in America, I think it's more common in the South than in the North. Actually, the Rapture doctrine was first put to paper by an Englishman, Darby. Schofield's Annotated KJV Bible popularized it in the U.S. It dates from the early-mid 1800's (1840ish, too lazy to look it up) It is popular with evangelicals, Baptists, Church of God, etc. Yes, it is mostly a North American phenomenon.
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Post by Mira on Mar 9, 2009 16:48:12 GMT -5
In my church my pastor specifically said that he did not believe in the rapture. Probably because IT ISN'T IN THE FUCKING BIBLE!
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Post by Paradox on Mar 9, 2009 16:49:49 GMT -5
It really depends where you are. The Rapture is mostly an American heresy, as it was an American who came up with the whole rapture thing. Even in America, I think it's more common in the South than in the North. Actually, the Rapture doctrine was first put to paper by an Englishman, Darby. Schofield's Annotated KJV Bible popularized it in the U.S. It dates from the early-mid 1800's (1840ish, too lazy to look it up) It is popular with evangelicals, Baptists, Church of God, etc. Yes, it is mostly a North American phenomenon. Ack, I thought Darby was an American. Whatever. It only really caught on in America.
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Post by Mira on Mar 9, 2009 16:51:33 GMT -5
It is popular with evangelicals, Baptists, Church of God, etc. I assume you mean Church of God Cleveland because I went to a Church of God Anderson church most my life and it was never ever taught.
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Post by JonathanE on Mar 9, 2009 16:53:33 GMT -5
I think I mean Church of God in Christ, or Church of God Assemblies; also too lazy to look it up.
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Post by Vene on Mar 9, 2009 16:57:08 GMT -5
In my church my pastor specifically said that he did not believe in the rapture. Probably because IT ISN'T IN THE FUCKING BIBLE! Since when does the Bible matter? Fundies listen to their preachers, not the Bible. That's why when they quote verses it's always out of context and often irrelevant.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Mar 9, 2009 16:58:45 GMT -5
It's hardly even mainstream within the US. It was mentioned in the "Will enthusiasm for the Rapture ever fade?" thread that Rapturites are an extreme and very VOCAL minority, but a minority nonetheless. Don't feel embarrassed or anything over being unfamiliar with it.
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Post by Jebediah on Mar 9, 2009 19:10:49 GMT -5
I had never in my life heard of the rapture until I came here. And I still have not met anyone in real life who believes in it.
EDIT: I mean, I've heard of Jesus coming back to judge the living and the dead, and all that. It's just, the idea that all Christians are going to be instantly gathered, and peole will be left behind, and the way the RR people talk about it, that's what I'd never heard of. And the word "rapture" was completely foreign to me.
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Post by Sigmaleph on Mar 9, 2009 19:26:27 GMT -5
I had never in my life heard of the rapture until I came here. And I still have not met anyone in real life who believes in it. Same, but I live surrounded by Catholics and I've never set foot on the US.
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Post by Star Cluster on Mar 9, 2009 21:40:56 GMT -5
I suppose it depends on what region of the US you happen to be in. In the Bible Belt, of which I am smack dab in the middle of, it is very much believed in. Most everyone here is certain that Jesus is coming again, that it is happening real soon, and they just praise God because they will be caught up to heaven and won't have to experience the tribulation and all that nasty stuff Revelations talks about. In fact, only until I started going to forums such as this, I thought that the majority of Christians did believe in it since it was such a common belief here.
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