Rapture ?

[guerera]

What does that mean ( Rapture)?

[Falconer02]

It's a cooky religious idea that christians will be sent up to heaven while all of the reasonable people die off because they didn't accept one god out of the other millions. In my opinion, it's just a guilt-tripping tactic to force a belief system onto someone-- "If you don't believe what I believe, you'll be tormented for eternity! Enlist now!" It's also the name of an underwater city in the game "Bioshock".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

[gaylasue]

What does that mean ( Rapture)?

Here is a more intellegent answer to your question:

rap·ture
   [rap-cher] noun, verb -tured, -tur·ing.

–noun
1.
ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy.

2.
Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight.

3.
the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence.


4.
the Rapture, Theology . the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth.

5.
Archaic . the act of carrying off.


As they say about scoffers, they will be left behind....

[prtee33]

It's coming!! Keep your faith and belief or you will go to Hell!! It will be horrible!! Don't be left behind!!

[Falconer02]

It's coming!! Keep your faith and belief or you will go to Hell!! It will be horrible!! Don't be left behind!!

Quite an accurate graph. Kind of sad how so many have hoped for this beautiful world to end. 

[SherylsShado]

Quite an accurate graph. Kind of sad how so many have hoped for this beautiful world to end.  

 Most people that believe in the rapture aren't "hoping" the beautiful world will end as they don't believe the world will be "ending".  There is a difference of opinion as to when the rapture will happen but the Bible doesn't say that right after the rapture, the world will end.  

 I would think the "rapture" would be the one event in the Bible that would please EVERYONE because it's a "win-win" for everyone.  As beautiful as this world has been, Christians look forward to "being transferred to the home office".   Non-believers have repeatedly stated their dis-like, anger and hatred for Believers so I would think they would be happy to finally know that they are gone and won't be bothering them anymore.  There  won't be any Believers in the public schools, or in the government, the churches will be empty, no one left to be saying an unwelcome prayer for them anymore, and noone to debate God with in the d&d anymore.    Non-believers have done their best to try and remove God from the schools, from the money, from America and the rapture is God doing His BEST to remove "all things that belong to Him" from the earth...so the rapture event should be a time of rejoicing for everybody!!

Those that have such a hard time being a Christian now while times are "easy" and miss the rapture...they are going to find it extremely difficult to try to be a Christian AFTER the rapture.  It won't be impossible but it won't be a world where anyone with any hope of Christianity will wish to be left in.  It seems to me to almost be a transition period for the generation of people who would of had the most in technology, the best education/knowledge & scientific advances available...the generation that had the BEST of everything (there could be no possible excuse of "ignorance" from this generation that has had it all)  to choose whom they will serve after they have been given everything & every chance...because the "state" of the world after the rapture will only be a small taste of the hell that awaits the last breath one takes, if they haven't chosen to serve the Lord.  

[prtee33]

Makes me wonder who will miss who more?   Hmmmmmm... 

[SherylsShado]

Makes me wonder who will miss who more?   Hmmmmmm...   :

   LOL...

    There were MANY interesting people in the Bible and there are MANY interesting Christians...Christians aren't perfect,  they have had some mighty interesting lives which has made for some very interesting testimonies.

[Falconer02]

There were MANY interesting people in the Bible and there are MANY interesting Christians...Christians aren't perfect,  they have had some mighty interesting lives which has made for some very interesting testimonies

But far from all of 'em.

[SherylsShado]

There were MANY interesting people in the Bible and there are MANY interesting Christians...Christians aren't perfect,  they have had some mighty interesting lives which has made for some very interesting testimonies

But far from all of 'em.

Every person is interesting in their own way, just because they decide to follow Jesus doesn't mean they instantly become "uninteresting".  Heaven isn't going to be full of nothing but "Ned Flanders" stereo-types---  there isn't ONE "Ned Flanders" type mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

[sdecaro558]

First off, let me color this by saying I'm a Christian.  That being said, the rapture is a crazy idea that some people will get brought straight up to heaven while everyone else suffers when the world supposedly ends, which itself is a crazy idea because the world will not end.  The idea of a rapture has no Biblical support, and by Christian standards isn't even theologically sound (God does not play favorites, all are loved equally).

[DanielKorycki]

Quite an accurate graph. Kind of sad how so many have hoped for this beautiful world to end.  

 I would think the "rapture" would be the one event in the Bible that would please EVERYONE because it's a "win-win" for everyone.  As beautiful as this world has been, Christians look forward to "being transferred to the home office".   Non-believers have repeatedly stated their dis-like, anger and hatred for Believers so I would think they would be happy to finally know that they are gone and won't be bothering them anymore.  There  won't be any Believers in the public schools, or in the government, the churches will be empty, no one left to be saying an unwelcome prayer for them anymore, and noone to debate God with in the d&d anymore.    Non-believers have done their best to try and remove God from the schools, from the money, from America and the rapture is God doing His BEST to remove "all things that belong to Him" from the earth...so the rapture event should be a time of rejoicing for everybody!!

Do "nonbelievers" include Jews and Muslims?

[Falconer02]

Every person is interesting in their own way, just because they decide to follow Jesus doesn't mean they instantly become "uninteresting".  Heaven isn't going to be full of nothing but "Ned Flanders" stereo-types---  there isn't ONE "Ned Flanders" type mentioned anywhere in the Bible.

I don't think you got my point really- I wasnt targetting a specific group. It was that there are billions of people who excel in the 'interesting' category, help others, and are kind that disregard religion totally or are of a different faith that is unparalleled to any of the 3 abrahamic religions. Heaven is going to only be full of a specific group of people that changes highly from one persons perspective to the other which, in reasonable terms, is just silly. Example? I'm sure you've seen stuff like this before-

"People only go to heaven if they accepted Jesus before they die even if they've done horrible things."
"People only go to heaven if they accepted Jesus before they die even if they haven't done horrible things."
"People only go to heaven if they've spread the word of Christ"
"People only go to heaven if they were baptized"
"Heaven is only for a specific low # of people who will govern the earth after armageddon"
"People go to heaven if they've done _______ even if they weren't aware of my god"
etc. etc. etc.

[vmcutshall]

Why does it bother so many people that don't believe in Christ what we believe about the rapture? If you son't believe in it then don't worry about it, but I will continue to pray that one day you will accept Christ as your Savior.I don't believe in a religion but Christ. I know I will be raptured when the time comes and I do look forward to it.

[Falconer02]

Why does it bother so many people that don't believe in Christ what we believe about the rapture?

http://fusioncash.net/forum.php?topic=28144.msg356512#msg356512

The rapture (and similar things in non-christian religions) is like the saddest thing ever in christian religion. It's like the biblical version of that strange boy everyone knew back in school who lied about an uncle who was an ex navy seal and worked for Nintendo, and when you'd poke fun at him for his obvious lies, he'd tell you that his uncle would bring him the 'Super Nintendo II' with all the awesome games in the coming weekend and then you're gonna be sorry you ever poked fun at him. That's basically the rapture for these nutcases. I'm sorry dudes, Jesus wont show up and save you from all these smug normal people who enjoyed their lives while they where living."

Oh and this-

http://fusioncash.net/forum.php?topic=28155.0