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miz1q2w3e said:
sapphi_snake said:
miz1q2w3e said:

Raises the question, why does he need the money if there's going to be a rapture?

I can't believe mature adult human beings fall for this :(

If they think this rapture thing can actually happen, it's no wonder they fall for these scams.

I think you mean if they actually believe scammers can predict the Rapture... Otherwise, doesn't every Christian believe that there'll be a Rapture someday? (albeit unexpectedly)

Not really, the concept of the "rapture" was created and popularized by millenialists using a ton of random sayings from the bible to "predict" the end of the world, think of it as an old ass version of the Da Vinci code.  The thing that pisses me off is that it has become SOOOOOOO ingrained with mainstream Christianity that it's crazy.  I was raised Catholic and never heard any talk about it until I got a bit older and met folks that went to "charismatic churches".

 

The Wikipedia defintion states at the beginning of the explanation portion:

 

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


The Catholic and Orthodox churches as well as the Reformed denominations have no tradition of a preliminary return of Christ and reject the doctrine, in part because they cannot find any reference to it among any of the early Church fathers and find its biblical foundation weak...."

 

so to answer your question....no



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spdk1 said:

Not really, the concept of the "rapture" was created and popularized by millenialists using a ton of random sayings from the bible to "predict" the end of the world, think of it as an old ass version of the Da Vinci code.  The thing that pisses me off is that it has become SOOOOOOO ingrained with mainstream Christianity that it's crazy.  I was raised Catholic and never heard any talk about it until I got a bit older and met folks that went to "charismatic churches".

 

The Wikipedia defintion states at the beginning of the explanation portion:

 

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081020111402AAP3lD8


The Catholic and Orthodox churches as well as the Reformed denominations have no tradition of a preliminary return of Christ and reject the doctrine, in part because they cannot find any reference to it among any of the early Church fathers and find its biblical foundation weak...."

 

so to answer your question....no

I can attest that most of the religious people over here in Romania (og which the majoirty are Orthodox Christians) actually believe this type of stuff. My mom keeps saying that the world is coming to an end everytime there's a natural disaster somewhere in the world, or it's too hot outside (LOL).



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The_vagabond7 said:

Rapture's over, another victory for the sane. Maybe they will just do like the Jehovah's Witnesses did in 1914 and claim that Jesus did return....but it was invisible. These May 21st guys were totally right, we just can't tell. It was an invisible rapture.


I called it. Jesus did return.....spiritually. And now he's just waiting for the REAL deal. Jehovah's Witnesses have been waiting about a century since Jesus invisibly returned. Camping's followers need to sit down, it's going to take a while. I'm sure that if you pointed this out to camping's followers they would think that JWs are insane and ill informed and that their erratic nonsensical numerology is way off base, and JWs think the same thing about Camping. Ah, the joys of religion.



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