Tomorrow is Rapture Day.

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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).