A Rapture Theory

That thought has occurred to me before.

Ok

in a simulated reality anything is possible

you could call raptures tho a bad form of writing tho akin to a black swan or deus ex machina. so there's that perspective that just rip a hole in the sky why dontcha and write shit in the clouds while you are at it if we are going totally off the wall. so it just seems a bit , dare i say, forced. You could build to it more naturally and have it be a somewhat believable thing. You wouldnt want to hinder your own harvest by the sheer ridiculousness of its process

and if you think just christians are being raptured your odds are quite high in the books

arrogant selfish little fuckers

Idk if the rapture is even a thing let alone the guest list. When the person told me their theory, we were talking about Christians. I didn't really ask any questions about the theory. It might be more complicated than i presented it here.

Well, that is true.

What are you talking about? Everyone dies eventually anyway.

I sort of think it's more plausible than people just disappearing, but idk.

Rapture and Mark of the Beast

2 things discussed by absolute dimwits

Hmmmm...

I guess I should explain how this person told me their theory.

We are both Christians, but different denominations. Neither of us were taught about the Rapture in church.

But, his grandfather was a pastor. So, I asked if his grandfather ever said anything about it and he said his grandfather did not.

We had heard of the Rapture, obviously. So, this was his theory about it.

Then the conversation moved along to other topics.

yeah but does eveyone livvvvvvvvvvv555555???!!!

*raises fist poignantly to the heavens*

I guess I have to know more about Rapture doctrine to know what you mean. I don't. I never learned it.

I like it. It’s a great way for Christians to get away from the erroneous belief that people all stay dead in the grave, knowing nothing, feeling nothing, until the Resurrection. Rapture gives you continuing life after death, everlasting life, and for now it’s for Christians only but that’s how they can gradually accept the truth that everyone lives on after death.

No. But ok, U do u.

This theory is only about the mechanics of how the Rapture could happen. We both thought part of Rapture doctrine was post-Rapture, all the Christians on earth were gone. It's not judging anybody because everyone eventually dies anyway.

This theory doesn't go into the thereafter, as in people living on after death or where or how. it doesn't go into it for anyone at all, not even Christians.

My friend and i were not taught Rapture doctrine at church. We aren't even the same denomination. His grandfather, a pastor, never talked about it from what he could remember.

So, to us going to heaven and who goes and all of these things are completely separate from the Rapture.

My church taught everything goes down for everyone post Tribulation. No special times outsies for Christians.

Lol. It's just a theory.

well my point is mostly that the doctrine is 'loose' ( or is that lux? ) at best

feel free to complain about scoring tho

im fairly certain i will

I think “part” of the rapture, if there is one, is the coming nuclear war.
My guess is that it might be quite painful.
People aren’t going to just sprout wings and fly up into the sky.

I’ll end with this.

13:9 Zechariah
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Oh, yes, it is.

I don't really understand it. I can't say nothing like that will happen because I don't know the future, but I don't see how they arrive at some of their conclusions.

I am starting to wonder if the Rapture is mostly an internet thing. Pre-Internet, i had one person tell me about it. And i saw something about it on a TV show once (not a famous show).

Yes, i could see that.

Paul teaches that the dead bodies of the saved Christians who are in the ground rise first. Then those who are alive and saved at the time on earth go. It is an easy to understand passage of Scripture. People love to argue about when it will be. God said the Body of Christ would not suffer His wrath during the Tribulation, and He said the restrainer would be removed before the man of lawlessness is revealed. The restrainer is the age of grace and the body of Christ.

It is actually very clear. The problem is Roman Catholicism mixed in pagan doctrines and then spiritualized all prophecy in order to control people and to gain influence and power. If Christ is coming back for His body before the Trib, then the Body is looking for Jesus, not antichrist, and they wouldnt have been looking to Rome.

The Catholic pagan doctrine concerning eschatology was taken by many of the reformers. That is why you see so many differing views. The Tribulation is actually a version of purgatory where Christians pay for their salvation when viewed through a post trib lens. Not only totally wrong Biblically, but it also destroys grace through faith saves alone, which is what the Bible teaches plainly. Catholics hate that doctrine, they have to add works and suffering, telling Jesus He didng do it all, but that they are saving themselves. Which means Jesus doesnt know them and they arent saved.

Your friends idea stems from not knowing the Bible.

there is no rapture even.. but people passing in this times....are being sorted to wherever they should go as they pass.

there isn't for you and the members of your shitty urantia cult.

the rapture/resurrection event is for those have Christ as their saviour and belong to him. they are the ones who are raptured/resurrected.

you ones of wicked and evil urantia cult stay right here on earth during the horrors of the 7 year tribulation period and will serve satan of nebadon's coming antichrist.

Raptures and pole shifts are the #1 most failed bullshit here... recycled here every year for decades now

Religions were inverted and rewritten 3600 years ago by the invading forces that destroyed Atlantis and Lemuria... Jesus is real but all that he taught was taken and inverted so that you are worshiping Yaldabaoth no matter what religion you bought into.. the Rapture is another savior complex where people will sit and wait for the savior or Rapture to save them instead of doing something to save yourselves

That’s a neglected and unclear part of the Rapture doctrine - where do they go.

You are wrong.

No one would notice christians dying off.

As they make no difference to society at all.

In fact they do their best to blend in.

Salt of the world my ass.

No one even knows they exist.