Gone? Why the Rapture doctrine is being left behind.

[Minister of Truth]

Why is this on sports and hobbies?

Because most people on this site do not know how to correctly place threads into the applicable subforum.

[kudzu]

Because most people on this site do not know how to correctly place threads into the applicable subforum.

How about simple mistake?

[Minister of Truth]

How about simple mistake?

I've seen too many General Politics and Off Topic threads posted into Current Events to ever conclude that. Before Damo added a Philosophy & Religion subforum, I can see mistakenly posting this thread here. But, yeah, you're a relatively new poster, so, I can see a simple mistake.

[kudzu]

I've seen too many General Politics and Off Topic threads posted into Current Events to ever conclude that. Before Damo added a Philosophy & Religion subforum, I can see mistakenly posting this thread here. But, yeah, you're a relatively new poster, so, I can see a simple mistake.

I think this is the only time I have screwed it up.

[Cypress]

I have been on message boards, and followed politics long enough to know with crystal clear certainty that while end-times Christians and young Earth creationists might be a relatively small minority in the western Christian tradition, they hold a substantial and outsized influence on the Republican Party.

Did people forget that at a televised Republican presidential debate in 2012, several of the Republican presidential candidates indicated they did not believe in Evolution?

The entire "support Zionism...at all costs and no matter what!" premise in conservative circles is largely based on end times mythology.

[kudzu]

I have been on message boards, and followed politics long enough to know with crystal clear certainty that while end-times Christians and young Earth creationists might be a relatively small minority in the western Christian tradition, they hold a substantial and outsized influence on the Republican Party.

Did people forget that at a televised Republican presidential debate in 2012, several of the Republican presidential candidates indicated they did not believe in Evolution?

The entire "support Zionism...at all costs and no matter what!" premise in conservative circles is largely based on end times mythology.

That's true.. There are a number of variations on the Rapture and all Jews returning to Israel as a precondition of Jesus return in the future.

[PostmodernProphet]

Just stick with scripture.

I am.....again, you have concluded that Jesus will never return?......

[Mason Michaels]

I am.....again, you have concluded that Jesus will never return?......

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

[Mott the Hoople]

Bump

[ThatOwlWoman]

What a load of your usual nonsense. Large numbers of Christians never accepted the pretrib rapture nonsense. You know, since it's not like, Biblical and stuff.

I never even heard of it till I was in my late 20s. We had friends who went to an evangelical church. Went a few times with them, couldn't believe the weirdness being taught -- or how it was accepted at face value too. Strange. Asked my mom about it later. When we were growing up she was a Sunday School teacher (Lutheran). She had never heard of it either.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Bump

How come? I'm glad you did; don't think I saw this the first time around.

[countryboy]

I never even heard of it till I was in my late 20s. We had friends who went to an evangelical church. Went a few times with them, couldn't believe the weirdness being taught -- or how it was accepted at face value too. Strange. Asked my mom about it later. When we were growing up she was a Sunday School teacher (Lutheran). She had never heard of it either.

It's been around for quite a long time actually. I don't think it gained a lot of popularity until after the fictional Left Behind nonsense. Lahaye and Jenkins did considerable damage to Christendom.

[ThatOwlWoman]

It's been around for quite a long time actually. I don't think it gained a lot of popularity until after the fictional Left Behind nonsense. Lahaye and Jenkins did considerable damage to Christendom.

For sure. What's the attraction in that odd doctrine, do you think?

[Mott the Hoople]

For sure. What's the attraction in that odd doctrine, do you think?

It’s to emphasize the Calvinist doctrine of “The Elect”.

[ThatOwlWoman]

It’s to emphasize the Calvinist doctrine of “The Elect”.

Ah. The time-honored "We're better than ____ club."