How long will christians wait for the 'rapture'? another failed doomsday prophecy..

[جوري]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_865267.html

well what can I see, except.. this is all very amusing....

[YusufNoor]

i don't know how long they'll wait, but i'd be more than happy if some of them just disappeared...

[al yunan]

i don't know how long they'll wait, but i'd be more than happy if some of them just disappeared...

Oh yes More than happy overjoyed, euphoric and dare a say it, a state or rapture !!!

[Woodrow]

I believe these "predictions" have now become an annual event. Just a matter of time before some country has an Annual End of the World Day. Then Hallmark will start selling cards and the stores will be selling Rapture Decorations to decorate your home with.

[جوري]

I was gleefully waiting yesterday and when 6 pm came and went I figured maybe they didn't meant eastern standard time? so I gave them until 9 and sadly nothing .. and I thought what a delightful joke it would be if all the Muslims went into hiding and reports came out that Muslims all went to heaven and the Christians were left wondering why a middle eastern Jesus forgot to descend upon his worshipers in the U.S ..

[GuestFellow]

Salaam,

I have no idea why some people make these kinds of predictions.... o_o

[Ramadhan]

i don't know how long they'll wait, but i'd be more than happy if some of them just disappeared...

Word!



(the annoying but necessary 12 chars)

[Zafran]

salaam

we have 2012 coming up guys its not over yet.

peace

[siam]

Matthew 16
"27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. 28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."

Some scholars (of Chrsitianity) say the "failed doomsday" prophesy happened at the time of Jesus Christ(pbuh) himself---who apparently thought the apocalypse was going to happen in his generation. ---it didn't---and that's why the Church had to come up with its "apologetics". (---various Christologies and other dogmas).

I wonder how Christians today explain away this passage above----about the failed doomsday.

Personally, I disagree with the scholars who say Jesus Christ was an "apocalyptic Prophet"-----I think he was a Prophet who was a (Jewsh) social reformer. Such an Image fits better with the Quranic Prophet Jesus(pbuh)

[siam]

For some reason "rapture" always conjures up the image of raptor the dinosour (Velociraptor).....I always have this image of a Godzilla like animal/dinosaur eating up people-----considering what happened at Fukushima---maybe its not that farfetched?

[CosmicPathos]

aah the feeling of rapture penetrates the carnality of my mind .....

[Muslim Woman]

.. and I thought what a delightful joke it would be if all the Muslims went into hiding and reports came out that Muslims all went to heaven

lol why did n't u tell us earlier ?

[Ramadhan]

Matthew 16 "27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. 28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." Some scholars (of Chrsitianity) say the "failed doomsday" prophesy happened at the time of Jesus Christ(pbuh) himself---who apparently thought the apocalypse was going to happen in his generation. ---it didn't---and that's why the Church had to come up with its "apologetics". (---various Christologies and other dogmas). I wonder how Christians today explain away this passage above----about the failed doomsday. Personally, I disagree with the scholars who say Jesus Christ was an "apocalyptic Prophet"-----I think he was a Prophet who was a (Jewsh) social reformer. Such an Image fits better with the Quranic Prophet Jesus(pbuh)

One of the reasons why jesus (pbuh) followers didn't bother to preserve all his sayings and actions and guard them jealously right after he was raised up was because they expected that rapture would happen soon and that Jesus would be back in their lifetime.

[aadil77]

only in america

[Woodrow]

i was just playing looking at "End of the World" "Rapture" Predictions it seems there has been at least one a year for the past 100 years.

I knew it, it has become an annual event. As soon as Hallmark can design the proper card it should be the next National Holiday.

At least we can always use it as a reminder, we do not know when the day of Judgement will be upon us and many of us will not be ready for it.

[YusufNoor]

the "end of the world' seemed to be a major selling point in early Christian dawah. "the world is ending VERY SOON, MAYBE TODAY OR TOMORROW! AND you are going to hell if you don't "accept" Jesus. never mind the details, just save me!

with the exception of the Pauline epistles, most Christian writings date from AT LEAST a generation later, late 60's onward.

i do have a suggestion: when crusader type folks get banned, put raptured instead of banned under their names!

[جوري]

put raptured instead of banned under their names!

love it.. pls.put it in the suggestion area so admin van see it..

[LauraS]

Every generation is sure that "the end is nigh!" I was sitting with family next to a village church and the clock struck six and I was like it's now!! But wasn't it meant to be eleven in the UK? I really wouls have liked to have seen a live reaction of those who believed it as the time came and went....to be fair this was a small minority of Christians. I really think it's daft of the media to keep reporting these end of the world prophecies though because it can really scare people. My mum works in a school and during a different one before children were coming up to her in tears because they'd heard it was the end of the world and they thought they were going to die.

[Considering]

only in america

No, but we do have a lot of it. The practice of predicting the end of the world goes back...well, practically forever. Europeans were overrun with people preparing for doomsday in 1000 AD, 1033 AD, etc.

In America, we had the Millerites in the 1800s.

[YusufNoor]

doh!

here we go again:

Camping, the 89-year-old East Bay preacher who gained international fame with his prediction that the rapture would come at 6 p.m. Saturday, admitted he misinterpreted the Bible [ya think?], and that May 21 was not really the end of the world but the spiritual beginning of the physical end. [the who of the what?]

"Were not changing a date at all [nosireebob!]; we're just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this," he said in a rambling 90-minute broadcast that was part sermon, part press conference. "But on Oct. 21, the world will be destroyed. It won't be five months of destruction. It will come at once."

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/ar...ll-1392684.php

nope, not changing that date at all...

well, except for the date!