What Protestant denominations do not believe in the Rapture?

Answer 1

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The 'Rapture' is a theological invention of John Nelson Darby, the nineteenth-century founder of the Plymouth Brethren. Although few people belong the the Plymouth Brethren Church, many Christians, particularly in the United States, believe in its founder's most enduring theological creation, the Rapture.

One of the reasosns for popularising Darby's system was the Scofield Reference Bible, a best-selling work published in 1909. It has been called "perhaps the most important single document in all fundamentalist literature." With sales in the millions, it became the version of The Bible through which Americans read their scriptures throughout much of the twentieth century. Scofield's notes and headings were woven in with the biblical text itself, elevating Darby's theology to a level of biblical authority that no previous writing had.

Mainstream Christian denominations such as the Catholic Church, Anglican Communion (which include the Episcopal Church), Presbytarian Church, Lutheran Church, Churches of Christ and others, reject Darby's scheme as "false theology." This theology has relatively little support outside the United States.