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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.
The belief that Jesus will come again is not new, and Christians have always taught that Jesus will return to earth and that believers should live in anticipation of his second coming. Darby's new teaching was that Christ would return twice. The first return would be in secret, to "Rapture" his church out of the world and up to heaven. Christ would return a second time after seven years of global tribulation for non-believers, to establish a Jerusalem-based kingdom on earth. The Rapture has no genuine biblical support, and many mainstream churches regard the notion as heresy.
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The 'Rapture' is a theological invention of John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren, in the nineteenth-century. The concept has evolved over a period of nearly two hundred years, but is still essentially the same as originally proposed by Darby.
Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says that Darby's new teaching was that Christ would return twice, first in secret to "Rapture" Christians out of the world and up to heaven, then a second time after seven years of global tribulation for non-believers, to establish a Jerusalem-based kingdom on earth. Of course, even if these events do occur one day, they would only affect a tiny proportion of Christians since nearly all the Christians who have ever lived would have quietly lived their lives and passed away in the fullness of time, oblivious to any "Rapture".
Rossing says that according to one critic, the Rapture has its origins with a young girl's vision. In 1830, in Port Glasgow, Scotland, fifteen-year-old Margaret MacDonald attended a healing service. There, she was said to have seen a vision of a two-stage return of Jesus Christ. The story of her vision was adopted and amplified by Darby. There is no good reason to believe there will ever be a Rapture or that the events portrayed by Darby will ever occur. John Nelson Darby has sunk into obscurity, apart from his followers in the Plymouth Brethren, and so should his theology.
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What is the Christian belief about after death?
the christian belief for what occurs after death is that your soul goes to Heaven and your body remains on Earth. When Jesus comes back rapture the bodies of his true believers will be extracted from the Earth and taken back to his Kingdom
What happens during Precipitation water cycle?
During precipitation, water comes back to earth surface. It comes back in the form of rain.
What will antarctica be like in a few years time?
it will still be the way it is because God created the earth and nothing on earth will change until he comes back for the rapture. He is the one and only God.the god of neptune and all of these other greek "gods" are fake. So to answer your question. no one knows what will happen. the rapture may come in those few years and everything will change. If the rapture does not happen.........It will stay the same.
What is it called when Jesus come back for his people and takes them back to heaven?
The word that describes Jesus coming to earth is called the rapture. Rapture means, "to transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the second coming of christ." I hope this helps!
Do you have to be Christin to be raptured?
The rapture is Jesus Christ coming back for His bride, the Church. So yes, you must be a Christian to be taken in the rapture.
Why is it only called rapture if it happens to a Christian but called demonic possession if a non-Christian experiences rapture?
Demonic possession in any case isn't referred to as rapture. What you are talking about are two completely different things. The rapture, according to some Christian denominations, is when Christ comes back seven years before the end of the world and "raptures" up all of his followers. Afterward there are seven years of horrible punishments rained down on the rest of mankind. Note that not all Christians believe in the rapture; the rapture and hellfire doctrines are confined mainly to the more fundamentalist Christian churches.
Can light send from earth comes back to the earth?
Yes; in fact, if you see the entire Moon at New Moon, the fact that the dark part is visibile at all is because of the light reflected back from Earth to the Moon. However, for most practical purposes, the amount of light that comes back to Earth is insignificant.
When is the water cycle completed?
It gets completed when water comes back to earth. It comes back int he form of snow, rain or sleet.
Is the moon in back of the earth or in the shadow in a lunar eclipse?
The moon is in Earth's shadow during a lunar eclipse. Earth doesn't have a definite front or back.
When the world ends how does it come back?
When Jesus comes back He will make a new heaven and new earth.
Is there a possibility that the sun will thy and what will happen to us if it dies?
The sun will die when Jesus comes back for the second time, (called the Rapture in the Bible). After he comes back, then the sun will go out and destruction of the universe will take place. Read Revelations in the Bible for yourself and beleive in what has been around for more than 1,000 years.
When was the rapture?
It hasn't happened yet.When John Nelson Darby created the idea of the Rapture, in 1830, he was careful not to state when it would actually happen. Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth and one of the principal modern proponents of the Rapture, decided that biblical prophecy required that it would occur within one generation, or forty years, of the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Barbara R. Rossing (The Rapture Exposed) says that as 1988 approached, with no sign of the Rapture to come, Lindsey began to back off from that statement. Another proponent of the Rapture, Harold Campling, pinned down the actual date of the Rapture, in May 2011. When this month came and went, Campling changed his prophecy to October 2011. But still no Rapture.No, the Rapture hasn't happened yet. But hey, it was only an idea.
