Did you hear that Yesterday was supposed to be the rapture?

[lumineth Realm Lord]

I just heard about it a few minutes ago. I was at school yesterday, and saw no flying naked people. Did you see any flying naked people?

Just for fun, I called my uncle. If anyone fits the notion of a true Christian, it's him. He's a hard working and pious man who's spent his life raising a family and serving his community. He's still here.

Didn't they do this same shit in 2011? Did they do it afterwards?

 

[Morell]

Doomsday cults are very ancient traditions someone always takes on to keep it going. JW gave up already, but others will keep predicting end of the world.

From my own miserable perspective on Jesus and end times I interpret it that all of that had happened during time of disciples and after them. To explain: after death of Jesus there were Judeo Roman wars, as Jews rebelled and tried to free themselves. They were brutally defeated and it ended with Romans destroying their temple. Destroying the temple was exactly the end of the world for the Jews, because it totally destroyed their system of understanding of the world. Things stopped making sense and they had to literally reinvent their religion. That started Rabbi tradition that lasted till today. It was new world. And lo! After their destruction and diaspora a new figure of Christ, god on Earth came in rising Christianity and the ruler - Cesar and later the Pope! the one person that is the closes to the God, Jesus returned as a function. And what more? It lasted approx. 1000 years, so even the end of Apocalypse, thousand years empire happened too and it was a Christian one. (It took approx. 1000 years since formation of Church to it's breaking into multiple ones.)

So yeah, it's all big misunderstanding and dream that won't happen as people today hope in. Let them dream, if they want. We are going to survive like thousand raptures during our lifetimes, so... no big deal.

 

[beardedeldridge]

I heard something about it but like all of the other scheduled “raptures” I didn’t really pay attention.

It creates a bit of a self-contradictory proposition. Either the book you base your belief in a rapture on is true and everyone will be surprised by the timing (as it says) or you know when the rapture will happen and so the book’s authority on the event becomes quite suspect and therefore you (by knowing the date) are throwing the very thing you are basing your belief of the rapture on into question.

Just a thought.

-Eld