Talk:Rapture

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Rapture Ready

Is there room on the article for this hilarious website? Including it's remarkable Rapture Index, the 'prophetic speedometer of end-time activity'? (we don't have long to add it, though - we are currently at the 'fasten your seat belts' level) seventhrib 06:19, 12 February 2009 (EST)

My contribution...

I was about to make a comment about my whimsical contribution to this article, but it got deleted before I even had the chance. Oh well, here is the pre-excised version. Aryan = Blondie, for the record. I was trying to present in the format of the bogus Mayan nonsense that floats around. Voxhumana (talk) 06:44, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

I liked it, though I didn't get it until the man from Mars. Restored - David Gerard (talk) 22:12, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

JWs and the rapture

The part on rapture predictions is wrong. JWs do not believe in the rapture. I have a publication which explicitly says that this doctrine is considered unbiblical (aka false). The dates they've publicized refer to the start of the Armageddon, which is an entirely different thing and does not involve anyone being disappeared by God. In an ideal case a JW would expect to live through the Armageddon, as only unbelievers will be killed in the war, then live forever on Earth without ever dying. --Tweenk (talk) 02:04, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

No Biblical basis

I guess the article should mention at one point that there is no Biblical basis for the Rapture. At the earliest it is a five hundred years old doctrine, and possibly more recent (I'll have to check). In fact, the occurence of the Rapture would actually prove the Bible wrong, because Christians are supposed to be persecuted during the Tribulation.--173.237.243.124 (talk) 06:40, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

The article does mention that Darby created the idea by use of a single verse from 1st Thessalonians-though that could be expanded upon to note how concocted the idea is-stitching together the disparate verses independent of context in a manner comparable to conspiracy theorists. Arachne1988 (talk) 06:48, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Any way to tell between these two?

Is there some way to distinguish between "Rapture happened and nobody made the cut" and "Rapture is going to happen but not right now"? [[User:K61824|]][[User_talk:K61824|]] 22:22, 4 August 2016 (UTC)