Ok, with 29 pages, I haven't read all of the discussion. So if I'm repeating something already posted, I apologize in advance. And it will probably be completely useless to point out, but here goes:
The "Rapture" isn't Biblical. It didn't exist anywhere before 1830. It was invented by John Nelson Darby.
Darby did have one predecessor: Morgan Edwards, who wrote a short essay as a college paper for Bristol Baptist College in Bristol England in 1744 where he confused the second coming with the first resurrection of Revelation 20 and described a "pre-tribulation" rapture. The rapture is a fantasy that has infected quite a few churches and been embraced by many fringe sects that are drawn to "end of the world" scenarios.
The "Rapture" isn't Biblical. It didn't exist anywhere before 1830. It was invented by John Nelson Darby.
Darby did have one predecessor: Morgan Edwards, who wrote a short essay as a college paper for Bristol Baptist College in Bristol England in 1744 where he confused the second coming with the first resurrection of Revelation 20 and described a "pre-tribulation" rapture. The rapture is a fantasy that has infected quite a few churches and been embraced by many fringe sects that are drawn to "end of the world" scenarios.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein