(December 11, 2010 at 6:20 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:About 1,700 years later, the concept of the rapture, in connection with premillennialism, was expressed by the American Puritan father and son Increase and Cotton Mather. They held to the idea that believers would be caught up in the air, followed by judgments on the earth and then the millennium.[19][20] The term rapture was used by Philip Doddridge (1738) and John Gill (1748) in their New Testament commentaries, with the idea that believers would be caught up prior to judgment on the earth and Jesus' Second Coming. The Baptist Morgan Edwards articulated the concept of a pre-tribulation rapture in an essay published in 1788 in Philadelphia.[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture
Frankly, I can't wait for the Rapture, anything to remove The Palin family off the face of the earth!
I find this whole end times/rapture thing rather fascinating. WTH is wrong with people that all they can wait for is the end of the world? Obviously they have "life" missing in their lives. There are some mega church movements putting money into fulfillment of "prophecies" in order to get Jesus off of his heavenly ass and down here on earth to start all the torture and killing of nonbelievers. The only thing that makes sense to me is that these fundies have been stockpiling guns and munitions and training I guess to be ready to fight in the JC Army!
For the longest time my thoughts on Revelations is that someone had some moldy rye with that sacrificed and alter cooked goat.
The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
