(December 11, 2010 at 6:20 pm)padraic Wrote: The ironic thing about the end time and the rapture is that it's a modern invention,it has never been part of mainstream Christianity but has always been restricted to the lunar religious right. A few nutty Catholics wrote about it but the idea has never been a part of Catholic dogma.
As I see it, before Christianity was made a state religion by Constantine, pre-millennialism was dominant, only after Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire, amillennialism became dominant. 1000 years later the reformation came and people went "back to basics", when it came to doctrine and started to question amillennialism. I do believe Pre-millennialism has biblical support, because amillennial assumptions such as Satan being bound have little bible justification. Although doctrines like the rapture are recent inventions which have proven popular.
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