[Linux4christians] OT: Rapture: Fact or Fiction?

[Christopher Rose]

>From the "Augsburg Confession" of 1532


Confession:

Article XVII: Of Christ's Return to Judgment.

1] Also they teach that at the Consummation of the World Christ will appear for judgment, and 2] will raise up all the dead; He will give to the godly and elect eternal life and everlasting joys, 3] but ungodly men and the devils He will condemn to be tormented without end. 

4] They condemn the Anabaptists, who think that there will be an end to the punishments of condemned men and devils. 

5] They condemn also others who are now spreading certain Jewish opinions, that before the resurrection of the dead the godly shall take possession of the kingdom of the world, the ungodly being everywhere suppressed.

Confutation:

To Article XVII.

The confession of the seventeenth article is received, since from the Apostles' Creed and the Holy Scripture the entire Catholic Church knows that Christ will come at the last day to judge the quick and the dead. Therefore they justly condemn here the Anabaptists, who think there will be an end of punishments to condemned men and devils, and imagine certain Jewish kingdoms of the godly, before the resurrection of the dead, in this present world, the wicked being everywhere suppressed.

Defense:

Article XVII: Of Christ's Return to Judgment.

The Seventeenth Article the adversaries receive without exception, in which we confess that at the consummation of the world Christ shall appear, and shall raise up all the dead, and shall give to the godly eternal life and, eternal joys, but shall condemn the ungodly to be punished with the devil without end.



This predates the bulk majority of the rapture doctrines and has withstood the test of time in terms of Christian doctrine. The "rapture" is a product of twentieth century liberal theologians looking for a way to escape God's wrath, which we all justly deserve. The simple truth is that this primarily an American doctrine. The statistics I've heard say that most of the Christians throughout the world are amillenialists. I just happen to be one of them.


Christopher Rose
Harmonica Player
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
Lakewood WA






May 15, 2011 01:10:31 AM, usacomputertech at mindblowingidea.com wrote:

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      I agree that there will not be a rapture from my point of view.
    
    On 05/14/2011 07:49 PM, Fred A. Miller wrote:    
      
      Fred
      
      Many pastors and modern prophecy writers teach that the Church      will be raptured off the earth prior to a seven year tribulation.      Where in the Bible is this found? Nowhere. Confused? Watch this      edition of Vantage Point for an honest look at the      “rapture”.
      
      http://americanvision.org/4477/rapture-fact-or-fiction/
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