Internet is rife with discussion of Rapture, which is the latest forecast by Harold Camping says will happen on Saturday. Most of the people, and I think even most Christians, at best, skeptical.
As someone who came to personal faith at the same time that the notorious pamphlet, Edgar Whisenant was to draw attention, 88 reasons why the Rapture Will Be in 1988, I experienced advertising such predictions from first-hand.
But that's not why I am sure that Harold Camping is wrong.
Many believe that camping is wrong because the Bible quotes Jesus said that "no one knows the day and hour" (Matt. 24:36).
Others understand the Bible better, and it is known that extracts applied to the support of the doctrine of Rapture (for example, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17) does not teach the idea of Rapture followed by grief, that is the basis of preliminary Millennialist Dispensational eschatology.
But instead of spending time discussing the places (or explanation of the last words of the last paragraph), I would suggest a more fundamental reason why the Rapture will not happen this Saturday, or on any other day:
This makes no sense for Christians to continue to expect to literally "second coming" of Jesus.
According to Anthony, and a book by Richard Hanson founded suspicion, "the events that were just around the corner for thousands of years is not an event. Thinking Christians must not behave as if the Parousia was a real possibility" (p.196).
Jesus expected the arrival of the Kingdom of God in the lives of his listeners (see Mark 9:1), and the early Christians shared this expectation. When this did not happen as expected, they found different ways of thinking about it. But today, referring to 2 Peter 3:8, which itself is part of the inaccurate letter attributed to Peter and tries to solve the frustration of Christians, that these expectations are not met, it's just perpetuating the problem rather than address it directly.
It is not only possible, what is the problem. The idea of the second coming of Jesus appearing in the sky based view of the universe that the sky is literally "out there" that is also difficult if not impossible for those who accept today without serious cognitive dissonance.
Discussing the literal ascension Luke describes in Acts, Keith Ward writes in his book "The Big Questions in Science and Religion (p. 107):" We now know that if [Jesus] began to increase in two thousand years ago, he would not yet left of the Milky Way (if he has reached the rate of strain). "
The time finally comes when, instead of clinging to older convictions, regardless of how central they were historically, it is time to reconsider them, and maybe even set them aside in some cases.
As someone who came to personal faith at the same time that the notorious pamphlet, Edgar Whisenant was to draw attention, 88 reasons why the Rapture Will Be in 1988, I experienced advertising such predictions from first-hand.
But that's not why I am sure that Harold Camping is wrong.
Many believe that camping is wrong because the Bible quotes Jesus said that "no one knows the day and hour" (Matt. 24:36).
Others understand the Bible better, and it is known that extracts applied to the support of the doctrine of Rapture (for example, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17) does not teach the idea of Rapture followed by grief, that is the basis of preliminary Millennialist Dispensational eschatology.
But instead of spending time discussing the places (or explanation of the last words of the last paragraph), I would suggest a more fundamental reason why the Rapture will not happen this Saturday, or on any other day:
This makes no sense for Christians to continue to expect to literally "second coming" of Jesus.
According to Anthony, and a book by Richard Hanson founded suspicion, "the events that were just around the corner for thousands of years is not an event. Thinking Christians must not behave as if the Parousia was a real possibility" (p.196).
Jesus expected the arrival of the Kingdom of God in the lives of his listeners (see Mark 9:1), and the early Christians shared this expectation. When this did not happen as expected, they found different ways of thinking about it. But today, referring to 2 Peter 3:8, which itself is part of the inaccurate letter attributed to Peter and tries to solve the frustration of Christians, that these expectations are not met, it's just perpetuating the problem rather than address it directly.
It is not only possible, what is the problem. The idea of the second coming of Jesus appearing in the sky based view of the universe that the sky is literally "out there" that is also difficult if not impossible for those who accept today without serious cognitive dissonance.
Discussing the literal ascension Luke describes in Acts, Keith Ward writes in his book "The Big Questions in Science and Religion (p. 107):" We now know that if [Jesus] began to increase in two thousand years ago, he would not yet left of the Milky Way (if he has reached the rate of strain). "
The time finally comes when, instead of clinging to older convictions, regardless of how central they were historically, it is time to reconsider them, and maybe even set them aside in some cases.
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