Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
@GayDeceiver
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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
It’s like 90% of what is presented as ‘traditional’ ‘biblical’ christianity: invented and solidified in the last century or so.
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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
@GayDeceiver Yup. Would have probably been considered heresy in the middle ages.
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@GayDeceiver writing from Germany I had to look up Christian Rapture in the dictionary and my impression: it seems to be something very American.
@Josteglitz @GayDeceiver Darby (the guy who invented the concept) was Irish I think. But his ideas only really took off when they were added as study notes to the Scofield Reference Bible, which sold like hotcakes in the United States. So you're correct, quite American.
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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
@GayDeceiver Didn't know about the fall before now. So, he's like Doc Brown but with really bad theology.
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@Josteglitz @GayDeceiver Darby (the guy who invented the concept) was Irish I think. But his ideas only really took off when they were added as study notes to the Scofield Reference Bible, which sold like hotcakes in the United States. So you're correct, quite American.
@FrChazzz @Josteglitz @GayDeceiver yeah the same. No rapture in Luther's bible.
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@whybird @deirdrebeth @GayDeceiver apparently expansion on Thessalonians 4:17
"After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." -
And I want to tell everyone who thinks that the second coming is just around the corner, that the rapture already happened and they are stuck with the rest of us to fight the final battle between good and evil
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @GayDeceiver And the MAGAts have sided with the antichrist. You know, assuming Revelations is true, and not just the ravings of a Bronze Age lunatic.
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@GayDeceiver one wonders if that's what got Revelations written, too
It was Nero's persecution of early Christians that got Revelations written.
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@GayDeceiver one wonders if that's what got Revelations written, too
@kinsale42 @GayDeceiver Tha Latin 'rapio' is Vulgata's 4th century tranlation of the Greek 'harpazo', meaning 'to snatch, to carry away'. – This is the word used in the Thessalonians quoted above.
Personally, I would much prefer to be spirited away by the Japanese gods in the Miyazaki's anime.
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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
Ellen G. White, of the Seventh Day Adventists, got hit in the face with a stone.
Mary Baker Eddy, of Church of Christ, Scientist, slipped on ice and hit her head.
I wonder if there are other hits to the head leading to the creation of new religions?

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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
The worst thing the powerful, old, white men ever did with religion was convince others they couldn't find divinity within themselves - because humans are 'too broken' - and that the divine can only be found externally.
At least, that's what the mushrooms told me.

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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
@GayDeceiver
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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
@GayDeceiver i dont know...you sound.quite deceptive...and gay.
(Now to get serious and not make user name jokes)
A lot of that stuff was added later, but they all accept it as coming from "god"{Starts talking in giberish nonsense}
[Hi this is the person behind her, its not giberish, what shes speaking is a super rare sumerian latin Dutch dialect, and i just happen to speak it, what it means is "god is telling his children to shut the fuck up for a whole 10 years ]

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@kinsale42 @GayDeceiver Tha Latin 'rapio' is Vulgata's 4th century tranlation of the Greek 'harpazo', meaning 'to snatch, to carry away'. – This is the word used in the Thessalonians quoted above.
Personally, I would much prefer to be spirited away by the Japanese gods in the Miyazaki's anime.
@TazPoltorak @kinsale42 @GayDeceiver nah...i want to get on the cat bus from "my neighbour totoro"
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Ellen G. White, of the Seventh Day Adventists, got hit in the face with a stone.
Mary Baker Eddy, of Church of Christ, Scientist, slipped on ice and hit her head.
I wonder if there are other hits to the head leading to the creation of new religions?

@isol @GayDeceiver add: St. Paul falling off his horse and suddenly becoming a Christian
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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
@GayDeceiver Renegade Cut did a masterful video on this, the Left Behind series, and how all of that infected US politics.
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Ellen G. White, of the Seventh Day Adventists, got hit in the face with a stone.
Mary Baker Eddy, of Church of Christ, Scientist, slipped on ice and hit her head.
I wonder if there are other hits to the head leading to the creation of new religions?

People are suckers for stories in which someone overcomes something, and if that person is clever enough to invoke The Devine Whatever, they start flocking to that person.
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@GayDeceiver writing from Germany I had to look up Christian Rapture in the dictionary and my impression: it seems to be something very American.
It is. And so, many entitled American assholes think they own 'the true religion' and want to dominate the world, saying they are what Jesus wanted et cetera ad infinitum ad nauseam.
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Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
I didn't even knew about it. (But I'm a french catholic.)
And "Sodom and Gomorrah" being a "proof that homosexuality is a sin" was inserted around the same time by a new Bible translation. In Germany if I remember correctly.
It is really recent.
Before that, the sin of Sodom and Gomorra was systematical rape of foreigners by big groups of men of the city. On men, women and children.
I personally think the mix up between "homosexuality" and "pedophilia" started at the same time, allowing the "mistranslation".
(and witch hunts started at the Rennaissance, witches were generally tolerated by the church in the middle age)