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The thread about Armageddon and it's references to the rapture got me thinking about what those who believe it's really going to happen and how it would take place. I've seen the bumper stickers on cars alerting me that this particular vehicle could suddenly be missing a driver and veer out of control. It appears to me that the common belief is that the physical bodies of those who are rapture bound are suddenly going to fly up into the sky. From a purely practical and common sense perspective how could a human body go flying through the roof of a moving automobile, from inside an office building, or any other enclosed space without being ripped to pieces when it strikes metal, concrete or whatever material happens to be in the way? And if they miraculously passed through steel or concrete without a scratch where in the world are they actually headed? Are they going to outer space or just to some higher altitude where they'll be organized into one large group from all over the planet?
Surely anyone should be able to recognize why someone like myself could be extremely skeptical about such an event ever taking place. Anyway, I'm just wondering what those who believe in the rapture think is going to take place and how a frail human body could survive such an experience.
I would think it would be the sudden removal of the spirit from the body, just for practical reasons. It seems that the "soul" would be made of pure energy. Seeing as energy, or light, is the only thing that can travel at the speed of light, then that is what must happen. As anything with mass nears the speed of light, it will expand to fill the entire Universe.
The idea of the "rapture" is wrong anyway. The whole book of revelations was written by a hermit, living in a cave, doing mushrooms. It was a halucination, nothing more. The reason that the Nicean council decided to put it in their biblical canon, was because they needed an ending. They also needed something to keep people in line.
In all actuality, the "beast" and the "anti-Christ" were Roman figures, probably Nero.
Of course Christians don't want to believe that, at least some of them. Most realize that revelations was just a fairy tell mind trip written down a long time ago.
We're talking about God here, magic, anything can happen. So let's make up some possibilities for the kicks.
1. God could freeze time and send His angels down to gather His flock. When an angel touches the raptured they "wake up", get out of their vehicles or are lead out of buildings despite the massive forces against a body moving with a wall of air that can't be displaced because it is frozen in time, oh but of course it can because this is "magic". Then the angels fly them to God. Or maybe God just teleports them all to Him causing all kinds of sonic booms around the world from the inrushing air filling their space.
2. God turns the raptured into superheroes, like X-Men's Shadowcat, with the ability to pass through solid matter by altering the vibratory rates of their atoms or some such and also gifts them with the ability to fly, like way faster than light. Or maybe He gives them teleporting abilities...
3. God causes them to shift into another dimension through space time rifts, right into Heaven.
The thread about Armageddon and it's references to the rapture got me thinking about what those who believe it's really going to happen and how it would take place. I've seen the bumper stickers on cars alerting me that this particular vehicle could suddenly be missing a driver and veer out of control.
Cars with those bumper stickers are the safest ones to be behind in the event of the Rapture. The drivers are committing the sin of pride, presuming to know that God is going to whisk them to heaven, so I exprect he'll leave them in their vehicles.
God will use the same magic that allowed a T Rex to survive on a wooden boat built by a 900 year old Jew.
All I care about is all the free stuff that will be laying around for the taking once all of the christers disappear.
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