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Originally Posted by Daoust
Do you mean will there come a time, after which Christians will give up believing in a Rapture?
No, but there will be a time, after all the Christians are raptured right before the worlds very eyes, that those left behind will make up excuses for what has happened, and they'll believe it. Hundreds of thousands of Christians will disappear into thin air in a 'blink of an eye', and all the world will witness it, and yet in a few short years everyone will totally forget it ever happened. It's called the great lie, brought forth by the anti-Christ, who of course you will not believe in if you don't believe the Bible.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about. Why believe in that? It's so limiting and intentionally exclusionary.
Why not believe in joy happiness and peace for everyone, regardless of what they do or do not believe in? The only reason I can think of that you wouldn't
want to believe in the all-inclusive rapture as opposed to the significantly exclusive rapture is because you want other people to do what you think is best instead of letting them live their lives as they feel is best.
I.E., it's simply a form of control. It has nothing to do with being "saved" or experiencing happiness or whatever. It has to do with threats and warnings to toe an arbitrary line. Faith allows you to do anything. That someone would use it to exclude millions of people is ultimately saddening, and I would say, anti-spiritual.