[TheRealThing]

You've fallen off the rocker on this idea of the myth of the Rapture. Yes.. Myth. Believing in it is as destructive as the man having incest homosexual relations with his own son. No, I didn't equate the two. So don't go there. Destruction is destruction regardless of the cause. Both are destructive to the soul.

Tell ya what... Through your bible out the window for just a moment. Tell me, what year was the first mention of the 'rapture'? Go ahead... I'll wait.

Let me get this straight, first you want me to throw my Bible out, and secondly you want me to tell you the exact year the Rapture was first mentioned, correct?

Sorry, all you get is the answer to what year the Rapture was first mentioned. It was AD 51, the year the Apostle Paul authored I Thessalonians.

1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 (KJV)
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.




The words caught up, can also be translated raptured. Now, would you like to know when the last trump shall sound? Oh and BTW, sorry to keep you waiting but I don't sit on top of my PC waiting to respond there Ronald.