As I was driving one day I encountered a bumper sticker admonishing me:Read the rest here.
“WARNING! In the event of Rapture, this car will be driverless.”
The strange belief in the Rapture teaches that some day (sooner rather than later), without warning, born-again Christians will begin to float up from the freeway, abandoned vehicles careening wildly. There will be airliners in the sky suddenly with no one at the controls! Presumably, God is removing these favored ones from earth to spare them the tribulation of the Anti-Christ which the rest of us will have to endure.
Unfortunately the Rapture has been promoted widely by the Left Behind series of books that have sold over 70 million copies.
The Rapture represents a radical misinterpretation of Scripture. I remember watching “Sixty Minutes”a year ago and was appalled to hear the announcer say that “the Rapture is an unmistakenly Christian doctrine”. It is not!
It is a serious distortion of Scripture.
Being a Disciple of Christ
8 hours ago
3 comments:
I've seen a bumper sticker that says,
"In case of the Rapture, can I have your car?"
Funny how they can so easily fall for this yet any thought of the Theotokos being "raptured" or assumed into heaven is met with laugh and scorn.
Ditto
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