Anonymous ID: 6bacc4 Oct. 3, 2023, 9:48 a.m. No.19658214   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8245

>>19657920

>Aren't there a bunch of Fundamentalist Christians who believe in The Rapture?

>>19657939

>Whatever, they deserve everything they get for embracing the bullshit.

 

Christian eschatology is this very doctrine, though. It's not limited to fundamentalist, although the last Great Awakening from the 60s-80s hyper-focused on eschatology. The belief is that there's a coming sequence of events that determine the course of how the old heaven/earth are done away with, and God finally destroys them both and recreates them. It also has subscribers to variations of how this is supposed to happen depending on whether or not you are a pre/mid/post tribulationist or whether you are and extremist that buys into Christian Nationalism/Dominionism; you know, the lovely cunts that want to execute gays and people that listen to music that uses the pentatonic scale.

 

The doctrine behind the "Rapture" is wholly dependent on the combination of interpretations from Revelation and a single scripture from 1 Thessalonians 4:17 mashed together. It's not even good "doctrine" if one is to consider how to interpret allegorical literature on case-by-case basis as should be done with the books in the Bible. Instead, believers are steered to believe (errantly) that Genesis to Revelation is a continuous narrative instead of a compendium of individual myths meant to paint a picture of humans living in a world whose God couldn't make up their mind whether to be directly involved in their daily affairs (OT) or sacrifice his own son to Satan and let grace take over as the believers path (NT).

 

"Hey guys. I tried for centuries and even flooded the place to get you people to understand. So here's my kid. Eat his flesh and drink his blood, and submit to the authorities. I'll come back later. Better yet, I'll just send my son again, but next time he'll be a warrior king instead of a humble servant of humanity."

 

Instead, what the entirety of the Christian religion is built upon is that somehow these books (all of them) are prophetic (they aren't). The ones that seem that way are composed "after-the-fact", and the people that put the books together did so in such a way as to utilize the technique of topology to craft a narrative that has been consistent enough to seem intentional and planned while still allowing for individual interpretations that conflict with each other directly while maintaining a central theme, of sorts.

 

The illusion of choice inside of system of belief that are intended to keep you chasing your own tail while your livelihood and possessions are looted "in God's name" is one of the greatest atrocities against humanity ever committed.