LDS - Rapture or no? (Jesus, beliefs, myth, scriptures)

Bishka · #1 01-12-2007, 08:52 PM

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This thread will be about the LDS belief of a rapture.

Thank you.

Mister Emu · #2 01-14-2007, 08:07 PM

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The end times is a huge topic. do you have a more specific question or should I suggest about 10 books to read?

10 books would be nice, but I have a bit on my reading plate right now...
How about a series of questions?
Do you believe in a rapture?

Bishka · #3 01-14-2007, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Mister Emu

Do you believe in a rapture?

Not in the sense of the "poof-and-you-dissapear" kind.

Mister Emu · #4 01-14-2007, 08:11 PM

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Not in the sense of the "poof-and-you-dissapear" kind.

Care to elaborate?

Katzpur · #5 01-14-2007, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mister Emu

Do you believe in a rapture?

You know what? I'm not even 100% positive of what that means. It's a word I have never once heard in an LDS worship service.

Bishka · #6 01-14-2007, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Mister Emu

Care to elaborate?

Maybe

I'm not to learned in the subject. All I can give you at the moment without some research is that we don't believe in the 'rapture' idea that some fundamentalist Christians believe in.

Bishka · #7 01-14-2007, 08:17 PM

If you are referring to the Millenium, I can give you a couple key points we believe:

The ushering in of the Millennium will occur with the Second Coming of Christ
Christ will reign on earth for the space of a thousand years
In the Millenium, Satan will be bound and unable to tempt any person

There isn't any mention of the 'rapture' in any LDS services that I know of.

FFH · #8 01-14-2007, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Emu

Do you believe in a rapture?

The "rapture," as it was coined, by an early Christian woman, I forget her name at the moment, is just a term to describe an event in which we will be "caught up" to meet the Lord in the air at his coming.

This event is in our LDS scriptures as well as the Bible and is referred to as being "caught up" or a "catching away" of the saints.

It's there it's just not discussed in LDS meetings at all for some reason....

I'll post the scriptures and let you decide what you think or make of it....

And yes we do believe we will literally disappear, as the LDS scriptures state....