Increasing natural disasters are raising the rapture index, leading some Christians to believe the Second Coming is near. Whether you see earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis as natural disasters or acts of God, this has been a bad year for the world and a good one for the rapture index. The index, a feature on the Web site http://www.raptureready.com/, is a measure of how quickly the world is careening toward the Second Coming of Christ. On a good day, it claims 15,000 hits.
Read more:Nancy Haught, Religion News Service
http://www.beliefnet.com/story/178/story_17894_1.html
This has been one of my favourite time wastin' websites for some time. The FAQ section is a maddening series of explanations and defenses of Christiantiy, riddled with all kinds of subjective opinions regarding the interpretation of Biblical texts.
ReplyDeleteThe so-called "rapture" is not biblical. It wasn't even taught about until the late 1800's. I have studied the subject in great detail have written a study entitled: "Rapture Theory." You can read it at http://gospelarmor.blogspot.com/2005/02/rapture-theory.html
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