Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "The Origins of the Rapture" video.

I had always wondered where the notion of the rapture came from, as it is one of the many popular Christian ideas that isn't specifically written in the text. I think it was because his first bible was a Scofield that my father got so wrapped up in the idea during the Jesus Movement of the 70s, despite rapture not really part of the theology of the denomination he ended up in. Pretribulation rapture always seemed inexplicable to me, since modern America seemed to be one of the few places in time where the church did not experience what American Evangelicals would describe as tribulation between the first century and the modern day. It's kinda hard to believe in a pretribulation rapture when you grow up with horror stories about the treatment of Christians under Communism. I always wondered why would we be spared from what tens of millions of people across the entire planet in two millennia had not been spared from?
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