Did the rapture rupture?

[Xipe Totec]

Wear clean underwear, guys The rapture cometh....

SAN FRANCISCO — A California ministry has again predicted the end of the world is at hand.

The Oakland-based Family Radio International that stirred a global frenzy when it predicted the rapture would take 200 million Christians to heaven on May 21, now says the cataclysmic event will destroy the globe on Friday.

That's today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/calif-christian-group-recalculates-biblical-math-now-says-rapture-and-end-of-world-is-friday/2011/10/21/gIQAl85r2L_story.html

[FarCenter]

1. Still here

Camping must be another victim of our inadequate math education.

[hobbit709]

2. It ruptured since camping's logic skills are equal to his math skills.

[hifiguy]

3. Religulous dimwits have been predicting the end of the world

for the last millennium-plus. We're still here. Chances are pretty fair that we still will be tomorrow.

[originalpckelly]

4. It's raining fire AND brimstone where we are.

But then again that could just be the result of last night's chili.

[pipi_k]

7. Oh, that explains...

the occasional flaming bean flying over my house...

[nolabear]

5. AGAIN with the no rapture? I was hoping for some prime real estate.

Ah well, there's always 2012 and the Mayans.

[MrScorpio]

6. I gots yer Rapture right chere

[IcyPeas]

8. traffic was definitely lighter this morning

[spin]

9. The comcept of the "Rapture" was developed in the 17th-century ...

Rapture

In some modern traditions of Christian eschatology, the Rapture is a reference to the "being caught up" referred to in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, when, in the End Times, the Christians of the world will be gathered together in the air to meet Jesus Christ.<1> Rapture is used in at least two senses, in the sense of pre-tribulation views in which a group of people will be "left behind" and as a synonym for the Resurrection generally.<2><3><4><5>

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Doctrinal history

The concept of the Rapture, in connection with premillennialism, was expressed by the 17th-century American Puritan father and son Increase and Cotton Mather. They held to the idea that believers would be caught up in the air, followed by judgments on the Earth, and then the millennium.<14><15> The term Rapture was used by Philip Doddridge<16> and John Gill<17> in their New Testament commentaries, with the idea that believers would be caught up prior to judgment on the Earth and Jesus' Second Coming....emphasis added

There exists at least one 18th century and two 19th century pre-Tribulation references: in an essay published in 1788 in Philadelphia by the Baptist Morgan Edwards which articulated the concept of a pre-Tribulation Rapture,<18> in the writings of Catholic priest Emmanuel Lacunza in 1812,<19> and by John Nelson Darby in 1827.<20> However, both the book published in 1788 and the writings of Lacunza have opposing views regarding their interpretations. Emmanuel Lacunza (1731–1801), a Jesuit priest, (under the pseudonym Juan Josafat Ben Ezra) wrote an apocalyptic work entitled La venida del Mesías en gloria y majestad (The Coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty). The book appeared first in 1811, 10 years after his death. In 1827, it was translated into English by the Scottish minister Edward Irving.

Dr. Samuel Prideaux Tregelles (1813-1875), a prominent English theologian and biblical scholar, wrote a pamphlet in 1866 tracing the concept of the Rapture through the works of John Darby back to Edward Irving.<21>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

[ladyVet]

10. AGAIN??!!11!?

::::grumbles while updating salvage map::::

[sakabatou]

11. TIme to move the goalposts!