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A year after Rev Harold Camping\u2019s followers messed up on doomsday and the rapture didn\u2019t happen Patrick Archbold links to a sympathetic article<\/a> on the followers who were\u00a0\u201cleft behind\u201d when Jesus didn\u2019t turn up in glory. They didn\u2019t experience the rapture, but they did experience a rupture\u2013in their belief system. Matt notices that this article observes that \u201cmost mainstream Christians\u201d believe in the rapture, and he goes on to point out that this just ain\u2019t so. Read his post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was brought up in a fundamentalist church that followed dispensationalist theology. This is a theological system devised by a Protestant Bible scholar called C.I. Schofield. His basic thesis is that God\u2019s work in the world occurs in different time periods or \u201cdispensations\u201d. God\u2019s message to humanity and work within history happens different ways in different times. This dispensationalist theology is the foundational system for all the \u201cend times\u201d prophecies that abound in this sort of Protestantism. It involves a the \u201crapture\u201d in which Jesus returns supernaturally and takes all believers to heaven\u2013leaving the wicked behind to suffer seven years of tribulation before the final return of Christ and the Last Battle of Armageddon. The writer of the article Matt quotes can be forgiven for saying that this \u201cend times\u201d stuff is \u201cmainstream\u201d because it is mainstream within American Evangelicalism. This reveals the incredible ignorance of the typical American about historic Christianity. The writer clearly has a blind spot and can only call this form of American Evangelicalism \u201cmainstream\u201d because he doesn\u2019t even see Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Anglicanism and the other Christian groups.<\/p>\n

However, this is not the core problem. The main difficulty is with Dispensationalism itself. Some time ago I wrote this article <\/a>about the whole \u201cLeft Behind\u201d phenomenon. Check out that article, but also stop to consider the problems with Dispensationalism itself. The fact that this kind of religion is considered \u201cmainstream\u201d in America says an awful lot that is disturbing about American religion and stuff that is even more disturbing about the American Evangelical mainstream. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"