![]() ![]() The Rapture Exposed reclaims Christianity from fundamentalists' destructive reading of the biblical story and back into God's beloved community." end quote The truth, Rossing argues, is that Revelation offers a vision of God's healing love for the world. ![]() In The Rapture Exposed, Barbara Rossing argues that this script for the world's future is nothing more than a disingenuous distortion of the Bible. This interpretation, based on a psychology of fear and destruction, guides the daily acts of thousands if not millions of people worldwide. What the Rapture is NOT: "The idea of “The Rapture”-the return of Christ to rescue and deliver Christians off the earth-is an extremely popular interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and a jumping-off point for the best-selling “Left Behind” series of books. This is being written for busy people with little time for long reads we'll keep it as short as possible while still making sense. Because few people seem to have a clear Biblical understanding of the concept of the Rapture, let's take a good look at what this teaching entails. ![]()
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