My mom has hit 80, and I think she is disappointed that the rapture isn't going to happen in her lifetime. I guess that is her own version of rapture anxiety!

Anonymous wrote:I went to a very conservative Christian school. I had rapture anxiety but mine was about hoping I got to have sex before the rapture! Hahahahah! Not even joking.

I love you! Also grew up in a very conservative evangelical family.

Anonymous wrote:I believe in "the rapture" if that's what you call the events in the Book of Revelation. Most WILL be left behind. But no, I don't experience anxiety about it, and I never knew anyone who did. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

I don't think so. Most of my peers felt this way. This fear is what drove us to heed the countless altar calls and "re-dedications". These legalistic, fear-based Protestant denominations absolutely pedal this stuff. IDK about anymore, but they definitely did back in the 1970s and 80s when I was growing up.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent the majority of my teen years afraid of being left behind. Couldn’t even bring myself to read the books or watch the movies.

I was told that if you were really saved that you’d have peace, but never did. Even got saved and baptised, rededicated my life. It was that doubt that led to my deconstruction.

Big hugs to you. God loves you. Always and forever, no matter what.

Do you understand that the poster before you is no longer a believer? Seems odd that you'd assure such a person that they are love by a god they don't believe in.

It’s not odd. PP is intentionally being disrespectful of the other PP’s beliefs.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent the majority of my teen years afraid of being left behind. Couldn’t even bring myself to read the books or watch the movies.

I was told that if you were really saved that you’d have peace, but never did. Even got saved and baptised, rededicated my life. It was that doubt that led to my deconstruction.

Big hugs to you. God loves you. Always and forever, no matter what.

Do you understand that the poster before you is no longer a believer? Seems odd that you'd assure such a person that they are love by a god they don't believe in.

Anonymous wrote:I spent the majority of my teen years afraid of being left behind. Couldn’t even bring myself to read the books or watch the movies.

I was told that if you were really saved that you’d have peace, but never did. Even got saved and baptised, rededicated my life. It was that doubt that led to my deconstruction.

Big hugs to you. God loves you. Always and forever, no matter what.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe in "the rapture" if that's what you call the events in the Book of Revelation. Most WILL be left behind. But no, I don't experience anxiety about it, and I never knew anyone who did. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

Do you assume that you will go up in the rapture? or maybe you don't care about being left behind.

I do hope I go up. I am lapsed in my religion, and I do struggle with that and what that means.

Anonymous wrote:I spent the majority of my teen years afraid of being left behind. Couldn’t even bring myself to read the books or watch the movies.

I was told that if you were really saved that you’d have peace, but never did. Even got saved and baptised, rededicated my life. It was that doubt that led to my deconstruction.

Are you saying that you don't believe anymore?

I spent the majority of my teen years afraid of being left behind. Couldn’t even bring myself to read the books or watch the movies.

I was told that if you were really saved that you’d have peace, but never did. Even got saved and baptised, rededicated my life. It was that doubt that led to my deconstruction.

I grew up being told Gorbachev's birthmark was the mark of the beast and the apocalypse was nigh. Then Y2k. Then, on and on, to the black liberal President who had handed over the country to the liberals (but was a simultaneous miraculous sign that, see, all racism was ended). This is built into the DNA, it is the spirit blowing wind in the sails that keeps the ship afloat and the money flowing.

Anonymous wrote:I believe in "the rapture" if that's what you call the events in the Book of Revelation. Most WILL be left behind. But no, I don't experience anxiety about it, and I never knew anyone who did. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

Do you assume that you will go up in the rapture? or maybe you don't care about being left behind.

I believe in "the rapture" if that's what you call the events in the Book of Revelation. Most WILL be left behind. But no, I don't experience anxiety about it, and I never knew anyone who did. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would there be anxiety over this? Either you believe you’ll be taken up or you don’t believe and don’t care.

It's not that simple. The underlying message is you're never good enough so the anxiety is that you won't be good enough to go and will therefore be left behind to fend for yourself, alone.

I grew up like this - real, constant anxiety. It took me years to work this out.

Wow. I'm so sorry that your parents subjected you to that.

Anonymous wrote:There is only one second coming of Christ and nothing in between. Be prepared to withstand the end times because salvation alone, righteous living and a relationship with Christ will be the only thing to save you.

What happens if you don't?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would there be anxiety over this? Either you believe you’ll be taken up or you don’t believe and don’t care.

It's not that simple. The underlying message is you're never good enough so the anxiety is that you won't be good enough to go and will therefore be left behind to fend for yourself, alone.

I grew up like this - real, constant anxiety. It took me years to work this out.

Right -- people who believe it, hope they are good enough to be taken up and may worry that they are not.