I Am Still Here or the Heresy of the Rapture

I Am Still Here or the Heresy of the Rapture

Once more, another prediction by a "Bible Believing" protestant about the end of the world has come and gone and the 1840s heresy and fantasy of the Rapture has not passed as it never will.

For almost two hundred years, the ever more heretical branches of the protestant heresy, itself diverging, as the only logical end results, of the Papal heresy that led to the Great Schism of 1056AD, sundering the One True Church, has made a mockery of Christianity.

The Rapture fantasy, where all the holy of holiest protestants (which of the 60,000+ branches that includes no one seems to agree on) will simply disappear to avoid any suffering, while the rest of humanity, to include the rest of Christianity will be Left Behind to face pain and suffering, has plagued Christianity as a whole.

First, let us look closely at the idiocy of the Rapture. The Rapture first appeared in 1830s with the prediction of Christ's coming in 1841, by a US preacher named Miller. He caused a massive uproar in the Anglo world, with tens of thousands giving up their lives, dressing up in white robes and heading to the mountains to meet God....as if one must be on a mountain side to meet God, like some pagan local deity that can only be contact in certain places. The "Great Disappointment", that is, the day after, led many to abandon Christianity and others to twist the non-event around so as to continue predicting further non-events.

That Anglo protestants, who rarely know any real suffering for their faith, think of themselves as the only saved and true Christians, worthy of instant salvation, while Christians who are persecuted throughout the Islamic, Jewish, Hindu and pagan world are to continue suffering and sacrificing, shows the true power of self-righteousness, self-love and self-absorption....in other words the sins of Pride and Vanity.

Men like Miller and now Herald Camping, these self taught and self appointed "holy men" whose intellectual and philosophical roots go only as deep as their own egos, are a plague upon Christianity, serving ever so actively the very being they claim to oppose: Satan.

Though to blinding by Pride and Vanity, these false prophets and fools, and protestantism, with its absolute lack of controls on its preachers, is chuck full of them, lead millions of souls into false teachings, one worse then the other and thus into damnation. Those who see the light of these false teachers, often enough, pull so far away that they leave Christianity all together, again achieving the Devil's goals of damnation.

Protestantism has led to many and will continue to lead to many evil and despotic heresies: the Anabaptists, Calvinism and its predestination heresy, Jim Jones, Miller, Camping, Mormonism and many many others. These cults are a plague on Christianity and humanity as a whole.

Why does the Orthodox Church not suffering from these types of epidemics? Quite simply, because our Christian philosophy is not based on the interpretations or more often misinterpretations of one man and his personal ego. Our philosophy is based upon two thousand years of knowledge of Christ and His teachings. They are based first upon the Word of Christ Himself and then upon those of His Apostles. The next layer is made up of the knowledge and wisdom of the Church Fathers, saints and Holy Hermits, all who spent their lives in prayer and dedication to God, not seeking fame or money but humility and sacrifice.

Thus the Church, the Orthodox Church, has and will continue to be the steady hand, the non-changing faith, as brought to us by God Himself in the persona of the Son.

For those who now face shattered lives after yet another false belief proven to be a tired, old man's vanity, I urge you to seek the True Christian Faith in the form of The Orthodox Church.