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I often hear stories from people about how they moved away from Christianity due to religious trauma.But I wonder how Christians who overcame it returned back to faith?

Seminary student here, this is something I felt moved to talk about because I know, eschatology can cause a lot of trauma- one of my best friends had to deal with apocalypticist parents, and it was as destructive as you would expect.

Prior to 1830, no recognized church preached the rapture.

The Gospels themselves do not directly connect the return of Christ and the following judgement, with references to being brought up in the clouds imagery evoked by Thessalonians. Paul is a separate voice from Jesus, and is subject to the time-sensitive context of his correspondence, and pseudepigraphic writings (an interesting rabbit hole on the ancient world and philosophical tutelage.)

The rapture is not accepted by the majority of global Christianity- it is not canonized by the Catholic Church, nor recognized by Orthodoxy, Anglicanism, etc. It is primarily an American idea aligned with evangelical doctrine. At the bottom of this post I'll include a bit about premillennialism an post postmillennialism to give you a bit of a cheat sheet on church history, they're linked to the rapture but, I'll go ahead and get to the point.

The "rapture" was an oral doctrine born in the 1800s and championed by American evangelical Dwight L. Moody; it was given credibility by him and by the fact that the Scofield Reference Bible featured one reference to it, when it was published in 1909. Scofield was a confederate veteran and who was a dispensationalist, a weird numerologic system of dividing human history into seven pre-determined ages and floating a lot of ideas about zionism which I'll leave at the door. The only place the Scofield Reference Bible mentions the rapture is in a passage heading, the little descriptive sentence at the start of a section to explain what it is; where the word of Christ is preceded by the label "Jesus predicts the rapture." Scofield also inserted his own commentaries through scriptures in his Reference Bible, on his theology, and his own interpretations in the style of well, a seminary student. And trust me, that is not going to hold up, I speak from experience.

Scofield got the idea of the rapture from Moody. Moody got the idea of the rapture from a British evangelical preacher named John Nelson Darby, who also invented dispensationalism. His source for rapture theology is greatly debated and can't be determined. Sometimes it's said to be from a 15-year-old girl who had visions that Darby himself reported as "demonic" or in general error theologically, but some of his writings on it predate that by a few years, so it seems, Darby is his own source. He either says he got it from Special Revelation (IE, a secret directly given to him ala, which is what Joseph Smith said when he founded Mormonism, if you are unfamiliar with the term) or, that while recovering from an injury, he had time to come to the conclusion of the rapture in his own interpretation of scripture.

I would recommend reading up on Premillennialism/ Postmillennialism because that is the debate that the concept of the rapture is really rooted in. Up until WWI-ish, it was a debate in the 18th to 20th century on if we were before, in, or after the 1000-year reign of Christ spoken of in Revelations; boiling down to this:

Premillenialist = the world will keep getting worse until Christ comes back

Postmillenialist = the world will keep getting better until Christ comes back

Amillenialism = maybe there isn't a thousand-year reign of the righteous alongside Jesus?

...And that was basically it. two world wars, the great depression, and some other things made postmillenialism fade away because we came to terms with the fact life was, still rough.

and some further reading. :)

https://jmichaelrios.wordpress.com/2016/06/30 /scofields-abominable-study-bible/

https://www.knowingjesusministries.co/articles/is -the-rapture-taught-in-the-bible/

Hello as a biological male born into an Islamic household there has always been some kind of expectation over me to lead. Lead a family, lead prayers and all of that, and I absolutely hate it.

I absolutely hate the patriarchal standards Islam sets over men, I don't even think I'll consider getting married because I don't want to bear the burden of these responsibilities.

I keep telling her not to make these kinds of curses. Shes very nationalistic. Thinks that too many people are marrying out and she says she curses them and says she hopes things dont work out for them.

What can I say from religious texts to let her know this is not valid? And that it's also dangerous as it can come back on her and her children?

This is a half rant/half opinion post. I believe that many Muslims nowadays especially mainstream Muslims pray for the sake of heaven or just for the sake of praying which seems illogical to me (please correct me if I'm wrong) the main point of praying is that you pray to Allah not from fear of hell or greed of heaven but purely because you admire and love him and his eternal holiness.

In a similar vein I also believe the main point of following the Quran and praying is to become a good person. Almost every surah and ayat is there to guide you to become a good person yet I've seen atheists and other non muslims that are more loving and peaceful than even the most religious muslims

This wasn’t something I took lightly. I waited as long as I could and only took that step because I was getting to know someone for the sake of marriage. Unfortunately, he deceived me and took advantage of my trust. I do have accountability because I did make that choice to give myself to him.

However, realising my mistake, I’ve made sincere tawbah (repentance) to Allah, and I’m committed — wholeheartedly — to never going down that path again unless it’s within the bounds of marriage, insha'Allah.

I’m sharing this because I’d like to hear some honest and respectful perspectives from men: Would you consider marrying a woman in my position?

Note: Before anyone misunderstands, I’m not saying I plan to pretend to be a virgin. If a man has saved himself and wants the same in a partner, I completely respect that and would walk away without exposing myself— no hard feelings. That’s a fair and understandable choice.

My question is more directed toward men who also have had a past. Before I made this mistake, I personally never judged whether my future husband had a history or not — that was between him and Allah. I only cared that he was clean from any STDS.

I’m trying to move forward with sincerity, but I’d be grateful for thoughtful responses.

Thank you.

Me and my wife love watching caseoh play horrors at night but we’re running low on the ones I know are good and just put on random ones, however most of these indie horror games are unfortunately not our tastes we like actual scary games he has played like Amenti or usually Russian ones are good, any recommendations are appreciated, scarier the better :) (ones I can think of that might be recommended that we’ve already watched are mortuary assistant, poppy playtime, Scrutinized, Still Wakes The Deep, At dead of night)