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Actually, much less than that. The first edition of the Scofield Bible was published in 1909.
After that date, as far as I know, it was heavily backed financially and promoted throughout the US by some very unscrupulous people with their own agenda.
THAT is why it was so widely adopted. Same pattern as the Rockefeller takeover of history and academia.
Sadly, the impact is widely felt today, as you rightly point out.
I noticed there are a few downvotes: some of us hang on to our beliefs regardless of facts that may contradict them.
The rapture idea directly undermines the motivation of believers to change this world and take responsibility for it as God's representatives, as members of the Body of Christ.
One thing that blows it out of the water though, is a much clearer grasp of what resurrection actually is: a spiritual phenomena of being restored back to spiritual life expressed symbolically in scripture. (for example, in the book of acts it describes that after the resurrection of Jesus, many saints of the old testament 'resurrected' and "walked among the people of Jerusalem...."
So where are they? Where did they go? as far as I understand it, because of the action of the Holy Spirit, the spiritual sense of many were opened in a temporary basis and they say how the saints in the spiritual dimension were being resurrection with Jesus to a higher spiritual level that Christ opened via the cross.
I agree. I didn't go into too much detail because I just wanted to keep it simple for the 90% of people that are completely unfamiliar with this fact.
But yeah, there's a lot of weird stuff attached to the shift in biblical eschatology.
It definitely feels like a push from a person or group that had an agenda to change the way Christians think and interact with the world.
Yah, sometimes simpler is much better. You raised the topic and introduced it well, imo.
Thank you!
I've always thought of it similar to the Santa Clause effect; If I'm good the month before Christmas, I will get gifts. Instead the opposite, since Jesus is going to rapture me soon, I don't have to do anything...