Blaine Coleman
2 min readFeb 14, 2025

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I hate to break it to you but there is nothing in the Bible about the "Rapture"; That's a concept/idea pushed by a tent revivalist in the 19th century- not the 2nd to 3rd century when the Bible as it stands was collected from hundreds of stories and "tall tales" the early Church decided fit their version of who Jesus was and what he may have done. There really isn't much taught in Christian churches that relates to Jesus other than his Command to Lover God and love your neighbor (which is every other person alive) as you love yourself.

It really is that simple: if you don't love your neighbor you don't love God. The priests of Jesus' time hated people being told that as did the leaders of the early Church. The priests had Jesus killed for speaking out against their lies but all the early Church- the one founded by Paul, not the first one founded by Peter in Jerusalem- could only destroy writings that didn't follow their narrative and kept them in power or exile or burn the "heretics" who dared question the teachings of the Church because they truly wanted to follow the Way Jesus taught people to follow. Just as the author of the cook series you mention: it was written for personal gain not to help anyone find a relationship with God and as a child, I was told about the Rapture when the "good" people would be taken into Heaven (another false concept) and everyone else be left to be tortured by demons in Hell- yet one more Greek concept taken up by Hellenized Jews and both came in as handy cudgels to keep their congregations in line.

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Blaine Coleman
Blaine Coleman

Written by Blaine Coleman

Rel. Studies, Creative Writing… Social liberal/fiscal conservative, occasional writer- profile pic- 6-yr-old coal minor 1910-flow with the Tao, all will be well

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