Is that because Christians can’t take public transportation?
Christians CAN take public transportation. However, it would be extremely difficult for most industrialized people to rely SOLELY on public transportation – especially if they have families to support.
If you own a vehicle, you know what I’m talking about.
Well, of course, Christians who are members of the religious right can’t take public transportation. This is because public transportation is considered “environmentally friendly,” and every good conservative Christian knows that with the Apocalypse right around the corner there’s no reason to preserve the environment, therefore environmentalists are actually socialists out to do Satan’s bidding by preventing all those good conservative Christians out there from getting their God-given petroleum and old-growth forest wood. Just ask former Secretary of the Interior James Watt.
I’m so sick of the tyranny of the theology behind the “Left Behind” books.
Of all the bits of doctrine that are undecided in the Christian church, this is about the top, but you wouldn’t know it to hear some people. They act like there’s an outline with maps and a timeline in the back of Revelations. There’s not.
I’m a bike riding Christian. I already fell off the darn thing once this year. Maybe if I was going straight up…
No, really, I can’t quite see a God who loves us all pulling a stunt like that.
I guess I gotta read those “Left Behinds”. It seems my Church missed a few things. At least, I sure never heard about 'em!
Maybe no-one will be driving cars at the time of the rapture. Sound unlikely? This is GOD we’re talking about.
Or maybe no-on is a true-enough Xian to rapture! 
Sorry.
Anyway, isn’t this a lot of speculation? Does revelation specifically say people just vanish?
Well, half of the world will be in bed then, so its not that bad…
So I fail to see what the issue is. Is it immoral for Christians to be driving? What about being a doctor? What would happen if a doctor was delivering a baby during the rapture? What about someone programming a street light, and when they get ruptured, they drop their tools, it causes a short, and there are accidents? What about an air traffic controller? What about an electrician? You are implying that the death is rushed, or they will go to hell right away? Since when has that been a concern before this?
Airlines should contract only sinful pilots and that will solve the problems of God landing multiple aircrafts for us sinners…
great…then we will be getting all kinds of drunk or hungover or coked up pilots in the air. unless by sinful you mean non christian as opposed to full of vice.
I think the answer is pretty obvious… if you’re still here after the rapture, God doesn’t want you. The happy raptured (a good name for a band, no?) get to watch you, the sinner, die as their unoccupied car crashes into your evil, sinful home.
Just like on Lastday in Logan’s Run! Cool! Do they all explode, too?
Not true, since the book of Revelation specifically talks about 144,000 people coming out of Israel, receiving the Seal of God. These people were surrounded by a great multitude of other believers from around the world. (See Revelation chapter 7.)
Ouch! I swear, If I were ruptured I’d drop anything and everything in my hands and not a court in the land would convict me for any accidents that followed.
Since Darby invented the current form of rapture theology in the mid 1800’s?
No one who is driving one of those land leviathans is destined for the Rapture, anyway, so we’re safe on that account.
anyone, saved or not, can die at anytime. so, is it moral for anyone to drive?
This presumes that the so-called “pre-Tribulationist” doctrine is correct. Not all Christians are pre-Tribulationists. Indeed, the Orthodox Church is of the opinion that this whole “rapture” thing is some oddity invented in the 1800s with no precedent in ancient Church doctrine.
Thus, from my point of view, your question is simply absurd. It’s like asking me if it is moral to drive an automobile because I might run over Wile E. Coyote.
In regards to both theology and literature, let me assure you that you’ve missed nothing at all. Really. I couldn’t even finish the first one. Writing good fiction is very hard, and these guys don’t do any better than the rest of the hackers out there.
That’s fine, as long as they don’t fly the cars and drive the planes. Those kinds of reverse shenanigans are clearly against God’s will.
Clearly, we need a Defense of Vehicle Operation Act.
Maybe it’s worse than that. Maybe it’s bigger than just the post-Rapture safety question. How do we know anything is acceptable if it isn’t explicitly described in the Bible? Maybe we were all doomed the moment we got from point Aleph to point Bet by any means more complicated than walking or hoofed mammal.
Actually, I hadn’t even heard of Rapture theology until I was an adult and took to discussing religion. Most of my family’s never heard of it either, and we were all raised as Protestant Christians, albeit mostly English ones. From what I’ve been able to make out, including information from a friend who was very much a Fundamentalist Christian for many years, it’s based on a few verses, including some from Revelation and one from Matthew, I think. To me, it’s Biblically unsound and a peculiar development of American theology. It’s also one of the fairly few religious beliefs which produce a strong, knee-jerk negative reaction in me. I’ve tried to overcome this, which is why I have looked into its origins and the reality of what those who hold this belief believe, but I find a cruelty in it which is incompatible with my understanding of God.
At any rate, it’s not part of Episcopal theology either, and for that I am profoundly grateful.
CJ