Malachi4U:
- Do ALL Baptists believe in the ‘rapture & tribulation’?
You need to bone up on your eschatology. All CHRISTIANS believe in a tribulation and in a rapture. The debate is over timing, how the end-times will play out, etcetera. What you are polling about is the pre-millenial, pre-tribulational schema of rapture, involving an invisible return of Christ for His Church, followed by a certain number of years of intense tribulation, followed by a War of Armageddon and the visible return of Christ, follwed by a thousand-year reign of Christ on earth.
The view I just described is often incorporated into a theological system known as Dispensationalism. Much too difficult to go into here. Try this wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism
As constructed, your poll is actually unanswerable: you display too little familiarity with your subject and too much animus towards those who would differ with you.
- Do ALL Baptists believe the same things about the ‘rapture & tribulation’?
No. There are post-tribulationalist Baptists, a rather well-known one right here in St. Louis, Holmes Moore. There are a-millenial and post-millenial Baptists whose views on eschatology would resemble that of most Roman Catholics. I assume there are mid-tribbers who are Baptists, though I’ve not known of any. Many Baptists reject Dispensationalism, which teaches the pre-tribulational rapture almost universally.
- Do ALL Baptists believe the Word of God, the Bible, is the fianal authority? OK, which Bible then and which version and which translator, author, etc…?
The Bible is infallible and inerrant in it’s orignal autografa. It has been Divinely preserved in various manuscripts, but few Baptists believe in the inerrancy of transmission–most acknowledge that some interpolations and variants have occurred but feel that God has preserved all that is essential. Translations are helpful but only a tiny slice of the Protestant Evangelical world believe that any translation is inspired. About 10% of conservative Evangelicals, I would unscientifically estimate, believe that the Textus Receptus best represents the autografa, with about 10% of those believing that the KJV is the infallible translation of the Textus Receptus.
- What do ALL Baptists believe in? (I heard there were only 5 things they can ALL agree on)
‘Baptist’ is an umbrella term for a wide disparity of Christian associations, not all of which share a common heritage. In general however, Baptists would accept the doctrines found in the Apostle’s Creed, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed. They are part of the Reformed tradition. You might find this page helpful:
baptiststart.com/doctrine.htm#confessions
- Have you been in a Baptist church that admits the ‘rature & tribualtion’ is a HOAX? Where and what is it’s name?
Haven’t been in it, but Pastor Homes Moore certainly has preached this idea. Here’s their website:
oldgospel.com/
- The ‘rapture & tribulation’ violates Sacred Scripture, what verses can anyone use to support it?
I am neither a Baptist, nor a Dispensationalist, nor a pre-tribulationist. So I’ll leave this one to someone who is at least one of the above.
- What verses clearly prove the ‘rapture and tribulation’ wrong?
Space does not permit. In any case you clearly are unfamiliar with the various schools of eschatology–historicist, futurist, allegorical, etcetera. You don’t know much about Protestant theology or ecclesiology. You don’t project an air of being really interested. If you are, you obviously have a computer and could do a web search on the subject(s) for yourself.
- How did so many (not just Baptists either) get sucked into the ‘rapture and tribulation’ HOAX?
Loaded question. I don’t believe in the pre-tribulational rapture theory either, but as a Roman Catholic you presumably do believe in the ‘development of doctrine’. Why then must you assume that an eschatological system which has been articulated and ably defended (albeit wrongly, IMHO) by various learned men of God is necessarily a hoax?
- One final question, do Methodists believe in the ‘rap & trib’ hoax too? Some, all, the church teachings on it? (The very anti-Catholic Grandma was there and she’s a Methodist and believes in it too)
Pre-tribulationalism is not a denominational property. Various Evangelicals have embraced it, some by default (it is virtually the only well-articulated view extant on many Christian bookshelves) and others after serious study.
