Do you believe in Rapture? Why?

I agree with visavis on this. However, it is strange that lots of prophecies seem to put the end of the world about now (e.g. I've heard that in Buddhism a sign of the end of the world is men walking on the moon). Also it's obvious that things can't go on roughly as they are for very long. Either technology will keep advancing until it causes huge changes (e.g. nanotechnology making people nearly immortal and making it possible to make pretty well anything from rubbish, cheap space travel, robot servants, have our brains wirelessly connected to the internet etc.) or there will be a huge disaster (possibly caused by technology - we've all seen at least one Terminator movie) that will stop technological advancement. Then there's a strong possibility that there will one or more moderate disasters (I think a huge war between the West and the Islamic world is inevitable) which will cause huge changes but won't stop technological advancement so we'll have changes caused by that as well. Then you can get into all sort of complicated discussions about what technological advances, wars (with Islam or somebody else), natural disasters or man made disasters (e.g. nuclear accidents) are prophesied in the Bible or elsewhere. Such claims might be correct. I think the problem with trying to fit prophecies round recent or possible future events is that you're not likely to notice allusions to things you don't know about because they're in the distant future or we just don't know about it (for example, we could make contact with intelligent aliens later today, we know nothing about intelligent aliens so we're unlikely to pick up allusions to them in prophecies).

Nope your speculation is wrong and no bases from the word of God. If I'm not wrong like what movie said it is from Mayan account.... Only God knows when that happen.. see you around

It's interesting however that what sounds like thermal nuclear warfare was described more than 2000 years ago.. "the elements will melt with a fervent heat" - 2 Peter 3:10 and also revelation 6:12-17, described as is over hiroshima and nagasaki and then later at the 'end'/collapse.. and Revelation 13:13, also 1945 (pinpointing an office but not an individual)

There are verses in several books used as evidence that the rapture will happen: Matthew 24:38-41, Luke 17:27-30 (the problem here is that the analogies used suggest it is the bad people who will be taken), Acts 8:39 (I think this is a stretch as seems to have been something that happened to Philip in New Testament times rather than something that will happen to everybody still alive in the future), Luke, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 (this seems to the be main basis for the belief). I think some other verses are also sometimes used.

My friend I never seen any word rapture mentioned in the bible, that's why rapture is a doctrine of Christian like doctrine of trinity (both word never seen in the bible but we are believing) because that is the teaching we heard. see you around

But in the days of Noah, the evil people got swept away by water and the righteous were saved to remain on the earth.

My friend I just curious would you please give me the exact chapter and verse in Revelation the word rapture there. Only mentioned there is cry and gnash of teeth. Concerning rapture theory some account mentioned in Matthew 24 and 25.... If you give to me an exact word rapture in the bible I will convince to your response... see you around

I think "the rapture" and the "final judgement" are somewhat different things. The rapture is those believers who are living at the time being taken up to heaven. The final judgement is where all people are judged and sent to heaven or hell. People who believe in it (I don't - I'll give my reasons later in this thread if nobody basically says something similar) think that the rapture will take place before the final judgement.