Originally Posted by swaggs21

Actually, there are over 24,000 manuscripts that are written with in 25 years of Jesus' death. Most are so close to each other that there are almost no foreseeable differences in the recollection of what happened.

Now since it seems you like reading, let's take the Illiad for example. The closest manuscript to the time it was originally written that exists is almost 500 years older than the original could have been. And there are 7 of them.

So if you believe that Homer wrote the Illiad and it did not change in the 500 and some odd years that there is no documentation of manuscript, then why would you not believe that someone could write a manuscript depicting the life of Jesus Christ within 25 years of the event happening. People were still alive then when those manuscripts were written, you could go and interview them.

The Rapture is the first warning shot to all non-believers. After that point they have 7 years to commit their lives to Christ. If they do not in that time frame after all of the plagues, famines, signs, etc. then they will be damned to Hell.

To say that Jesus Christ was just thought of in the New Testament is not knowing the Bible and what it says at all. There are numerous scriptures in the Old Testament that point to Him and His coming.