Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seventh Trumpet Rapture


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete.  Original research essay; Wikipedia is not a pulpit.  Sandstein  19:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Seventh Trumpet Rapture

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This article is about a non-notable interpretation of the Rapture, an event in Christian eschatology where adherents hold that God will take His church home to heaven prior to the end of the world. There are four or five mainline interpretations of when the rapture will occur - you can read about them at Rapture.

The "Seventh Trumpet Rapture" is not a mainline view or anything I had ever even heard of. From googling, I found http://home.nww.net/jamesu/ which most of the other pages seem to be crediting as the source of this doctrine. While it is not Wikipedia's place to be a judge of religious truth, it is our place to only publish notable theories with external reliable references.

Two of the google hits are to google books that use the term, but both of them make it clear that they are talking about a post-tribulation rapture and not talking about some different doctrine.

The article is written from a position of advocating this theology and is nothing resembling neutral. -- B (talk) 02:58, 25 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. I consider it immensely important that Google Scholar turns up nothing on the phrase, as a notable eschatological system would have scholarly articles written about it.  I don't consider any of the Google Books results at all useful, as they seem to be passing mentions of some different system.  (I wish I were back at school; I'd have better research materials there.)   Anturiaethwr  Talk  03:55, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete a search of the usual academic databases returns zero hits. Debate (talk) 04:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  20:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep but it needs cleaning up and probably pruning. The question of the point in Book of Revelation at which the rapture will take place is one of much debate within the Christian circles that debate eschatology.  The tag "essay" is appropriate, but it should not be a target for an AFD.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:30, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Umm ... if I think the rapture will occur on January 27, 2010, are we going to make a Wikipedia article about it? The point is that THIS PARTICULAR interpretation is some guy's theory and not at all notable.  It is not a referendum on the notability of the rapture itself, which is obviously notable.  --B (talk) 01:28, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Quite apart from how the article is written, there is no evidence of  notability for this theological variation. DGG (talk) 22:58, 26 May 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.