Seeker, for me, looking for the rapture, and even if that didn't exist, for the second coming of Christ is what gives me hope for living today. This hope, that things will eventually become fair, and get straightened out by the Almighty himself, helps me to put up with the chaos and confusion and unfairness and even evil that exists in our world today.

I can't say we will have earthly bodies. We will have "new" bodies as you stated. If I combine what little I know of physics, and what experience I have with meditation and vision quests... I am not concerned with exactly what our new bodies will be. I do believe that our energy is not destroyed (neither for those who go separate places eternally.) Energy remains energy, but the form can change. Whatever form we become, I believe there is Scripture to show that we remain recognizable as who we were in this earthly form.

I'm sorry the thread discussed the rapture, but isn't that in the subject line? You know you may change the course of the thread at any time, being the originator. TC!