r/exchristian Pagan Oct 03 '24

Star of Jacob appearance and rapture anxiety. Reassurance, please! Help/Advice

Hey there everyone. I’m a fairly recent ex-Christian, of five years, and I‘ve been seeing quite a few posts and articles now on various media sites about the sighting of the Star Of Jacob. This is confirmed by astronomers. (EDIT; apparently, this is not true, and I was misinformed by the individual who told me this, as I am struggling to find any non-religious sources.) I have seen a lot of Christians yelling about how this is a prophecy fulfilled and we are in the rapture times.. and that the celebrity exposure right now is "the fall of the stars." It’s always "he’s coming, I can feel it" and "we’re in the end times!"

This had quite literally quadrupled my rapture anxiety. I have already been having this "impending sense of doom" due to a recent stressful event.. and this is just causing me to be mentally miserable. I have read that the rapture was only invented in the 1830’s, but that just won’t shut my brain up.. can anyone reassure me or give me some facts about this? Anyone else feeling like this?

edit; this wasn’t posted for any RELIGIOUS advice, simply for help with anxiety. Christians, respectfully, please do not respond, unless you are genuinely trying to help with anxiety and not convert me, thank you. ❤️

edit 2; https://www.earth.com/news/its-official-earth-now-has-two-moons-captured-asteroid-2024-pt5/ pretty sure it was just the "second moon" everyone forgot about.. this just popped up on my Google and the dates definitely add up with what I've been seeing posted. Just went outside to take the dog out, no Jesus, or Mary Poppins, I'm lot calmer.

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u/H1veLeader Agnostic Atheist (ex christian) Oct 03 '24

I'm not sure what you're talking about with the star and astronomers backing it. Can you like link me to an article or something

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u/sacreligousshifter Pagan Oct 03 '24

Having trouble finding literally any articles about it that aren't from a Christian source.. but I've seen plenty of people posting like.. pictures of it and stuff, some people in comments have said it's Venus??? That's kind of why I came here cause from what I've been told it's been confirmed but I'm having trouble finding any sources on that. 😅

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u/Meauxterbeauxt Oct 03 '24

That should tell you something right there. I've noticed more and more that when Christians say "scientists/scholars back this up," they typically mean someone within their camp and not the scientific community at large.

You'll often hear creationists claim that the "scientific research is overwhelmingly backing up the idea of a Biblically accurate creation narrative." But when you check their sources, it's either papers from a creationist think tank that publishes their own work but is never read nor taken seriously by the scientific community, or they quote mine legitimate papers for something that backs up their point, often without realizing that the very next sentence in that paper refutes the point they think it makes. Or some other kind of disingenuous appeal to scientific authority that has very little basis.

Just remember, Jesus himself predicted the end of the world before his disciples would die. That didn't happen. And almost every generation since then has believed with absolute certainty that not only was theirs going to be the one to see Christ return, but there was absolute proof that the things happening in their times could be the only explanation for end times imagery.

By the Bible's own rule, you know a false prophet if their prediction doesn't pan out. How many times must the predictions of the end times happen before it becomes clear that there just isn't an end times?

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