Christianity has always been a religion that assumes a coming Apotheosis. Not always through Armageddon (Gnostics did not believe in that) but a return of God to Earth to bestow judgement and even the scales on Earth.

The Rapture is just American-Christian fanfiction around that event, kinda like Purgatory for Catholics.

Edit: Also, this idea that the Bible was ‘mistranslated’ to be homophobic is some Unitarian Universalist or liberal Catholic headcanon rewriting.

‘Christianity’ may not have always been homophobic (not alot of evidence one way or the other way), but when the ‘Bible’ was canonized, there was an extremely likely homophobic interpretation of the Old Testament, as one of the historical insults of pagans by Christians of that period was that they slept with men and women indiscriminately.

That said, indiscriminate promiscuity was always an insult among the upper class of Roman society. You were meant to keep your indiscretions private, maintain ‘Roman virtue’. So it’s unclear if it is directly aimed at homosexuality or just sexuality in general, but regardless, the homophobia in the Bible is not a case of ‘mistranslation’. That is an extremely modern interpretation.

Yet these same Christians don’t believe anyone since Paul can have revelations from God. Doctrine stopped after Paul except for Baptists apparently. The Catholics don’t count, of course. And low-born folks like us certainly can’t have divine revelations. Or opinions contrary to theirs.