When I was about 9, my family moved. In our new home, we went to a church that focused much more strongly on the "end times" than our old church did. I was taught that when Jesus Christ returned to judge all men (the Rapture), the Christians would be taken up "into the air" (like the Bible says) in their own physical bodies instead of having to die first. I thought that if I was inside a building or underground at the time, I could not go to Heaven, because my body would not go through the material overhead and fly up into the air with God. I used to pray, terrified, every night for God to double-check to make sure I was outside before He started the end of the world.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I believed that Jesus Christ was the son of the Christ family, i.e., Mary and Joseph Christ.— David Araújo
- I used to believe that every time I went to church, I got "points" to go to heaven. — Poxy
- I used to believe that Jesus lived in the tower of the churchAnon
- Iused to believe the statue of Jesus was really him and our church got mad at him and nailed him up there.— The Fidiot
- I used to think that the priest at church was JESUS.
He had a beard.... it made sense— Joe B - I used to think that church songs were pop music. Well, we did sing them in church every week...— Roxy