Of course, we based our beliefs in Scripture alone. But because the rapture is ridiculed as something no one believed until the late 1800's, I offer evidence the idea existed long before that.
What did the early church believe about the rapture? Is there evidence that some believed Jesus would take His church out of the world before a time of tribulation?
Of course, we must base our beliefs on the words of Scripture, which is our only sure guide. But because the our belief is relentlessly mocked is something that cannot be true because no one in the early church believed it, I provide evidence to the contrary.