Camping Sets Another Date for Jesus' Return

[Marcia]

Camping's cult has made the news. The article shows several photos of his followers with signs (some on cars) citing May 21, 2011 as the end of the world.

“2011 Warning in Pictures”. That was the title of the email that arrived in Kevin Bloom’s in-box last night. Yesterday, our writer put together a piece about millenarianism that focused on media evangelist Harold Camping and his 2011 doomsday predictions. Camping, wrote Bloom, had been wrong about the Second Coming once before (September 6, 1994), but fifteen years later his followers were betting that next time (May 21, 2011) he’d be right.

http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-01-06-doomsday-cultists-warn-the-daily-maverick

 

[annsni]

That is just beyond sad. I can't believe that there are those who fall for this stuff but it's clear there are. What gets me is how smart some of these people are - at least the family that I know personally. I mean this one family is highly educated and a wonderful family but just sorely deceived.

 

[Marcia]

That is just beyond sad. I can't believe that there are those who fall for this stuff but it's clear there are. What gets me is how smart some of these people are - at least the family that I know personally. I mean this one family is highly educated and a wonderful family but just sorely deceived.

Yes, it's sad and hard to accept when believers fall for such teachings.

When I speak on the New Age, sometimes a Christian will say they can't imagine how anyone could believe in reincarnation or that there is no evil. I always point out that spiritual deception has nothing to do with intellect. Just look at all the smart people caught up in false beliefs. It happens to Christians, too, who should know better. Much of the NT was written to warn about false teachers, who were infiltrating the early church as soon as they could.

I think one reason Christians fall for these things is likely based in pride in some way. Pride seems to lead to a lot of bad stuff.

 

[Heavenly Pilgrim]

Marcia: Just look at all the smart people caught up in false beliefs. It happens to Christians, too, who should know better

HP: Truer words could not have been spoken. Case in point, original sin.:thumbsup:

 

[Marcia]

HP: Truer words could not have been spoken. Case in point, original sin.:thumbsup:

Don't go off topic. I started this thread and if you try to take it in that direction (which seems to be your main focus), I will immediately ask a mod to delete your post and/or warn you.

 

[Heavenly Pilgrim]

Peace Marcia:saint:

 

[KenH]

Here is how the date was arrived at:

www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/judgment/judgment.html


Personally, I will be glad whenever the Lord Jesus Christ returns and brings about the new heavens and earth...regardless of the date.

 

[Rubato 1]

Here is how the date was arrived at:

www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/judgment/judgment.html


Personally, I will be glad whenever the Lord Jesus Christ returns and brings about the new heavens and earth...regardless of the date.

Good point. I would just as soon have Camping right about the date as wrong! The sooner the better, IMO.:thumbs:

 

[Marcia]

Good point. I would just as soon have Camping right about the date as wrong! The sooner the better, IMO.:thumbs:

Except now we know it probably won't be 2011 since Camping has predicted it, and no man can know that. And it probably won't be 2012 since there are (pagan) predictions for that year as an end time (although some see it as an evolutionary change, not an end, and also people are misinterpreting what the Mayans said, which is just that 2012 marks the end of a long cycle of time in their measurements).

 

[Rubato 1]

Except now we know it probably won't be 2011 since Camping has predicted it, and no man can know that. And it probably won't be 2012 since there are (pagan) predictions for that year as an end time (although some see it as an evolutionary change, not an end, and also people are misinterpreting what the Mayans said, which is just that 2012 marks the end of a long cycle of time in their measurements).

Well, with the number of prognosticators out there, one of them will eventually be right - not because they 'knew', but because they got lucky.

 

[Marcia]

Well, with the number of prognosticators out there, one of them will eventually be right - not because they 'knew', but because they got lucky.

I see what you're saying but since Jesus described his return as like "a thief in the night" and painted it as coming when no one expects Him, I tend to think it will be a time when no one has predicted or expected it.

 

[Rubato 1]

...I tend to think it will be a time when no one has predicted or expected it.

I don't know if any of those times exsist anymore! :tonofbricks:

 

[eightball]

That is just beyond sad. I can't believe that there are those who fall for this stuff but it's clear there are. What gets me is how smart some of these people are - at least the family that I know personally. I mean this one family is highly educated and a wonderful family but just sorely deceived.

A little extract from Romans Chapter 1..... and Matthew Chapter 24.... Basically the bible puts Camping on the skewer of false teaching.

Romans 1:21-22 (Author - Apostle Paul)
21. "For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks; but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened."
22. "Professing to be wise, they became fools.......

Matthew 24:36(Jesus speaking)
"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone." (Jesus explaining the end times)