Posted on 05/23/2011 9:09:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harold Camping emerged from his Alameda, California home yesterday to face reporters for the first time since the Rapture that never happened. Wearing a light jacket and speaking over chirping birds, Camping told the San Francisco Chronicle he was "flabbergasted" that the world did not end on Saturday. "I'm looking for answers," he told the reporter. "But now I have nothing else to say. I'll be back to work Monday and will say more then." Camping followers are similarly perplexed. "I don't think I am going to stop listening to him," one man added, heaving a deep sigh before continuing: "I don't know, I gotta listen to him on Monday, see what he says on the radio.
"Somewhat bewildered" and "mystified is how Camping's wife described her husband, before he finally emerged from his home yesterday afternoon. The International Business Times managed to capture Camping on camera, refusing to surrender any more than a few words and promising. "Give me a day, no interviews at all today -- sorry," Camping said. "You know this is a big deal, big deal, and I've got to live with it and I've got to think it out. So no interview please."
Camping's relative silence since Saturday's anti-climactic continuation of life on Earth weighs heavy on his followers' confidence. Robert Fitzpatrick, the 60 year-old retired New York transit worker who spent $140,000 on billboards for the coming apocalypse, responded with bewilderment as well. "I can't tell you what I feel right now," he told a crowd of reporters and tourists in Times Square Saturday evening. "I haven't understood it correctly because I'm still here."
At least one person may benefit from Camping's failure.
As we pointed out last week, author and would-be Doomsday prophet Tim Lahaye is next in line
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Are you saying hell is not eternal? Please elaborate.
A happy child is a spoiled child?
I understand where you’re coming from, but I don’t look at happiness as a negative.
>>Are you saying hell is not eternal? Please elaborate.<<
Here is a really good elaboration:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2240648/posts
And this often results in people asking, “Yeah, but what about the parable of Lazarus and the rich man?”
See here: http://www.jeremyandchristine.com/articles/lazarus.html
>>I understand where you’re coming from, but I don’t look at happiness as a negative.<<
I don’t either, but I know, based on scripture, that happiness was not the goal of Christians then. Joy in Christ is. And sometimes people are happy, but it is very fleeting in a fallen world.
agreed!
No kidding.
“He must increase; I must decrease.”
John 3:10
(I guess losing your head is ONE way to ‘decrease’.)
That is the trouble with the USA today...
Thanks, good read much to ponder. It is good to look at Gods word and wrestle with it.
I never said a happy child is a spoiled child, and no I do not view happy as a negative, I think you miss the point. Blessings!
Absolutely not, I think the question is what is the source of our happiness and enjoyment. Again happiness is based upon circumstance it is a feeling. Joy is so much more than that and it lasts and it not based upon how one is feeling at the moment. For me Christ is my source, I delight in this life, in wonder of His wonderful creation and am filled with joy when I ponder His grace towards me. Much of the world however is made happy by possessions, circumstance and the affairs of life. They want the American Dream more than Christ.
And they are SURE that that dream is what Christ would want for them!
>>It is good to look at Gods word and wrestle with it.<<
Exactly!
Happiness is one of those things that people define differently. It's one of those age-old questions. I firmly believe that God wants us to be happy and enjoy our time on earth. However, I also believe that true happiness only comes through following Jesus and keeping the commandments. The world equates pleasure with happiness. Two completely different things.
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