Never mind.
Posted on 05/23/2011 12:34:13 PM PDT by markomalley
The Christian radio host who predicted the world would end over the weekend said Monday he's ready to talk about why the apocalypse didn't arrive.
Harold Camping declined to immediately comment to The Associated Press but said he'll make a full statement in a broadcast through his Oakland-based Family Radio International.
"I will have more to say tonight," said Camping, an 89-year-old retired civil engineer who previously said there was no possibility the Rapture would not occur at 6 p.m. Saturday. "I will be putting out a message in our broadcast."
Camping had preached that some 200 million people would be saved, and that those left behind would die in a series of scourges visiting Earth until the globe is consumed by a fireball on Oct. 21.
His earlier apocalyptic prediction in 1994 also was a bust, but he said it didn't happen because of a mathematical error.
He told the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday he was "flabbergasted" his latest doomsday prophecy did not come true.
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For starters look up the word "arrogance" and ponder on its meaning. Then search the Bible for how God feels about false prophets. Treating the Bible like a salad bar and pulling scriptures out of context always ends badly.
In some ways, I have more respect for this guy than people like Beck who pretty much say that we are “in the last days” but aren’t man enough to name a date. At least Camping can be held accountable. Beck, who like Camping has no evidence that we are truly in the “last days,” can’t.
Never mind.
Using the Bible as a Ouija board to predict the future depends on fools to believe it.
Never mind.
We can feel sorry for Mr. Campings many followers, yet we can be most concerned that somehow they not abandon all hope and faith in G-d, while they restore to themselves a healthy lack of faith in self-proclaimed prophets.
I’d rather he just shut up. Speaking got him in trouble.
True but a lot of people do it, ranging from Beck to Hal Lindsey who either state or nearly state that we are in the “last days.” By giving a precise date, Camping at least can be held accountable.
“I will find new ways of bilking my parishoners, and invite all of you to participate tonight...”
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>> “Any possibility of his asking forgiveness?” <<
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Any possibility of this multi-millionaire false prophet getting stoned to death?
Beck should get the Camping forecasting medal.
We're surrounded by idiots, traitors and the easily led.
Off to Proverbs!
Well, I think you are conflating 2 different things. It is one thing to say we are in the last days, quite another to set a date for Christ's return. The Bible tells us that no one knows the day or the hour of Christ's return. However you CAN see the "signs of the times" and recognize that the prophetic conditions for His return are beginning to come to pass.
In Matther 24, the disciples ask Jesus what would be the sign of His return. After going though a list of things, Jesus told them:
“Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors! "
So this admonition (repeated in three of the Gospels) indicates that we can identify by the events in the world that the return of Jesus is "soon". Does that mean a year? Five years? Twenty years? More? Hard to tell, because God doesn't view time like we do.
Randy Savage and my Seiko wristwatch. Died Saturday night.
:-)
BTW, this book was written in 1881; you wouldn't believe how accurate it is!
In the late nineteenth century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life’s mean material affairs—and toward the next life’s glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do.
When Father Arminjon’s conferences were later published in a book, many others were able to reap the same benefit—including fourteen-year-old Thérèse Martin, then on the cusp of entering the Carmelite convent in Lisieux. Reading it, she says, “plunged my soul into a happiness not of this earth.” Young Thérèse, filled with a sense of “what God reserves for those who love him, and seeing that the eternal rewards had no proportion to the light sacrifices of life,” copied out numerous passages and memorized them, “repeating unceasingly the words of love burning in my heart.”
Now the very book that so inspired the Little Flower is available for the first time in English.
Let the pages of The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life fill you with the same burning words of love, with the same ardent desire to know God above all created things, that St. Thérèse gained from them. Let them also enrich your understanding of certain teachings of the Faith that can often seem so mysterious, even frightening:
Jesus commands us to be ever-watchful for his return, and ever-mindful that we have no lasting city on earth. The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life is an invaluable aid to inculcating in your spirit that heavenly orientation, without which true human happiness cannot be found—in this world or the next.
Then there is the buffet style, picking out only those parts they like.
LOL
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