Let's get one thing straight. Contrary to much of the media hype surrounding May 21, 2011, Christian broadcaster Harold Camping and his followers aren't saying the world will come to an end on that date. They're saying it's Judgment Day — the date Christ will return and "rapture" true believers into heaven.
The world won't come to an end, they say, till October 21 (my birthday!), though we're not meant to take any comfort in that fact.
Camping explains:
On May 21, 2011 two events will occur. These events could not be more opposite in nature, the one more wonderful than can be imagined; the other more horrific than can be imagined.
A great earthquake will occur the Bible describes it as "such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great." This earthquake will be so powerful it will throw open all graves. The remains of the all the believers who have ever lived will be instantly transformed into glorified spiritual bodies to be forever with God.
On the other hand the bodies of all unsaved people will be thrown out upon the ground to be shamed.
The inhabitants who survive this terrible earthquake will exist in a world of horror and chaos beyond description. Each day people will die until October 21, 2011 when God will completely destroy this earth and its surviving inhabitants.
For the record, a decade ago Camping predicted exactly the same thing was going to happen in September 1994.
For the record, it didn't.
Update:
• May 21: Apocalypse Not
Read more about it:
• Video: The End Is Come, May 21
• 2011: Doomsday Approaches
• 2011: Enraptured by the Second Coming
• 2011: Is the End Nigh? We'll Know Soon Enough
• 1994: Broadcaster Says End of World Is Near
• 1994: Camping Misses End of World
• Failed End-of-the-World Predictions
• 10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
• The Sky Is Always Falling
Comments
I am very sad for those who have been following this lie that the rapture will occur on May 21st. Even if they attempt to explain away “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father” (Mark 13:32), they cannot explain away that most every Christian, theologian, scholar, and prophet from the first Century until the Nineteenth Century all believed that the church would go through the Great Tribulation and not escape through some secret rapture that would leave the world paralyzed. I pray that they will take a moment and read my book, “Final Warning” because the hour of is His judgment has come.
You and other idiots like you, make me embarrassed that I’m of the same species. First of all, there is no god up in heaven on a throne manipulating puppet strings attached to a “flock”. There is however, a “higher power”. It’s called NATURE in case you haven’t heard or were aware of. This includes earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and other catastrophic events. They all have scientific explanations or PROOF of which religious apologists and believers have exactly NONE! You can delude yourself and maybe convince other weak minded individuals of this nonsense however, slowly but surely these superstitions will go the way of Zeus and the other mythical gods of the ancients. It can’t come soon enough!
Right On!!!
Finally, someone has it right!
You Peter Klim are an idiot.
Hey, Rev. Dan,
I got two words for you: STFU.
-Sincerely,
-the rest of sane society
p.s. and you can shove your book where the “Son” doesn’t shine!
Um, thats not 2 words.
Know a believer in the may 21st prophecy? Thinking about it yourself? Check this out: http://apologeticsblogger.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/thinking-about-may-21st-read-this/
-The Apologetics Blogger
Check this –> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVL84rRnrhs&feature=share
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. lex parsimoniae (translating to the law of parsimony, law of economy or law of succinctness).
True believers are people (mostly children who lack proof otherwise) who believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa Clause, The Tooth Fairy, God, and Leprechauns! Clearly, there is no evidence any of those beings exist, and with sufficient knowledge, they come to know they do not.
Religion has provided almost all the ills of the world. Hate, violence, crime, murders-in-the-name-of-God, poverty, superstition, horrific abuse of children, and lifetimes of fear. Religion has also provided some spectacular cultural enjoyments, such as music and art. But for me, the bad far outweighs the good.
People who believe this nonsense clearly deceive themselves and others, and support the evil that men do in the name of religion. We can all get together on May 22 and October 22 to review the silly nonsense this particular segment of religion has brought to the media and published.
Amen!! LOL!
Er, excuse me? Religion had been the cause of all the bad stuff in the world? What about atheistic communism and socialism who’s promoters have murdered more people in the name of humanism that religion ever has. Stalin alone murdered 20 million of his own people. Add another 2 million for Pol Pot in Cambodia. Shall I go on? It is time peopel stopped hiding behind the “religion is the root of all evil” propaganda.
The fact is that evil in the world comes from the sinful nature of man – religious or not (although atheism is a religion of it’s own because it deals with a belief system about God). It is that sinful nature that causes wickedness, not religion. The true God, Jesus Christ, offered a different way of living. He also said “straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to eternal life and few there be that find it.” Because people like oyu reject that, does not mean that it is not true. Perhaps if mroe people actually believed and lived what Jesus taught there would not be as much wickedness, pain and death in the world – a thing I assume you want.
…you do realize that there isn’t any evidence…none…that a man named Jesus even existed…don’t you? No archaelogical evidence, no written record, nothing…no-thing! Supposed eye-witnesses also do not exist, as their so-called testimony wilts under even the mildest scrutiny. So to ask that we believe in the teachings and sayings of a person who didn’t exist in the first place is fraudulent at best, and downright evil at worst. I reject your religions, I reject your Iron Age fairy tales, I reject your 15th Century dogma. I reject YOU as a member of the same species as me.
The only reason that Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot killed more people, numerically, is that they had more modern weapons of mass destruction than did earlier people. Percentage wise the earlier people killed more people because there were fewer people on the earth. If the earlier Christians had the same weapons that the earlier people did, they would have killed many more times the people.
I would like to know where he got the date of May 21 from the Bible. Or what ‘facts’ he used to calculate that date. One thing about the prophet you omitted – if they are false they are to be stoned…..
You can find his explanation as to where he came up with this particular date at http://www.familyradio.com
Well there goes the Mayan thing………and I was looking forward to it.
No one; repeat no one, knows except God. No exceptions; repeat no exceptions Harold.
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Which God? We only believe in the god we were brought up to believe in….sooo who’s god is the Real god!? Bunch of superstition to help people cope with the fact that life is not forever…..we go back to the earth, just like every other form of life on his planet….
It will all come to an end when I say so, and not a minute before. And no one else has the faintest clue about the actual date. However, I will say this– if you have any serious vacation plans beyond July 15, you might as well cancel them, and save yourself the (somewhat abbreviated) disappointment.
Me
Well,if TEOTWAKI arrives tomorrow@12am,at 11:55,I’m gonna pour myself a snifter of brandy(Prefferably Christian Brothers(tm));fire up a good Dominican or Honduran Cigar;put Mad Men on my Blue Ray Player;
play Bobby Darrin’s”Beyond the Sea”on the stereo
and wait for Jesus H.Christ;our Lord&Saviour(tm)
to appear at 12am!!
If he hasn’t arrived by 12:01am,well I’ll just keep watching Mad Men and maybe play Kyu Sakamoto’s”Sukiyaki”instead!!
“Behold,I will corrupt thy seed and smear dung upon thy faces.”-malachi 13:16.
Donald Trump/Alec Baldwin for President 2012!!!
You said, “I’m gonna … fire up a good Dominican or Honduran Cigar …”
You might as well go the distance and smoke a Cuban. With everything else that’s gonna be going on, a fine for contraband cigars is the least of your worries.
Evidently the good Reverend Blair is “praying” that all of this will increase his book sales. If the end of the world is REALLY at hand, why bother trying to pitch a book? Besides, by the time the USPS gets around to delivering it, it will all be over anyway. Let’s see – May 21, 2011, Dec 21, 2012 on the Mayan calendar. So many nuts and so few squirrels, so many prophesies and so little time to scare everyone. An aside to Stevehigh: More people have BEEN killed in the name of religion – (mine is better than yours) – than for any other reason – EVER! That’s an easily proven and often written about fact. Cite YOUR sources.
As a born-again Christian who does believe that some of this will happen eventually (but not yet), this entire scenario just grieves me. Harold Camping has become unbelievably arrogant, gotten way off the track, and he’s taking all-too-gullible people right along with him — as usual in this kind of situation (I hear some even sold their property). Plus, other folks now have a brand-new reason to laugh at Christians and perhaps Christ himself. I sure have been wishing his radio show would just shut down!
Do you think that on May 22 he’s made backup plans to catch a fast plane out of the country?
The words of Christ in Matthew 24 are the truth I believe in, not the rantings of a false messiah. I grieve for and pray for the people who have been so deluded and deceived by this false prophet that they have become blind to their own Bibles. And thus comes the one thing about May 21st that truly scares me: that these people could be setting themselves up for another Jonestown scenario. If Camping tells them that they must tear their souls from their bodies, or any other insane, violent babble that he might have to offer, they’ll do it.
I think where you went wrong was in your first sentence: “The words of Christ in Matthew blah blah blah”…see, that’s where Camping went wrong, too. So, you’re both in the same boat, sort of “up sh*t creek”, if you will. So who gets to steer, and who gets to row? Good luck, we’re all counting on you.
-sTv0
The really, truly frightening thing here is the fact that he’s still getting traction on this, despite the fact that he was just as sure the last time he predicted this. Which didn’t happen, btw.