How do you feel about predictions that 'The Rapture' will occur in May of...

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AlanH

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...this year (2011)? According to 'Family Radio', the 'Judgment Day'(the Rapture) will begin May 21, 2011 and the Earth will be destroyed on October 21, 2011.

Of course this is all nonsense, but I would like to know, does it scare you that a very powerful group is saying the world will end this year? Do you feel that this is another 'Heaven's Gate' or Jonestown type cult?

The 'Family Radio' website says:

"Judgment Day, May 21, 2011, The Bible Guarantees it!"

It shows the year 2012 crossed out, as if to say there is no 2012.

The host of the radio show, 89 year-old Harold Camping, has said he "knows" he will be taken up into Heaven before the end of the world.

I wonder, does he intend to participate in some mass suicide?

No crazies please.
"Rolling apocalypses." Very funny..lol
 
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Sarnaath

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"does it scare you that a very powerful group is saying the world will end this year? "

-- no. Camping and Family Radio isn't a powerful group. As far as I can tell most Christians think he's crazy to try and predict the date of the Apocalypse. I don't see how the word 'powerful' applies to this group.

I also do not expect any Jonestown or Heaven' Gate type tragedy either. Camping doesn't appear to be a cult leader in the way Heaven's Gate was run (very secretive). And I don't see anything that might indicated a Jonestown situation. Camping has been wrong before and lived to predict another date. I think that's what will happen: he'll be wrong and predict another date. The only thing that is really different is the media attention.
 
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sara

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I hear these kinds of predictions everyday but I have to think about this scripture.
Matthew 24:21 He cut short the days on account of the chosen ones or no one would be alive.

Or something like that. Well, if the chosen ones were raptured out? what difference would it make how long it took?
 
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DreBob

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Harold Camping is a cult leader who has previously predicted the end of time, and been wrong every time he's done so. The Bible specifically says that no man shall know the date of Christ's return, so either Harold Camping is not a man, or Harold Camping is claiming that the Bible lies.

Either way, he's not at all representative of anything that mainstream Christianity represents. He's a fringe element, a cult leader, a wacko that hides behind the label "Christian" just the same way the Westboro Baptist cult does.
 
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MreSmartypants

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I wish I had a nickle for every time the Apocalypse has been predicted. I wouldn't be sitting here, I'd be out on my yacht. 8^)

I had a good friend in college who left school because he believed there wasn't much time. His church had predicted the Eschaton coming in 1984. He could even quote chapter and verse of the Bible in evidence. Nobody will know the day and hour, he said, but they knew the year. These were the Jehovah's Witnesses, BTW, and it turns out they predict the end every few years.

In fact almost every Christian intellectual (and no, that is not an oxymoron) since the time of Jesus believed he was living in the Final Days. It's just a very attractive thing to believe.

If I was a Christian (which I'm not) I would figure it didn't really matter. It might be thousands of more years, or it might be before I finish typing this sentence. I will live as if it might be any time, and if I reach my deathbed before it comes, well I won't feel bad. Virtue is its own reward, right? We'll all get there eventually.
 
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Ted

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I asked a similar question a couple of months ago:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;…

I've already requested that since Harold Camping and Family Radio won't need any of their money after May 20, 2011, I have already sent them my address so that on the afternoon of May 20, 2011 they can send all their money to me.

I even suggested they turn the money into a Cashier's Check.

If they don't it will prove exactly how sincere they are about this.

The people I really feel sorry for are those who believe this nonsense.
Source(s):
45+ years following a Jewish Carpenter & studying His Book!

I am the real Pastor Art, not the clone.
 
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PaulB

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I always have a bit of a laugh when I see the local billboard advertising that one. It just shows that there are people out there with too much time on their hands and enough money to put up stupid signs.

I can't help wondering if it's going to be a rolling Apocalypse, since it will be the 21st here on the New Zealand side of the Dateline for hours before the rest of the world catches up.

On the other hand, if it does happen it's really going to annoy those people betting on the December 2012 version.
 
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pinetree

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So far **ALL** date setters have been solidly wrong. So its a bad idea in general to set dates. I plan on openly mocking those who believe that on May 21, 2011 is the day of the rapture on my facebook page.
 
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