Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011

[meegbear]

Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012.

"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."

The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.

The Mayans and the recent Hollywood movie "2012" have put the apocalypse in the popular mind this year, but Camping has been at this business for a long time. And while Armageddon is pop science or big-screen entertainment to many, Camping has followers from the Bay Area to China.

Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd found: The world will end May 21, 2011.

This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about Judgment Day.

On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping's believers gathered inside Alameda's Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven.

But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations, as well as overseeing a media company that has grown significantly in size and reach.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/BA8V1AV589.DTL&feed=rss.news#ixzz0bVcb0dOp

[joeybee12]

1. Since the guy was wrong before, what did we learn from this?

Obviously, it's that God hates math.

[elocs]

2. I read that here yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7374432

[CreekDog]

3. Biblical *Scholar*?

maybe he just didn't study The Book of Matthew:

Matt 24:36

No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

[liberal N proud]

4. They can't change the rules in the middle of the game.

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:rofl:

[donco6]

5. How is it, that when secular people are wrong -

about timelines and predictions, they're kicked to the curb, but when the religious get dates wrong, they only get more popular?

I've never figured that out.

[Richard D]

6. My predictions . . .

No rapture on May 21, 2011 or any other date. We're stuck with the loonies.

The world will not end in 2012. We're stuck with the loonies.

Please send donations and buy my book.

[Turborama]

7. New Testament scholar Barbara Rossing debunks "the Rapture"

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x278196

[Renew Deal]

8. That's a year and a half earlier!

:bounce: