Posted on 05/07/2011 9:27:55 PM PDT by tlb
May 21, "starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake,". The true Christian believers will be "raptured": They'll fly upward to heaven.
"and on top of all that, there's no more salvation at that point. 153 days later that the entire universe and planet Earth will be destroyed."
"I no longer think about 401(k)s and retirement," he says. "I'm just a lot less stressed, and in a way I'm more carefree."
Brown is married with several young children, and none of them shares his beliefs. It's caused a rift with his wife — but he says that, too, was predicted in the Bible.
But it appears that many became believers in 2009 after turning on Family Radio, a Christian network. Camping's predictions have inspired other groups to rally behind the May 21 date. People have quit their jobs and left their families to get the message out.
"Knowing the date of the end of the world changes all your future plans," says Adrienne Martinez.
She thought she'd go to medical school, until she began tuning in to Family Radio. She and her husband decided they wanted to spend their remaining time with their infant daughter.
"Why are we going to work for more money? "
"We budgeted everything so that, on May 21, we won't have anything left," Adrienne adds.
I've asked a dozen of Camping's followers the same question. Everyone said even entertaining the possibility that May 21 would come and go without event is an offense to God. They all hope they'll be raptured.
"If I'm here on May 22, and I wake up, I'm going to be in hell," says Brown
On the other hand, he will presumably have lots of company.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
The fear or God is the beginning of all understanding!
Can the blind see?
Belief in God seems childish and moronic to the unbelieving
world
Yes.
Thankfully, God is merciful.
And, at least he’s not lukewarm.
I don’t mind extending grace and mercy because I need so much grace and mercy from God.
However, what dreadful consequences for his stubbornness and errors.
Stubbornness is as . . . which may be a bigger problem between him and God than his eschatological errors . . . that and perhaps an even more hazardous error . . . walking close to, if not over the line of ascribing some of Holy Spirit’s working to the enemy.
Not even He knew when He told of this.
"It will come like a thief in the night..."
Camping is holding up Christians to such ridicule with these predictions.
Amen to that!
Comeon! I’m working on my schedule and have a ton of stuff to do!
So are we talkin AM or PM?
If it’s PM, then I will set my coffeemaker the night before...
Seeing Mary on a Watermelon.
Sounds very satisfying... In a pure deviant sort of way!!
You will get your answer in due time. He will answer you and then you will answer Him.
That’s so sad. I will pray that you see the light Of Jesus and for your kids to also.
Just the idea of your taking the time to post only to create frustration speaks volumes of your state of mind. You may intend sarcasm, but I read your post as personal disappointment in not being able to find God on your own terms.
Insert pic: RoseAnn Roseannadana
It's always something. There's the rubber meeting the road. Premise: A "Bible only" church gets a lot right but is "off" on a few things. Next move should be to look elsewhere for less wrong.
Then one can find that a "small wrong thing" in the new church was a big right thing in the previous church. I cite the example of water baptism.
Some "Bible only" faith traditions claim it is essential to salvation. Others teach that while baptism should be done, that its reception is not essential to salvation.
I have tried, sporadically, over the years on this board, for someone who defends sola scriptura to rationalize this. I have never seen it done.
Women and minorities to suffer most.
The RCC has MORE inconsistencies . . . contradictions . . . factions . . . cliques . . . political blocks . . . doctrinal groups . . . diversities . . .
I’ve been shocked at the degree of such differences.
Even the primary documents are incredibly convoluted and diverse in perspectives.
And what RC’s have told us hereon is THE TRUEST TRULY TRUE RCC TRUTH
has often been contradicted by other RC’s hereon.
The maze of RCC dogma
as presented
and
as lived out on FR has been one of my greater shocks that RC’s on FR have repeatedly shoved in my face.
I’d have never guessed that was the reality before FR. I’d had hints of such from some of my RC friends before. Maybe I didn’t dig deeply enough in those conversations. I just never had a very significant inkling that the realities within the organization were THAT diverse. The first 50 years of my life, I just assumed it was greatly more homogeneous than it obviously is.
What’s also mystifying to many Proddys is that RC’s on FR seem to virtually all be quite blind to that or in denial of that. Mad Dawg is often an exception but even he seems to overmuch, imho, fairly glibly slide over that rather startlingly significant fact.
It can’t end May 21. There are five months of baseball left to go.
Note to ALL: Behold the classic red herring. The conclusion to be drawn is that the question posed cannot be answered; so attention gets diverted to something else.
It happens a lot.
“The Great Disappointment” happened in New England in Oct.1844. Thousands of people prepared for Jesus to come and take them to Heaven, but of course it didn’t happen. They were devastated and many fell away because of it but many were also financially ruined because they sold or gave everything they had.
Has anyone said they now the date of the rapture, but they are not going to tell anyone? LOL
No, because you wouldn’t know His voice if He was standing right in front of you.
Just what we need...NPR reporting on religious matters and some here will consider the story factual...shame really.
WRONG.
I thought your points were self evident and not in need of further commentary.
Of course Proddys have a significant amount of diversity.
It’s the nature of large groups of people, actually.
I’d just ASSUMED somehow that the heavy degree of INSTITUTIONALIZATION in the RCC had significantly overcome that tendency, that human factor . . . until RC’S on FR made abundantly clear that was NOT the case—and that the RCC is as diverse as any large group.
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