What Christian Leaders are Saying after Another Failed Doomsday Prediction

1 posted on 05/21/2011 7:35:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

I don’t know when Christ will return. Anyone who says he does know is a liar.

2 posted on 05/21/2011 7:41:54 PM PDT by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)

Bishop T.D. Jakes, pastor of the Potter's House and head of T.D. Jakes Ministries

"I'm here just as I expected."

T.D. Jakes, succinct as always.

3 posted on 05/21/2011 7:42:26 PM PDT by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)

Live every day as if God were arriving on the next plane. He wants up to be happy while we wait.

4 posted on 05/21/2011 7:42:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))

To: cripplecreek

So true. If we live our lives like tomorrow is our last the world would be a much better place. IMHO

5 posted on 05/21/2011 7:50:22 PM PDT by berdie (qill)

I think not knowing makes us better Christians.

6 posted on 05/21/2011 7:52:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))

“The Rapture occurred. God found no one worthy of taking.”
- Harold Camping

7 posted on 05/21/2011 7:56:24 PM PDT by PaleoBob

Hey folks, Harold Camping probably skipped town with the ministry portfolio.

8 posted on 05/21/2011 7:58:32 PM PDT by immadashell

I’ve met the flawed man.

That’s not one of his flaws.

He’s not accepted a single penney from his ministry.

He’s a total volunteer.

He retired from being a Civil Engineer, IIRC.

9 posted on 05/21/2011 8:03:36 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)

To: cripplecreek

I would tend to agree. It also gives, for Christians and non-Christians, a much better view of what a person is really like.

10 posted on 05/21/2011 8:06:03 PM PDT by arderkrag (Georgia is God's Country.----------In the same way Rush is balance, I am consensus.)

To: cripplecreek

He is here everyday.

11 posted on 05/21/2011 8:18:55 PM PDT by CTyank

To: cripplecreek

He IS here everyday.

12 posted on 05/21/2011 8:19:17 PM PDT by CTyank

I am currently reading this book. A much different story than Camping's

BTW, this book was written in 1881; you wouldn't believe how accurate it is!

Reading this book was one of the greatest graces of my life!"
— St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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:

The signs that will precede the world’s end
The coming of the Antichrist, and how to recognize him
The Judgment and where it may send us: heaven, hell, and purgatory
Biblical end-times prophecy: how to read it and not be deceived
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.

13 posted on 05/21/2011 8:27:18 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)

To: cripplecreek

Exactly. He may be coming back any minute, or (and even more likely) we could be going to be with HIM) at any moment. Live your life accordingly. And God bless you all. :)

14 posted on 05/21/2011 8:34:34 PM PDT by brytlea (If you don't know what APOD is you'd better find out!)

How are you feeling today?

15 posted on 05/21/2011 8:36:00 PM PDT by brytlea (If you don't know what APOD is you'd better find out!)

This stupidity has been used by some anti-Christian forces to portray how wrong and stupid Christians are. To that, I usually say, “All Muslims try to kill Americans!” Well, perhaps some Muslims don’t. Still, unlike these Christian leaders, Muslim leaders didn’t even try to denounce the statement publicly.

16 posted on 05/21/2011 8:38:27 PM PDT by paudio (The differences between Clinton and 0bama? About a dozen of former Democratic Congressmen.)

To: cripplecreek

Maybe that was His plan all along. :;

17 posted on 05/21/2011 8:43:26 PM PDT by berdie (qill)

Lacking a completely accurate roll call, we seem to be lacking the rolling, destructive earthquakes from time zone to time zone.

Man plans, God laughs. It’s not for us to say.

18 posted on 05/21/2011 8:44:08 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (PursuingLiberty.com))

Thanks tons for your caring.

It appears that the bleeding really has stopped. PRAISE GOD FOR THAT!

And . . . joy . . . I received a new appointment for a followup 2nd colonoscopy . . . as soon as I find out whether the date is for Sept or Nov. LOL.

Much appreciate your caring and prayers.

I have more energy today. PTL.

19 posted on 05/21/2011 8:45:44 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)

"Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life and pastor of Saddleback Church

"The world didn't end. I told you not to worry. See Mark 13:32

"NO ONE knows the day when these things will happen;not the angels nor THE SON HIMSELF! Only the Father knows"

It is not Scripturally necessary to teach that the Lord Jesus Christ, sitting presently at His Father's Right Hand does not NOW know the day or hour of His future return.

It was in the present-tense of His earthly ministry, in "the days of His flesh," (Hebrews 5:7) when men knew Him after the flesh (2 Cor. 5:16), in His humiliation, that he, along with the angels, were not cognizant of His future return ---- which, by the way, is not a reference to the rapture of the Body of Christ, but to His coming to earth to reign from David's Throne (Ps. 2; etc.)

To teach that the Glorified Christ STILL(in OUR present) is ignorant of the time of His future return is unnecessary to New Testament doctrine.

It illustrates a big missing principle in Rick Warren's study of the Scriptures, and why he gets so many other things fouled up as well. He doesn't even know how to read and interpret past, present, and future tenses in the contexts of the pasts, presents, and futures to which they belong.

20 posted on 05/21/2011 8:53:43 PM PDT by John Leland 1789 (Grateful.)

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