Harold Camping Admits Sin, Announces End to Doomsday Predictions

The Christian Post ^ | 3/6/12 | Lillian Kwon

[marshmallow]

After numerous failed doomsday predictions, Family Radio founder Harold Camping announced this month that he has no plans to predict ever again the day of God's Judgment. He also issued an apology to listeners, admitting that he was wrong.

"We have learned the very painful lesson that all of creation is in God's hands and He will end time in His time, not ours!" a statement on Family Radio's website reads. "We humbly recognize that God may not tell His people the date when Christ will return, any more than He tells anyone the date they will die physically."

Camping, 90, has made predictions about Judgment Day, Christ's return and the end of the world for the past few decades – with the May 21, 2011, forecast receiving the most media attention. Each time the date passed, he did not admit to mistaking the timing but instead reasoned that the events happened "spiritually" rather than physically.

[Gamecock]

YBPDLN PL Ping

Not exactly a church pastor, but still pingworthy....

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[duckman]

“Snooki is due to to deliver her offspring.”

Snooki was asked how it would feel just prior to giving birth.
Snooki: I think that it would be like a fart you were holding for a long time.

REAL CLASS ACT.

[Gamecock]

GRPL Ping.

For those of you who dodn’t know, Camping left the Reformed Camp some time ago...

[Eepsy]

The irony being that, just prior to childbirth, it feels exactly like a bm you've been holding a long time....

[jboot]

I didn't realize he was ever Reformed. Doomsday predictors and Rapture Preppers focus ridicule on the Body of Christ. My former pastor fell into terminal end times focus. I hear from reliable sources that he's been preaching out of Revelations chapters 4 and 5 for two years. He's hardly unique.

[jboot]

My wife says that I look exactly like Buddy Holly, if Buddy Holly had gotten old. ;_;

I can't hold a tune worth a darn, though. No hit single for me. Guess I'll live.

[Lee N. Field]

Not exactly a church pastor, but still pingworthy....

An anti-church pastor.

[Lee N. Field]

I didn't realize he was ever Reformed.

Christian Reformed Church. Off the rails in '89, IRRC. G00gledy googledy...Robert Godfrey, The End of the World According to Harold Camping, part 1 and following, gives some of the history of that.

Chris Gordon, JUDGMENT DAY, MAY 21, 2011? - HAROLD CAMPING & The UNTOLD STORY , on Camping's discipline and removal from teaching by the Alameda CRC. Very coincidentally, Camping dates the removal of the Holy Spirit that approximately that date.

So it's not just dispensationalists that get their eschatology whacky.

Doomsday predictors and Rapture Preppers focus ridicule on the Body of Christ. My former pastor fell into terminal end times focus.

Eschatology is a much broader subject than most think.

[RansomOttawa]

Isn't that special.

When will he repent of declaring the end of the church—a far more serious heresy?

[Lee N. Field]

My neighbor across the street took out a 150,000 home equity loan and gave it to this clown. He was out on his lawn a few months ago looking up at the sky convinced that day was the last day. My 10 year old son and I were going to play ball on our lawn and then when he wasn't looking, dump some clothes on the lawn and hide so he would think we were whisked up to Heavan.

So, how has he taken all this?