JUDGEMENT DAY; Is this #### or is the world really going to end at 6pm tomorrow?!
Saturday is last day on earth, claims evangelical Christian
Harold Camping, 89, wrongly predicted 'the rapture' date once before in 1994
God's chosen few ascend to heaven, sinners left behind to face earthquakes.
Atheists hold parties to celebrate 'inevitable embarrassment'
Christian author calls Camping's prediction 'flat-out wrong'
The world will end at 6pm tomorrow according to the followers of an evangelical Christian minister, who claims he calculated the date and time of 'The Rapture' by adding up numbers in the Bible.
Harold Camping, 89, is the leader of Family Radio, an independent ministry which spreads its word via a network on 66 radio stations and online broadcasts.
Camping has previously written a book called '1994?', in which he wrongly predicted the end of the world in that year, and was later forced to apologise for a mathematical error.
The Rapture is supposedly the time when God's chosen people ascend to heaven and the rest are left behind to face apocalyptic scenes of earthquakes and fire.
A period of 'trial' on earth for non-believers is forecast to follow and could last six months, but by October 21 all those who have not been saved will be dead, goes the prophecy.
The concept of Judgment Day is a long-standing one, but the idea of the Rapture is more modern, having first appeared in Christian teaching in the 19th century.
However, this predicted date is entirely the work of Camping and his followers, who have spent decades studying the bible for coded messages.
So certain is he of his revised date, following on from his 1994 embarrassment, that he and his followers have spent millions of dollars on billboards across America that have been warning for weeks: 'Judgment Day is coming May 21st, 2011 – The Bible guarantees it!'
I don't believe for a second that anybody can predict when the world will end. The guys got it wrong before and he's gotten it wrong again.
ETA There is a verse in the Bible (I can't remember off the top of my head which verse it is.) that basically says nobody knows when the world will end other than God. If Harold Camping spent as much time reading his Bible as he does playing with his calculator he'd save himself a whole load of embarassment
There is a verse in the Bible (I can't remember off the top of my head which verse it is.) that basically says nobody knows when the world will end other than God.
If it ends tomorrow, it ends tomorrow. If it doesn't, it doesn't. But the world was apparently meant to end on 06.06.06 and well, we're all still alive. So I don't believe it. But if it does then I just want to say that it was nice knowing you all
Deuteronomy 25, 11-12 :
If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
Nous avons abrité tous les rêves du monde,
Et c'est dans le soleil que nous avons grandi.
