Harold Camping Says May 21 Rapture Prediction Was 'Incorrect And Sinful'

[brooklynite]

Huffington Post:

(RNS) Radio evangelist Harold Camping has called his erroneous prediction that the world would end last May 21 an "incorrect and sinful statement" and said his ministry is out of the prediction business.

"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!" reads the statement signed by Camping and his staff and posted on his ministry's website.

"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."

Perhaps not as painful a lesson as the one learned by the rubes who spent their life savings promoting Doomsday...

[Sanity Claws]

1. At least he learns

Some people never learn, even when faced with contrary facts.

[PassingFair]

2. This was not his first time at the apocolypse rodeo.

He predicted the world would end on September 6, 1994, as well.

He's probably too old to capitalize on another armageddon now.

[Shadowflash]

3. Don't hold your breath

Jesus is quoted in the bible telling his Disciples that he would be back within their generation, so even if he comes back now, he was either mistaken or a liar. Either way, not very god-like.

I chalk it up to 'never existed' myself.

[Goblinmonger]

4. Well, "a generation" to god could mean

5,000 years. How do we know? I mean, a generation right now in the US is 25 years. That's over 9,000 days. If the "day" in Genesis was thousands and thousands of years, then, Jesus has a shitload of time yet to return and have his prediction be correct.

Lurking theist apologists: How'd I do? You can use that one if you want.

[Shadowflash]

6. Heh! It depends on what the definition of the word 'is' is.

[mr blur]

5. w.o.w.

[sakabatou]

7. So how long until he makes a new prediction?