[Sarcasm] This feels like deja vu, but it's not. Harold Camping is back, ladies and gentlemen, and according to Mr. Camping, next week is the REAL ending of the world. Yeah, May 21st wasn't quite right - it's really October 21st, and has been all along. Last time, Harold made a simple mathematics error in his computations of the end of the world, and the new answer (the correct one, mind you) is October 21st. [/Sarcasm]
It's hard to write anything new on this. On Rapture Day earlier this year, I wrote a somewhat detailed post and argument against Harold Camping, and most of what I said then stands true now (you can read that post here). There has been no media splash of his exploits this time around, unlike earlier this year when you couldn't even get away from the topic if you tried. I personally haven't checked into his actions or the actions of his followers, but I hope that the followers from the previous time around have learned their lesson and abandoned Mr. Camping to his delusions. If they still follow him...well, more power to them and their beliefs. It is nothing more than a failing faith.
Thankfully guys like Camping can be good teaching tools for showing what is true in comparison to what is blatantly false. I remember around the time of the first Rapture date, a middle school girl of the student ministry at my church was deeply bothered by the idea of the world ending, and resolved to begin praying for her unsaved mother. And while Camping is in extreme error to think in his "wisdom" that he can pinpoint a date for the end of the world, the whole end-of-the-world hullabaloo did produce a positive reminder - Christ can return at any time, and it is best we live in such a way that the world could really end tomorrow. We would want to share Christ with those who are unsaved in our lives, knowing that tomorrow they would be in hell for eternity. And if some crazy old man can produce a reaction of that kind, then perhaps the church could use another event like this - to wake us up of the true reality we face.
Please check out these other essays and posts by my fellow apologists in the Christian Apologetics Blogger Alliance:
http://www.reasonsforgod.org/2011/10/does-harold-camping-discredit-christianity/
http://www.cltruth.com/blog/2011/is-jesus-christ-coming-back-on-october-21-2011/
http://www.hieropraxis.com/2011/10/is-the-end-of-the-world-at-hand-reflecting-on-judgment-day-with-poetry/
http://lukenixblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/rapture-judgment-day-and-christs.html
http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2011/10/harold-camping-a-failure-of-accountability/
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