Harold Camping has been in the news the last several days thanks to his prediction (and his organization’s costly campaign to alert the world) that the rapture will occur today at 6:00 p.m. in all time zones. Writing for the Chicago Tribune, Manya A. Brachear explains:
Don’t mark your calendars yet. Reports that the world will end Saturday are greatly exaggerated, according to many evangelical Christian scholars.
For starters, California radio host Harold Camping, 89, president of the Christian Family Radio Network, hasn’t predicted the world will end this spring. He has predicted Jesus will return and believers will rise to heaven. The world won’t end until October, he says.
So What?
My wife and I have dinner plans at exactly 6:00 p.m. We won’t arrive early or ensure the valet service isn’t staffed by those who may be recalled to another realm. We will, however, enjoy our meal and the company of a friend.
After the attention recently afforded to another so-called Christian leader who planned to burn the Qur’an, I can only wonder who will be featured next for her or his misguided beliefs or planned actions.
- How many times have you heard or read about the rapture or the end of the world this week?
- What do you believe about the end of time as we presently experience it? Why?
- Is your faith primarily oriented to this life or the life to come (life beyond life)? Why?