[iandwk]

People who make predictions like this deserve to be laughed at. It reminds me of Oral Roberts claiming that God would take his life if people didn't donate, what was it, 8,000,000? He didn't get all of it, but somehow lived.

What really irritates me about all of this is that atheists and people of different religions look at things like this and lump all Christians into the same category. I don't like being looked at scornfully because of people like Oral Roberts or this Camping guy. It gives the Bible an undeserved reputation as being a useless book. It gives Christianity (meaning those who follow all of the teachings of Christ) a black eye, so to speak.

The Bible, the same book Camping used to make his predictions, plainly tells us that the world will end. This same book also plainly tells us that God alone knows when (Matt 24:36). If one is to believe the Bible, one must believe this statement by Jesus, claiming that even He doesn't know when it will happen. It seems to me that to ignore one very plain and easy to understand verse and yet make this type of prediction smacks not only of ignorance, but arrogance.

I don't mind if people laugh at me because I believe the Bible. I do wish fanatics would quit twisting what the Bible says to make it say what they want instead of what God wants.