Are those rapture suicides true?

[Big_Dummy]

Do NOT commit Suicide on May 22 = Harold Camping is a False Teacher!
youtube.com/watch?v=VwNGE7csZkw
serialyouthpastor.com/info-rapture-suicides

Harold Camping’s False Prophecies Have Real, Deadly Consequences

A California woman named Lyn Benedetto was one of millions who heard Camping’s message, and became concerned that her daughters would suffer terribly in the coming apocalypse. She allegedly forced her daughters, 11 and 14, to lie on a bed and then cut their throats with a box cutter. She then tried to kill herself, though police arrested Benedetto and all three survived.

Others were not so lucky. An elderly man in Taiwan reportedly killed himself on May 5 ahead of the Rapture by jumping out of a building. He had heard that doomsday was imminent, and had taken recent earthquakes and tsunamis as early warning signs.

nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=5098

Harold Camping makes new rapture prediction, escapes justice for related death

Before you start thinking that Harold Camping is nothing more than an entertainer, where his followers are paying for the suspense and thrills of living in the end of days, you should know that people have literally died as a direct result of Camping’s predictions. A Christian man in Kenya was found dead in a church on the day of the false rapture. Meanwhile, a woman attempted to murder her two young children and her self, putting a box cutter to their throats and their wrists, as well as her own. If it weren’t for an unannounced visit from a friend, all three of them would be dead, all because the mother believed the rapture was about to happen.

matt-rock.newsvine.com/_news/2011/05/24/6708454-harold-camping-makes-new-rapture-prediction-escapes-justice-for-related-death?threadId=3135133

Harold Camping’s ‘Rapture’ prediction ends in tragedy; teen believed dead

Continue reading on Examiner.com Harold Camping’s ‘Rapture’ prediction ends in tragedy; teen believed dead - National missing persons | Examiner.com examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/harold-camping-s-rapture-prediction-ends-tragedy-teen-believed-dead#ixzz1NOGLeju0
examiner.com/missing-persons-in-national/harold-camping-s-rapture-prediction-ends-tragedy-teen-believed-dead

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Doomsday prediction brings deadly results, new prediction
imperfectparent.com/topics/2011/05/24/doomsday-prediction-brings-deadly-results-new-prediction/

Lyn Benedetto accused of cutting throats of her daughters to save them from the rapture
100gf.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/lyn-benedetto-accused-of-cutting-throats-of-her-daughters-to-save-them-from-the-rapture/

 

[Joe_5859]

Are those stories for real?

 

[puzzleannie]

I don’t know the simple fact that they are in the news media makes one question the validity. However I did just hear from a reliable personal source of a case of a suicide of a man who is already unbalanced who did put faith in Camping and his prediction, this is someone close to us, and if it turns out to be true, well anger is too gentle a word for what I am feeling now.

 

[Mumbles140]

Yes, I have to wonder with Joe. Is there a more credible/legitimate news source (AP, Reuters, CNN, etc) that has these stories, or simply blogs? It seems as if the story of the mother and her children is presented differently by 2 bloggers - one claiming double murder and the other near tragedy.

 

[Monica4316]

that is so tragic.

 

[LaFleurDeLis]

I just don’t understand why people would committ suicide if they truly believed the rapture was going to happen. Perhaps they weren’t going to be one of the raptured, but how are they to know? Especially the 11 and 14 year old. If you’re not raptured, the tribulation will be terrible, but if you gave yourself to God and offered up your suffering and lived the last few months for Him, then they would be saved.

 

[mom2em]

Are those stories for real?

Yes, I have to wonder with Joe. Is there a more credible/legitimate news source (AP, Reuters, CNN, etc) that has these stories, or simply blogs? It seems as if the story of the mother and her children is presented differently by 2 bloggers - one claiming double murder and the other near tragedy.

The story of the mother and her children is on ktla.com and on abcactionnews.com As to whether we can consider those sources reputable might be another issue.

KTLA

ABC action news

 

[Daizies]

Here it is on abc news:
abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/national/california-mother,-lyn-benedetto,-tries-to-kill-kids-before-the-tribulation,-deputies-say

edit: too slow , someone got to it before me

 

[Mumbles140]

The story of the mother and her children is on ktla.com and on abcactionnews.com As to whether we can consider those sources reputable might be another issue.

KTLA

ABC action news

Ok, so my understanding is this happened 2 months ago, and fortunately, no one died in this incident. This is far less severe (and much less relevant) than was let on in the OP. Although I do apologize - I misread the OP the first time and thought the mother did actually kill her two daughters.

As for the man in Taiwan, my guess is that he had some other issues. Too be honest, I feel like people who take Camping seriously must have something wrong with them - either some deep emotional lack, paranoia/hysteria, or some other thing that prevents them from going “This guy is nonsense, and has been wrong before”.

Lastly, a man dying in a Christian Church on any given day isn’t that bizarre. People have heart attacks at Mass just like they do in their homes or at work. If there is more to the story, I might be interested, but likely not if it leads back to the Rapture…

 

[Big_Dummy]

I started the thread with the title, **Are those rapture suicides true? **because I was not sure of this myself. I did not see it in a well known newspaper or on TV news. But, it is popping up here and there on the web. My impression of Harold Campings groups is they check their brains at the door and forget where they laid it on the way out of church. Years back I had some correspondance with one of his followers and frankly, I could not make heads or tails of their thinking.

 

[Joe_5859]

I started the thread with the title, **Are those rapture suicides true? **because I was not sure of this myself.

I know that now. I noticed the thread title after my post where all I did was repeat your question.

 

[Big_Dummy]

I heard today that Camping recently had a stroke, we should pray for his salvation and health. His theology is that of Oneness, Modalism, Sabellianism.