Countdown to Heresy: Harold Camping

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After putting a lot of thought into this I have to say I do hope Jesus comes back today. If not today, I hope Jesus comes back May 22. If not May 22, I hope Jesus comes back May 23. If not May 23, I hope Jesus comes back on May 24. And so on, and so on and so on, until one day He does come back.😉
 
The end of the world means end to the human race. The end of the human race means the end of every individual man and woman. That is all that those who believe in Camping is worried about.
But the real end of the human race will commence when nobody else will plan to have a child or so. When everybody become convinced that pregnancy is a threat to the woman and every birth is an added cause of poverty.
That will trigger the countdown for the end of humanity although the end of the world may not be imminent as yet because God can always create others who would take care of or master the world He created.
Let Harold do his Camping and we go on believing and doing the will of God for each one of us.
 
SteveVH said:
Despair is a sin because it means that one does not really trust God. Do you believe you were forgiven this morning? Why would you be afraid? I actually feel a little funny here because I am helping to perpetuate this guy’s baloney so I’ll just ask, who do you trust more, Jesus and the Catholic Church or Harold Camping? I’m looking forward to seeing how he squirms out of this one.
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I have to disagree with you on despair being a sin, because I think something has to be said about clinical depression and other clinical emotional disorders. I, for example, have Generalized Social Phobia, which means I have a strong fear of social situations. I get by without medication, but it still affects me. Every time I go to Mass, I go to the bathroom at least once to take a few deep breaths and remind myself that it’s all right, that no one is staring at me and thinking that I look ugly, that no one noticed how my voice cracked during the opening hymn, that no one thinks I’m stupid and rude for slipping out to go to the bathroom, ect.

Is that a sin, because I don’t trust God enough? Is it a sin of vanity? No. Not to my mind. It is a cross that I bear daily, an intense fear of being judged negatively. It’s something I struggle with, that I have improved on with therapy, and which God helps me endure with patience.
 
childofTheresa said:
Is that a sin, because I don’t trust God enough? Is it a sin of vanity? No. Not to my mind. It is a cross that I bear daily, an intense fear of being judged negatively. It’s something I struggle with, that I have improved on with therapy, and which God helps me endure with patience.
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Without knowing your situation, or a lot about theology, I am guessing that the sin would be acting on dispair (saying God can’t help) as opposes to simply feeling it an trying to look to God. The church, from my understanding, has been tradionally open to those with mental disorders and suffering from one is not a sin!
 
Soldier_Of_God said:
Well, if Jimmy Akin isn’t enough and if other people’s comments aren’t enough, how about the word of God?

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away.That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."
**- Matthew 23:36-40 **

*“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come." *
- Mark 13:32-33
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We can’t know the day or hour, but do the tumultuous times we’re living in indicate it’s coming soon?
 
wbthrower said:
OK, this man claims the “rapture” will occur tomorrow @ 6:00pm.
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Clearly, 6:00 PM Wittenburg time. 👍
Oops, missed it.

OK, 6:00 PM Rome time. Nope missed that one, too.

Alright, we missed Jerusalem, Istanbul, too. 🤷

And only 14 minutes left eastern time. St Louis, then, home of the headquarters of the LCMS. 😃

Just kidding, folks.
Jon
 
JonNC said:
Clearly, 6:00 PM Wittenburg time. 👍
Oops, missed it.

OK, 6:00 PM Rome time. Nope missed that one, too.

Alright, we missed Jerusalem, Istanbul, too. 🤷

And only 14 minutes left eastern time. St Louis, then, home of the headquarters of the LCMS. 😃

Just kidding, folks.
Jon
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Well My Friend you are one that I really thought would be taken. That just proves this was False.
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

what about christmas vacation at disneyland 😦

i need a hug
 
So my daughter comes running into the room, screaming “Mom, Mom”.

She scared me. I thought she saw thieves breaking into the house or something. It was about 6. She takes me to the window that faces the street and shows me three identical long cracks in the street. She thought an earthquake was starting, LOL.
 
Maybe its at 6 o’clock pacific time? :eek:

lol jk.

God Bless :signofcross:

Pray for the souls in purgatory :gopray2:
 
JackVk said:
Can anyone help me? For some reason, this still makes me nervous. I don’t necessary believe it, but I feel like I am being too uncritical about it. We’ve written this Camping fellow off as a fool, but the same thing happened to Jesus. We say all these guys have been wrong multiple times, but they responded saying “it’s like telling the Wright brothers to give up trying to fly…”. I just keep uncritically thinking, “What if they’re right?” I know intellectually it’s all bogus (Jimmy Akin trashed it on his blog), but why does a gut feeling tell me otherwise?
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Jack,
It may not seem so, but I see this as a wonderful opportunity. I understand that you utilized the Sacrament of Reconcilliation, went to Mass this morning, and feel that you have intellectuallized and crittically thought the whole thing out only to have some nagging consternation about it all.
Try this - Go to Him, personally, physically and sit with Him. Set aside an Hour of Adoration to be with Him in the Tabernacle, or exposed in the Monstrance if exposition is available. This may in fact be a good time to begin to spend time with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, To meditate, to listen. You may hear Him say " Be Still and know that I AM God".
I hope you find this thought helpful.
 
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