‘End of the World’ story, sloppy media reporting!
About the ‘End of the World’ Harold Camping story. The media are not getting it right in their reporting of this story, about what Harold Camping has actually said and predicted.
First of all, he did not previously predict –and fail– about the coming of the end of the world, as reporters report. Rather; he wrote a book about the possibility, not a sure thing. This time he states that it is going to happen, for sure. Years ago his Bible studies were not so advanced.
Another problem with the media is in failing to recognise those things attributed to Camping that he did not say, that May 21, 2011 would be the end of the world. What camping did say is that it would be a rapture event, and then five months following of judgement upon the earth, before the actual end of the world on October 21, 2011. Although, the next five months will be a much different earth than we now know, with all the death and horrors to be experienced by those left behind.
More sloppy reporting by the media, is in stating that Harold Camping says the end of the world will be at 6 PM everywhere around the world. What Camping actually predicts is that it probably will be about 6 PM in the USA, New York area. This tells me that it will probably be about 3 PM in California, and so on around the world. I also know that the scripture says that it will happen both day and night at the same time, which is just one of the several scriptures showing that the earth is round, and not flat as believed by the people of the day that it was written.
Do I believe that Camping is correct in his predictions about the end of the world? I don’t believe that he is. However, I haven’t studied the Bible as intensely as he has.
. I have heard Harold Camping state that the earth is a young earth, about 16,000 years old, –but any scientist will show and prove, by the evidences, that the earth is much much older than that. The Bible does not tell us how old the earth is, and the methods used, each of them, are flawed, i.e.trying to use Bible genealogies for that purpose for which they were not written. Also scriptures in the Bible using the number “one thousand” can be shown not to be a literal 1,000 years. –dc
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