“Dear Christians who find Harold Camping crazy, you’re not that different if you think Jesus is still coming back, but at an unknown time.”
Tweeted by Hemant Mehta of The Friendly Atheist.
Retweeted and posted here due to the plain truth if it.
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Harold Camping is nothing better than a huckster, who may or may not have known better.
Dan, you and Hemant Mehta miss (or misunderstand) the issue, and the plain truth of it is exactly what Jesus Christ himself said:
“But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Mark 13:32)
The true path of a Christian in this matter is to not concern himself or herself with the Second Coming, Rapture, or Apocalypse, but live every day trying to honor God and in doing so, do the best they can emulate Christ.
All other issues regarding the so-called “end of the world” are merely superfluous.
-Tom
Knowing Hemant, I’m fairly certain that the issue on which he was commenting was that believing “Jesus will return” isn’t that much less “off the wall” than believing “Jesus will return and I know the date.” It was mostly in response to those who post that same verse you posted as refutation of Camping’s prediction, as if it somehow makes Camping crazy and the poster completely rational.
I don’t know if Camping has it online anymore, but he did have an explanation of how, based on biblical information (and he had plenty of verses to back him up), there were exceptions to the verse you quoted and that it was possible (for some individuals) to know the date and time. I didn’t find his explanation particularly compelling, in much the same way I don’t find the verse you quoted as particularly compelling… but as you know, I don’t find the whole belief in the return of Jesus (or related dogma) particularly compelling in the first place.
That aside, I don’t think Hemant was commenting on what the “true path of a Christian” is, though I’m sure he would agree, as do I, that doing the best you can to emulate Christ is a pretty good path to tread. 🙂