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Dan Phillips and reader Joe Cassada collaborated and proposed one sure way for the false teacher to straighten everything out: Click for larger image I suppose I'll be joining the rest of an eager world in listening to the Open Forum tonight. My prayer today is for the best case scenario : that he demonstrates a true heart of repentance and contrition on the radio by admitting his psuedo-mystical biblical applications including the claim that the church age is over and assigning words to the Bible that clearly did not exist, calling everyone back to a local Bible-teaching body, and setting up a fund starting with his money to help those who he misled. UPDATE: Nope . *Sigh* UPDATE #2:

Although you should not be checking your blog feeds Sunday mornings (a-hem): Harold Camping's stunts indeed glorify God, and  here are 17 ways how .  It's a very thoughtful and provocative read on the day when we reflect on God's ways and His Word.

About twelve or so years ago I began to see the problems with my independent, fundie Baptist ways (not with all of it, just some problems).  One issue I was challenged on was predestination ("No, you can't believe in that! That's what * Calvinists*  believe!" was the sum of my reply, not that I knew what a Calvinist was at the time).  My friend, who was more patient with me than I deserved (no, I did not put the "fun" in fundamentalist) showed me some passages I had somehow never read.  Huh. Then things got interesting: he directed me to the radio ministry of someone who was helping him understand what the Bible had to say about the election of the saints. Harold Camping. I listened for months before suspecting something was wrong.  This was mainly because he was focusing on the doctrine of election at the time (as much as I remember from that deep sound that made the hot, Florida nights a little eerie).  I remember going back to my friend after a ...

Last week, the NY radio program " Iron Sharpens Iron " hosted a two-day debate between James R. White of Alpha and Omega Ministries and Harold Camping of Family Radio on the topic, "Has the Church Age ended?" Follow the following links to listen directly to the programs: Debate Day One (there were technical difficulties at the beginning of the program that get sorted out) Debate Day Two Day Three : James White reviews the debate and takes calls Day Four : Harold Camping reviews the debate and takes calls Harold Camping is president and co-founder of Family Radio, and has come to the conclusion that Judgment Day will occur on May 21, 2011 and that the church age ended in 1988 ( choose to hear some audio ). Those remaining within churches when Jesus returns are in eternal danger of their souls. James White wrote a response to Camping's teachings in " Dangerous Airwaves: Harold Camping Refuted & Christ's Church Defended ."