The world just won’t seem to end on schedule
The 2012 Mayan apocalypse was a total bust. The “super blood moon” of September 2015 failed to lead to rains of frogs and fire. And the May 2011 predictions of judgment day by an Oakland, California, radio preacher failed to pan out.
Or did they?
Falling into a long tradition of repurposing and revamping old doomsday predictions, an online Christian group is insisting that the now-deceased preacher, Harold Camping, was right, and that his prophecies forecast the end of the world. Today.
Yes, Oct. 7, 2015, is the new go-to date for Doomsday, at least according to the Pennsylvania-based eBible Fellowship. According to the group, Camping was correct that May 21, 2011, was an important day, spiritually speaking. On that day, they hold, God saved his last soul and closed the door of heaven. The group believes in the notion of predestination, which holds that God decided who would be saved from the start and a person’s actions have no bearing on their afterlife.
In 2011, Camping claimed that after the May 21 day of judgment, there would be only about five months until the world’s end on Oct. 21, 2011. The eBible Fellowship has recalculated that second date, putting it at Oct. 7, 2015, “in all likelihood.”
The online church’s predictions haven’t gained the same traction as Camping’s original pronouncements, possibly because Camping’s group was aggressive with outreach, buying billboards and conducting media interviews.
Nevertheless, the revised doomsday date highlights how end-of-the-world predictions persists.
By Stephanie Pappas/ Live science. Com