After driving by a house that displayed signs advertising for Harold Camping's Family Radio and it's Open Forum broadcast, I needed to send a postcard to its residents challenging their belief in Harold Camping's teachings, especially his current prediction for Judgment Day and the Rapture to occur May 21, 2011. My postcard read something like this:
Dear friends of Family Radio,
Judgment will come May 21. It is possible, however, that it will come quietly at the end of the day, with Family Radio reaching its expiration date as a ministry. If that happens, please keep your faith in Jesus but change the channel. There would still be good churches faithfully meeting together until he comes, and they would welcome you. God is still good. Jonah 4:2; Psalm 145:8-9; John 20:31; Romans 10:9-10. —Robert
A man responded—let’s call him Phil. Most of our debating was via facebook message or e-mail. Our first couple rounds, however, were by written mail, and these will be blogged as scanned images.
My name is Robert. I attend a Church of the Nazarene. I think God is good and his gospel is for everyone who cares to receive it (Psalm 145; John 20:31). And I reject Harold Camping's May 21, 2011 prediction for many reasons, as will be seen in the Debate Pages.
Phil and I are both armchair scholars, not real ones. But we still cover tremendous matters of scripture, scholarship, and reason.
The complete record begins in Debate Page 1, located on the right side of the screen.
I see that Harold Camping has fooled a lot of people. Even though he is contradicting Jesus own words that "about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" (Matthew 24:36), Camping is fulfilling one of Jesus prophecies at the same time. Jesus said "Many false prophets will appear and deceive many people" (Matthew 24:11). So Harold Camping is both contradicting and fulfilling Jesus' words.
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