The story of Harold Camping

Posted on May 22, 2011 
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Robert Godfrey, President of Westminster Seminary California writes:

“If you were to drive the freeways of southern California, you would see from time to time billboards proclaiming the Judgment Day on May 21, 2011 and declaring that the Bible guarantees it. To understand these signs we must know something of the history as well as the theology of Harold Camping.

I am in a somewhat distinctive position to write on this subject since I first met Camping in the late 1950s. I learned a great deal from him then, and so I find what follows a very sad story. I pray for him that the Lord will deliver him from the serious errors into which he has fallen.…”

He sketches out Harold Camping’s drift from orthodox Christianity in a series of five articles on the Westminster Seminary California website. (Reflection on this background may prove useful in conversations this week.)

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5. (h/t Todd Pruitt at 1517.)