Thoughts on May 21 Rapture Date

Radio host Harold Camping predicts that judgement day, the rapture, will occur May 21, 2011 at 6:00pm. It will strike when that hour reaches your time zone. Harold Camping claims his analysis of Revelation is evidence for this doomsday date.

The question to ask is why people want to believe that the rapture will happen May 21. Maybe they don't like the way the culture is going, or how the churches are becoming; indeed Camping himself asserts that the churches have been taken over by Satan: his assertions sometimes seem not too far off. But to say that all churches have been taken over bespeaks quite a lot of knowledge held by speaker...

Anyway, we don't claim to know when the rapture is--May 21 or otherwise, so we decided to publish a litany of opinions on the issue.

Setting a date for the rapture means that people will continue to sin until a couple days or hours before the predicted time or date when they will get right with God. Setting a date incentivizes sin, and therefore it is better to believe that the rapture will happen any time. Any proclamation that incentivizes sin is a false one.

Wouldn't it be funny if the rapture happened May 20th?

I hope the rapture happens May 21. My life's miserable.

Is the rapture even biblical?

This man is using an ancient document that isn't exactly meant to be taken literally when it comes to dates and figures to predict when the world will end.

Starlight proves that the universe is older than 13,023 years old but Camping claims this is universe's age. Thus, his assumptions concerning the validity of time span in the Bible are based on falsehood.

This is another example of religion misleading people.

I want the rapture to hold off until I have a chance to get married.

Regardless, we think you should be ready May 21, as you would any other date...but maybe a little more so on May 21.