Ever since I heard of the Rapture predictions for today, I've been in a pretty bad mood about it. I mean, I'm a Christian, and I believe that it will eventually happen, but I (rightly, it would appear) dismissed the 21st of May theory as bunkem. Why? Because, like Harold Camping, I read the Bible. The crucial difference is that I remembered Matthew 24:36 - "But about (Judgement Day) or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." Basically, the timing is so secret, even Jesus himself doesn't know when Judgement Day is. What are the implications of this, if Judgement Day really was today? Jesus, fully man and yet FULLY GOD, would know less than some mechanic from America? The mechanic would be in some way greater than God? Isn't that what the Devil got booted out of heaven for thinking?
As for the arguments that God might just have also chosen today, purely coincidentally, I think I can shoot down those too. Matthew 24:44 says "So you must also be ready, because the Son of Man (Jesus) will come at an hour when you do not expect him." Basically, people are (were) expecting Jesus to come today, therefore He could not have come today. I would apply the same logic to the whole 2012 idea, and any other end-of-the-world predictions.
Harold Camping obviously forgets that one can't just pick and choose bits of the Bible to be correct or false. In accepting the Bible, one has to accept the whole lot, and not just the select bits which back up your theory. Granted, a lot of it is, I believe, meant to be interpreted metaphorically, but I fail to see how direct statements like the ones I've outlined above can be at all subjective.
(Any "Christianity is wrong" comments will be deleted post-haste unless you have a watertight argument [which is impossible], so don't even bother.)
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