The Sad Story of Harold Camping

Harold Camping is well known as a date-setter and eschatological speculator.  He has been soundly condemned by the Reformed churches for engaging in such practices.

 

But who is he?  Where did he come from?  What about his "Reformed" past?

Dr. W. Robert Godfrey has begun a very helpful series on Camping's personal history, recounting his own early days as a new Christian when he and Camping crossed paths when both attended the Alameda Christian Reformed Church.

Godfrey's series is very helpful in providing the background story to Camping's Family Radio, as well as Camping's rather bizarre end-times calculations.

Harold Camping and the End of the World, Part One
Harold Camping and the End of the World, Part Two
Harold Camping and the End of the World, Part Three

HAROLD CAMPING'S PREDICTION & The UNTOLD STORY - PART II

In the first column, we considered the sad history of Harold Camping that led to his departure from the church.  When the elders of the Alameda CRC censured Camping for his wild end time predictions, he refused to submit to their discipline. This facilitated a split in the Alameda CRC in which over forty percent of the congregation followed Camping and departed from the church. As we considered, pride and bitterness had so overcome Camping that he was able to declare that upon the year of his censure and departure from the church, God was done with the entire church, and from that time forward, God would only work in the “true believers” who were willing to take the stand with Camping and come out of the church.

In this column, we evaluate the fruits of Camping’s teaching.  We also address why predictions of the end world dangerous, and how Christians are to live in preparation for Christ’s return. Keep Reading>>>