May 21st 2011? 'Judgement Day'?

Question

I don't understand this 'judgement day' thing. I'm not a Christian or anything I am just a teen growing up and finding things out for my self.

If God is supposed to return and take 2% of the world's population do the rest just go to hell even if they haven't done anything bad? Also theres WAYYYY more than 2% of the population that are Christian and have done good deeds throughout their life...

Is this just another hoax or not ? Nasa have proved that the December 2012 thing isn't going to happen which I am trusing them in BUT I am torn between believing this story or not.

What are your thoughts and perhaps you could tell me whats supposed to happen.


I'm not saying I completely believe in this but I like to do my research on things like this before making a firm desicion on my own.

I'm 16 and stuff like this is pretty darn scary especially when I've had to deal with my brother dying, my grandpa having cancer and many more horrible issues in my life.


Thanks x

Answer 1

End of the world predictions are ten-a-penny. They are usually created by religious nuts seeking attention or con artists with books to sell. I guarantee you will see at least 10 end of the world dates come and go in your lifetime. You already successfully survived the 1999 end of the world as predicted by Nostradamus and the Y2K collapse of civilisation as we know it.

The May 21st 2011 one sems to have been created by one Harold Camping, who falls into both the above categories I think. Check his website, and check it again on May 22nd, it should be interesting :)

Answer 2

"Is this just another hoax or not ?"



I'd call it a delusion rather than a hoax. It's from one evangelical preacher, a guy named Harold Camping. He's a formal civil engineer so he considers himself good with numbers. And he did a numerological study of the Bible, like thousands have done before him, and came up with that date.



The thing about numerology is that you can manipulate the numbers any way you want. This isn't the first time somebody's done such a "calculation". In fact, it isn't the first time Harold Camping did the calculation. He also "calculated" that Judgment Day was going to be in 1994. But the way the fanatic mind works, neither he nor his followers is bothered at all by the fact that the world went peacefully on in 1994.



The most famous case I know of is "The Great Disappointment of 1844" when another evangelical preacher did exactly the same thing, and also, like Camping, persuaded a bunch of his followers to believe him. They sold all their possessions and waited on top of a mountain to be taken up. Surprise!



That guy also did several subsequent calculations, and like Camping had followers believing in him right to the end. Though a certain number wanted to lynch him after the first one.



Edit: I think that William Miller, mentioned in an answer above, is the guy I'm talking about. I see he's got the 1994 Camping prediction also.

Answer 3

This date has been proposed as the date of the Rapture. This is when all christians are taken to heaven, leaving non-believers (such as myself) here on the Earth to suffer 7 years of Tribulation, followed (or preceded) by the 2nd coming of Christ.



Some notable rapture predictions include the following:



1844 - William Miller predicted Christ would return between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, then revised his prediction, claiming to have miscalculated Scripture, to October 22, 1844. The realization that the predictions were incorrect resulted in a Great Disappointment. Miller's theology gave rise to the Advent movement. The Baha'is believe that Christ did return as Miller predicted in

1844, with the advent of The Báb, and numerous Miller-like prophetic predictions from many religions are given in William Sears book, Thief in The Night.



1914, 1918, 1925, 1942 and 1975 - Dates set for the end by the Jehovah's Witnesses



1981 - Chuck Smith predicted that Jesus would probably return by 1981.



1988 - Publication of 88 Reasons why the Rapture is in 1988, by Edgar C. Whisenant.



1989 - Publication of The final shout: Rapture report 1989, by Edgar Whisenant. More predictions by this author appeared for 1992, 1995, and other years.



1992 - Korean group "Mission for the Coming Days" predicted October 28, 1992 as the date for the rapture.



1993 - Seven years before the year 2000. The rapture would have to start to allow for seven years of the Tribulation before the Return in 2000. Multiple predictions.



1994 - Pastor John Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted June 9, 1994. Radio evangelist Harold Camping predicted September 27, 1994.



2011 - Harold Camping's revised prediction has May 21, 2011 as the date of the rapture.



2060 - Sir Isaac Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060.

Answer 4

First there was the Millennium bug that was supposed to shut down the world on 1 Jan 2000.



That did not happen.



Now there are TWO Domesday predictions, May 21 2011, and Dec 21, 2012.



Both are a HOAX.

Read this:

http://www.2012hoax.org/

Answer 5

It would not make any sense by way of fact the Bible says the earth endures continuously in a minimum of four places. So whilst it talks relating to the "old heaven and earth" ending, we'd desire to think of approximately what this means, by way of fact that's of course no longer the planet. The old testomony supplies us the respond: Heaven and earth is a figurative word meaning God's covenant along with his human beings, or a equipment of government. subsequently, we are able to end that the old heaven and earth that fluctuate into destroyed replace into the old covenant worldwide. Then we pass to history and notice that it befell in advert 70 after the Roman Jewish conflict. And it replace into interior of 40 years of Jesus' ascension, which fulfilled His words, that "this era won't bypass away" in the previous the tip. we are able to then end that the tip is at the back of us, and we live interior the "new heaven and earth," or under the recent covenant, which the Bible says is eternal. Makes too plenty sense, so maximum folk won't purchase it. They anticipate the Bible to be extra complicated and secretive, whilst fairly that's amazingly ordinary to comprehend in case you stick to Biblical hermeneutics, learn Jewish way of existence and history, and seem up words interior the unique Hebrew and Greek.

Answer 6

In a way, yes.



It's the day when *you* can judge how much credence to put in those who predict apocalyptic events.



Make sure you do- and remember that, the next time an end-of-world prediction pops up.

Answer 7

I think it's the day the christians and/or catholics are supposed to repent or something cuz the world is gonna end. I don't know because I don't read the bible but I do know it's all a bunch of bullshit

Answer 8

I'm totally baffled as to why you are asking this question here in "Astronomy & Space." It has absolutely nothing to do with that subject, but rather seems to belong in the "Religion & Spirituality" category. Scientists simply don't believe in "judgement day."

Answer 9

No, dear.







I can assure you that nothing will happen.





So, you'd better not decide to do anything crazy before that day, or you might not respect yourself on the fay after... (and find it even harder to move on with your life...)









All the best!

Answer 10

Not this end-of-the-world-party again.