Is May 21 2011 a doomsday?

The 2011 end times anticipation fabricated by Christian radio host Harold Camping states that the Rapture in premillennial theology, the demography up into heaven of God's accept bodies will booty abode on May 21, 2011 at 6 p.m. bounded time the rapture will ambit the apple time area by time area and that the end of the apple as we apperceive it will booty abode bristles months after on October 21, 2011.Camping, admiral of the Family Radio Christian network, claims the Bible as his antecedent and says May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of acumen "beyond the adumbration of a doubt".His followers affirmation that about 200 actor bodies (approximately 3% of the world's population) will be raptured.

      Camping's predictions accept not been accepted by best added Christian groups; some accept absolutely alone them.An account with a accumulation of abbey leaders acclaimed that all of them accept appointed casework as accepted for Sunday, May 22. Camping ahead claimed that the apple would end in September 1994.

     Camping's rapture prediction, forth with some of his added article and beliefs, accept sparked some altercation in the Christian world. His critics generally adduce Bible verses such as Matthew 24:36 which they affirmation betoken the date of the end will never be accepted by anyone but God until it absolutely happens. James Kreuger, columnist of the book Secrets of the Apocalypse — Revealed, has declared that while he believes the rapture is coming, Camping is incorrect in attempting to attach bottomward a date. "For all his learning, Camping makes a archetypal beginner's aberration back he sets a date for Christ's return," writes Kreuger. "Jesus himself said in Matthew 24:36, 'Of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my ancestor only.'"However, Camping and his followers acknowledge that this assumption alone activated to the "church age" or "pre-tribulation period" and does not administer to the present day, citation added verses (such as 1 Thessalonians 5:1-5:5) in their rebuttal.

In a 2001 pamphlet, Camping asserted that believers should "flee the church," resigning from any abbey they accord to, because the "Church Age" is over and the "Great Tribulation" has begun. This affirmation was controversial and drew "a flurry of attacks".

Edwin M. Yamauchi critiqued Camping's dating of the Flood back Camping aboriginal appear his account in 1970.

Criticism of the May 21 anticipation has ranged from austere appraisal to ridicule. Theology assistant Matthew L. Skinner, autograph at the Huffington Post, acclaimed the "long history of bootless speculation" about the End Times and cautioned that end-of-the-world allocution can advance Christians to amusing aloofness instead of "working for the world's redemption". Some columnists accept mocked the anticipation with amusing columns from a agnostic viewpoint.

  

Evolutionary biologist and agnostic Richard Dawkins absolved Camping's prediction, autograph that "he will accordingly explain, on May 22nd, that there charge accept been some absurdity in the calculation, the rapture is adjourned to ... and amuse accelerate added money to pay for adapted billboards." California Director of American Atheists Larry Hicock said that "Camping's well-intentioned rapture attack is apocalyptic of the problems with religion"