Harold Camping- we were wrong, but God still used us for His purpose!

by moshe 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  moshe

  from the Family Radio website last month--

  We were even so bold as to insist that the Bible guaranteed that Christ would return on May 21 and that the true believers would be raptured. Yet this incorrect and sinful statement allowed God to get the attention of a great many people who otherwise would not have paid attention. Even as God used sinful Balaam to accomplish His purposes, so He used our sin to accomplish His purpose of making the whole world acquainted with the Bible. However, even so, that does not excuse us. We tremble before God as we humbly ask Him for forgiveness for making that sinful statement. We are so thankful that God is so loving that He will forgive even this sin.

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  ah, weasel words that would be the envy of the WT writing department!- Notice that God has already forgiven them- so you should, too!!
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  Gayle

  So, God needs lies to help him in his purpose???? And people need lies to get their attention??? ugh
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  braincleaned

  LOL! Well reasonned Moshe!
  
  All these crooked prophets are living contradictions. Deut. 18: 20-22 reveals these idiots.
  
  Food for thought -- name ONE prophet in the bible who changed his story over and over again and excused himself by mentionning "new light".
  Well -- there are NONE. The WTS and Camping are jokes, and it's fair game to mock them, because of how unapolagetic they are; of how conceited they are.
  They are as much the tools of God thru his holy spirit than I am. It's just embarrassing.
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  Finkelstein

  We are so thankful that God is so loving that He will forgive even this sin.

  And that he will also allow us to keep all the money $$$ brought into are ministry through the sale of

  are books and donations .......Amen
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  moshe

  And that he will also allow us to keep all the money $$ brought into are ministry through the sale of are books and donations .......Amen

  
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  moshe

  And wasn't it Camping who came up with that date?- and when it flopped, the blame was not on , I was wrong, but we were wrong, and excuse us, in order to spread the blame around. It's the same sort of wordage that the WT uses to deflect blame away from their leadership's mistakes.
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  bigmouth

  This is the most common response by religious groups who live through a failed prophecy.

  It usually is followed by an assertion that they continue to be approved by God and that the failure itself was fore-ordained by God to cleanse the group of hangers-on. Most members find their faith affirmed by these events.

  Dumping a sincerely held conviction is so hard to do.
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  james_woods

  The incredible thing is what this reveals about the human nature of their believers.

  Time and again, these disgraced prophets (like the JWs) get away with their failed predictions and their followers just march right on behind them in lock-step.
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  Finkelstein

  Time and again, these disgraced prophets (like the JWs) get away with their failed predictions and their followers just march right on behind them in lock-step.

  True and this comes by virtue people putting their faith and believability onto one organization, via the mental indoctrination they've been put

  through by the very organization itself. For example tell a JWS that they are in a false religion and they will deny that suggestion to the hilt.
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  NOLAW

  We tremble before God

  Harold let me

  in peace please.