Should Harold Camping return finances to those who invested in his May 21 Judgment Day ministry?

Question

An open letter to Camping's website:

I watched your ministry's video on YouTube and read your tracts. You claim your faith is in the Bible. Can't help but ask, which part? 

In Mark 13:31-33 Jesus says,
31Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
32But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

God is not mocked. He doesn't contradict Himself. So, if this ministry is biblically based, why did you choose to dismiss Jesus' direct words? 

In 2 Timothy 3:16-17 it says,
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

James 14-21 says,
14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?
15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,
16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble!
20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?

This all leads to the following challenge:
Will you seek God's mercy, find it in your heart to confess and repent of this falseness and do right by those who've been deceived...those who misplaced their devotion to this ministry? Will you find it the right thing to do by offering finances to them so they can get back on their feet?
And finally, will you do the right thing and step out from public ministry?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

No, I think people should learn from their ignorance. Jesus specifically warned us about false prophets like this.

Atheist Frog · Answer

Your bible quotes are the very definition of tl;dr, but in the interest of answering, I'll just say that those fools and their money were parted, and they should have to live with their stupid decision. Just goes to show you that a lot of people take that book of bronze age myths too seriously, and you should run away as quickly as you can when someone starts spouting from it as if it's an authoritative source.

? · Answer

i've got self assurance with all my heart it quite is going to take place. The proofs can not be refuted! there's no threat at all of it not coming to bypass and in case you're one in each of God's choose he will allow you to comprehend those issues and open your eyes. you could run, bury it, suppress it, cover it, attempt to push aside it yet you could not escape a date on a calendar! in ordinary terms 2 months now ultimate earlier that super and terrible day of Jesus Christ: would 21, 2011 Psalm 37:38 however the transgressors would be destroyed mutually: the tip of the depraved would be decrease off.

Anonymous · Answer

They were donations and all the money went to Family Radio, plus Mr. Camping is an old man with much more important things than money on his mind. Look at the Lamborghini he drives ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOdNOUu26Iw#t=45s ).

God displayed His powerful might by erupting Iceland's volcano on May 21, 2011, as a sign of sparing mankind thanks to Family Radio's ministry.

Thank God!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=use2FFcLO7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMStcqHfwQ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Whu05b4oo

Yes, we CAN know the date. Matthew 24:36 does not stand up to the rest of the Bible.
http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/wecanknow/

God has always warned mankind. God chose Harold Camping to warn mankind.
"Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he REVEALETH his secret unto his servants the prophets." (Amos 3:7)

"And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall SEE thy teachers" (Isaiah 30:20)

"Then opened he their understanding, that they might UNDERSTAND the scriptures" (Luke 24:45)

"Those who are wise will INSTRUCT many, THOUGH for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered." (Daniel 11:33)

Noah and his family were a cult minority. Did the world listen?
"By faith Noah, being WARNED of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." (Hebrews 11:7)

"And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth [person], a PREACHER of RIGHTEOUSNESS, BRINGING IN the flood upon the world of the ungodly" (2 Peter 2:5)

Jesus doesn't come unexpectedly. Does a thief come to bring blessings?
"The thief cometh not, but for TO STEAL, and TO KILL, and TO DESTROY: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." (John 10:10)

The ungodly are in view here.
"For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come ON THEM suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they WILL NOT escape." (1 Thessalonians 5:2-3)

"Remember, therefore, what you have RECEIVED and HEARD; obey it, and repent. But if you DO NOT wake up, I WILL COME like a thief, and you WILL NOT know at what time I will come to you." (Revelation 3:3)

All throughout the Bible man is warned.
"And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD HATH SENT US to destroy it." (Genesis 19:12-13)

"Jonah…cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown." (Jonah 3:4)

"The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas…" (Matthew 12:41)

Anonymous · Answer

Still clinging to that book of yours eh? Well, can't sue Harold, those who followed him did it voluntarily.

♥~Amari~♥ · Answer

Nope. They shouldn't have been as stupid and gullible. Lesson well learned to everyone who actually believed that crap in my opinion.

cork · Answer

P. T. Barnum  "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute"

I DON'T GET ANY OF MY TAX MONEY BACK...
UNCLE SAM RAPTURES MY DOUGH EVERY YEAR.

Anonymous · Answer

As far as I see he spent it all.  The money doesn't exist anymore.

Anonymous · Answer

Oh, the irony.....

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