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Dangerous Airwaves: Harold Camping Refuted and Christ's Church Defended
Is God through with the church? Has Jesus Christ done away with the organized structure He created 2000 years ago and replaced it with unstructured "fellowships" that eliminate the need for elders and deacons? YES! That is ... if you are to believe Harold Camping, best known as the "voice" of Family Radio, a worldwide gospel ministry. Many trusting Christians have come to take this man's biblical interpretations as virtually the very Word of God itself! James R. White, perhaps the most well-known Protestant apologist of our time, takes on Mr. Camping and his heretical biblical interpretations to show that, contrary to Mr. Camping's teachings, the Lord Jesus Christ loves His church - and that the church will endure on earth until that blessed day when He comes!
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First published August 22, 2007
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James R. White
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James White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics. He has authored or contributed to more than twenty four books, including The King James Only Controversy, The Forgotten Trinity, The Potter’s Freedom, and The God Who Justifies. He is an accomplished debater, having engaged in more than one-hundred forty moderated, public debates around the world with leading proponents of Roman Catholicism, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mormonism, as well as critics such as Bart Ehrman, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, and John Shelby Spong. In recent years James has debated in such locations as Sydney, Australia, as well as mosques in Toronto, London, and South Africa. He is an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church, has been married to Kelli for more than thirty two years, and has two children, and one grandchild, Clementine.
James White is the director of Alpha and Omega Ministries, a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. He is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics. He has authored or contributed to more than twenty four books, including The King James Only Controversy, The Forgotten Trinity, The Potter’s Freedom, and The God Who Justifies. He is an accomplished debater, having engaged in more than one-hundred forty moderated, public debates around the world with leading proponents of Roman Catholicism, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mormonism, as well as critics such as Bart Ehrman, John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg, and John Shelby Spong. In recent years James has debated in such locations as Sydney, Australia, as well as mosques in Toronto, London, and South Africa. He is an elder of the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church, has been married to Kelli for more than thirty two years, and has two children, and one grandchild, Clementine.
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September 7, 2024
A CRITIQUE OF HAROLD CAMPING'S "LEAVE THE CHURCHES" TEACHING
James R. White is a justly famed Christian (Reformed Baptist) apologist, as well as the Director of "Alpha and Omega Ministries" in Arizona. He has written many other books, such as 'The Potter's Freedom,' 'Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views,' 'Answers to Catholic Claims,' Is the Mormon My Brother?,' etc.'
This 2002 book is a critique of the books and claims of Harold Camping (b. 1921), the former President of Family Radio and former host of its "Open Forum" show (he suffered a stroke in June 2011), and author of books such as 1994?, The End of the Church Age and After, Wheat and Tares, etc., who infamously predicted the end of the world in 1994 and 2011, and said that Christians should leave their churches; the failure of these predictions led to mass defections (and loss of revenue) to Family Stations.
White notes in the Introduction, "I began visiting Long Island to engage in the 'Great Debate' series. It did not take long to start hearing about the impact Harold Camping's prediction of 1994 had had on the local churches... But, it was now post-1994, and surely everyone could see that he had been discredited... surely anyone would now realize that he was a false teacher. He had not repented of his 1994 prediction, and yet there were still people who were intent on listening to him... Camping was now teaching that the 'church age has ended... And so I undertook to provide an apologetic, yet pastoral, response to Camping's attack upon Christ's Body, the Church." (Pg. 15-16)
He points out that, according to Camping, "no one is being saved in the formal churches any longer. Camping emphasizes this quite heavily. He insists that multitudes are still being saved, but they are hearing the gospel not from the churches, but from Family Radio, his own ministry. All supposed conversions within the church in this day and age are false: no person can possibly be saved where the Holy Spirit is no longer active. This claim is so outrageous it needs to be repeated and considered in-depth." (Pg. 41)
He observes, "Just as Mr. Camping often talks about how God is blessing 'ministries like Family Radio' without ever telling us about ANY other such 'ministry,' he likewise does not get specific as to which churches and denominations he is referring to. It seems clear, however, that ... he is referring to conservative, Bible-believing, mainly Reformed denominations and congregations in these comments..." (Pg. 97)
He concludes, "Harold Camping cannot demonstrate that his teachings actually carry the authority of the Bible, for as soon as he says, 'this is a picture of this,' he has left the inspired text behind and is now simply giving you the imaginations of his own heart. Why should you believe that he, and he alone, has 'the' insight? Has God's Spirit worked so poorly that he cannot lead other Christian leaders, men who know far more about Scripture than Camping does, to the same conclusions?... The day will come when you will realize that you must face the fact that just as many bought into Camping's 1994 debacle, so too this new teaching was a flash-in-the-pan teaching that had no basis, no future, no divine authority... turn off that radio and quit following the counsel of a mere man!" (Pg. 137-138)
Other critiques of Camping are 'Shockwave 2000!: The Harold Camping 1994 Debacle' and 'Should We Leave Our Churches?: A Biblical Response to Harold Camping.'
James R. White is a justly famed Christian (Reformed Baptist) apologist, as well as the Director of "Alpha and Omega Ministries" in Arizona. He has written many other books, such as 'The Potter's Freedom,' 'Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views,' 'Answers to Catholic Claims,' Is the Mormon My Brother?,' etc.'
This 2002 book is a critique of the books and claims of Harold Camping (b. 1921), the former President of Family Radio and former host of its "Open Forum" show (he suffered a stroke in June 2011), and author of books such as 1994?, The End of the Church Age and After, Wheat and Tares, etc., who infamously predicted the end of the world in 1994 and 2011, and said that Christians should leave their churches; the failure of these predictions led to mass defections (and loss of revenue) to Family Stations.
White notes in the Introduction, "I began visiting Long Island to engage in the 'Great Debate' series. It did not take long to start hearing about the impact Harold Camping's prediction of 1994 had had on the local churches... But, it was now post-1994, and surely everyone could see that he had been discredited... surely anyone would now realize that he was a false teacher. He had not repented of his 1994 prediction, and yet there were still people who were intent on listening to him... Camping was now teaching that the 'church age has ended... And so I undertook to provide an apologetic, yet pastoral, response to Camping's attack upon Christ's Body, the Church." (Pg. 15-16)
He points out that, according to Camping, "no one is being saved in the formal churches any longer. Camping emphasizes this quite heavily. He insists that multitudes are still being saved, but they are hearing the gospel not from the churches, but from Family Radio, his own ministry. All supposed conversions within the church in this day and age are false: no person can possibly be saved where the Holy Spirit is no longer active. This claim is so outrageous it needs to be repeated and considered in-depth." (Pg. 41)
He observes, "Just as Mr. Camping often talks about how God is blessing 'ministries like Family Radio' without ever telling us about ANY other such 'ministry,' he likewise does not get specific as to which churches and denominations he is referring to. It seems clear, however, that ... he is referring to conservative, Bible-believing, mainly Reformed denominations and congregations in these comments..." (Pg. 97)
He concludes, "Harold Camping cannot demonstrate that his teachings actually carry the authority of the Bible, for as soon as he says, 'this is a picture of this,' he has left the inspired text behind and is now simply giving you the imaginations of his own heart. Why should you believe that he, and he alone, has 'the' insight? Has God's Spirit worked so poorly that he cannot lead other Christian leaders, men who know far more about Scripture than Camping does, to the same conclusions?... The day will come when you will realize that you must face the fact that just as many bought into Camping's 1994 debacle, so too this new teaching was a flash-in-the-pan teaching that had no basis, no future, no divine authority... turn off that radio and quit following the counsel of a mere man!" (Pg. 137-138)
Other critiques of Camping are 'Shockwave 2000!: The Harold Camping 1994 Debacle' and 'Should We Leave Our Churches?: A Biblical Response to Harold Camping.'
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