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May 21 Judgment Day and Allegations of Donation Scam: Rapture Victims May Sue Harold Camping

The suggestion is being raised on some forums on the internet that those who have donated money to Harold Camping to help "sound the trumpet of Judgment" should on Monday morning call their lawyers and sue Harold Camping, his Family Radio ministry and associates/affiliates to recover their donations.

According to minstrywatch.com, the net assets of Harold Camping's Family Radio is estimated at over $120 million, a massive asset value accumulated exclusively from listener-supported funding.There have been allegations of donations scam involvment in Harold Campings Judgment Day campaign when Chris McCann's ebible fellowship website and Bible Ministries International joined Harold Camping's Family Radio and began promoting themselves with the subtle suggestion that the three ministries were the only true end-time ministries to which believers who want to be Raptured may donate to.

Even though ebiblefellowship.com claimed, a few days to May 21, 2011, that  it had stopped receiving donations due to "shortness of time until May 21, 2011," skeptics have noted that ebible fellowship went out of its way to recommend Harold Camping's Family Radio as the specially anointed ministry for believers to continue donating to, claiming that ebible fellowship has no affiliation with Family Radio.

Harold Camping had severed all relationship with the organized church claiming that the "Church Age" had ended and, thus, according to skeptics, set the stage for a situation in which scam artists and other opportunists may see a chance to rake in quick profits for themselves by associating with his ministry.

Close watchers of religious cult movements such as Harold Camping's believe that suing Harold Camping and his associates for recovery of donations should set a precedent that will discourage future Judgment Day date-setters whose prophecies disrupt the lives of millions and cause lifelong trauma to their followers.





God Created the Heaven and the Earth: True or False?

Perhaps there's a more "spiritually scientific" way to interpret the seminal assertion of Genesis 1:1, one that honours the sacred nature of the texts while utilising science's contribution to our current knowledge. Could this embrace the polarisation and comfort the hurt generated by the antagonists in science and religion? If the most intelligent, wise and sensitive communities on earth cannot find peace, who can?

I believe the Bible tells us there is an ultimate truth within us all. And science and religion are just two of many ways the human soul evolves in consciousness to know this truth. Perhaps we are meant to "struggle with God" (not against him) as our partner in strengthening and testing our spirit. I know I've been struggling for decades to find the inner connection with God that was obscured back in the day of Adam and Eve. As I open myself to new and deeper experiences, I am finding deeper meaning in the ancient scripture.

So is it a war of the word views we are actually dealing with?

Genesis 1:1 states, " In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." The key word here is "created." What does "created" really mean? And what does "the heaven and the earth" really mean? What was it that God is supposed to have "created"?





Building a Replica of Noah's Ark

Man builds working replica of Noah's Ark (exact scale given in Bible) in Schagen, Netherlands

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The massive central door in the side of Noah's Ark was opened to the first crowd of curious townsfolk to behold the wonder. Of course, it's only a replica of the biblical Ark , built by Dutch creationist, Johan Huibers, as a testament to his faith in the literal truth of the Bible.
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The ark is 150 cubits long, 30 cubits high and 20 cubits wide. That's two-thirds the length of a football field and as high as a three-story house.

Life-size models of giraffes, elephants, lions, crocodiles, zebras, bison and other animals greet visitors as they arrive in the main hold.

A contractor by trade, Huibers built the ark of cedar and pine. Biblical Scholars debate exactly what the wood used by Noah would have been.

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Huibers did the work mostly with his own hands, using modern tools and with occasional help from his son, Roy. Construction began in May 2005. On the uncovered top - deck not quite ready in time for the opening - will come a petting zoo, with baby lambs, chickens, goats and one camel.
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Visitors on the first day were stunned. 'It's past comprehension,' said Mary Louise Starosciak, who happened to be bicycling by with her husband while on vacation when they saw the ark looming over the local landscape.
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'I knew the story of Noah, but I had no idea the boat would have been so big ' There is enough space near the keel for a 50-seat film theater where kids can watch a video that tells the story of Noah and his ark. Huibers, a Christian man, said he hopes the project will renew interest in Christianity in the Netherlands , where church-going has fallen dramatically in the past 50 years.
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Now that I am old and Gray...give me the time to tell This new generation (and their children too) About all your mighty miracles.  Psalm 71:18