1994? [Paperback]

Harold Camping (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Vantage Pr (September 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0533103681
• ISBN-13: 978-0533103683
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,290,512 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Miscountdown to Armageddon, October 25, 2007

By 

Labarum (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: 1994? (Paperback)

Like Edgar Whisenant's "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988", Harold Camping's "1994?" is another book that heralded what would become a failed prediction of the end of days. Unlike other endtimes datesetters, Camping's scenario does not follow the usual dispensationalist line. In fact, Camping's system is so idiosyncratic as to not qualify as following any standard eschatological system. To be quite honest, it is hard to even tell if it is self-consistent since little of it makes any sense at all.

Camping spends most of the book taking passages out of context and then tying them to numerical calculations he devises but never justifies. He manipulates numbers in such a haphazard way as to closely resemble a crooked accountant who is fudging financial data to keep his superiors from discovering his malfeasance. The hope is that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Camping certainly pulled it off to a certain extent as his book was a sensation - right up to the point it was disproven.

Since the failure, Camping has written books claiming the Church era is over (didn't Christ say it would not end until his return?) and more recently that the end will come in 2011. Apparently the only thing Camping has learned in the intervening time is to put the end date further off. Thankfully, there are a lot fewer people listening this time around.

45 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Off-base book by a sincere but misguided man., July 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: 1994? (Paperback)

Harold Camping's odd work is heavily influenced by numerology, a psuedo-science influenced by ancient mysticism that trys to find hidden truth behind literal meanings of the Bible.

The book is filled with strange assumptions based upon allegory mixed with ignorance. Camping's logic is so inconsistent that it should be required reading for students taking NUTCASE 101 .

The Bible stands true without Mr. Camping's distortions of the greatest book ever written.

39 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Open Forum..., March 22, 2002

By 

"fja0568" (Tallahassee, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1994? (Paperback)

I listened to Open Forum during my college years from about 1992-1994, during which time I began to buy into some of the bible teachings of Mr. Camping. But, I became confused after he started asserting that he knew when Christ would return, since by this time I thought that he did have a deeper understanding of the Bible than most. To me, it was quite clear that from Matthew 24:36 - But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. So, I bought the book anyway to see what was said. So, people are willing to believe Mr. Camping's complex manipulations of the scripture and ignore the clear teaching of Matthew. I understand Christians' desire for the return of Christ, but that has been the case for over 2000 years. Now I read that Mr. Camping is asking people to leave their churches. Poor sools that follow after this deceived man. Just live your life as Christ lived His and submit yourself to his Church.