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Adam When? A Biblical Solution to the Timetable of Mankind

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The basis of this book is NOT the Holy Bible, although its author disputes that. The author is Harold Camping, president and general manager of Family Radio (also known as Family Stations).

The basis of this book is secular. The book hinges on what the author describes as "the timeline" or the "biblical" calendar of history.

If you use the Bible only, then you can NOT validate the "biblical" calendar of history. Some people say "if you start with 931 B.C....", but how would you know that year if you used the Bible only? You wouldn't. Yet it is so natural to think this way.

The Gregorian calendar is not biblical; no man-made calendar is biblical. If you add the Gregorian calendar to the Bible (even just a little bit...just one tiny date), then you are in violation of Revelation 22:18. It really is that simple. There are no B.C. or A.D. dates in the Bible; nor can you arrive at such dates without ADDING something to the Bible.

We are seeing one of the dangers of adding to God's Word. How can anyone deny the many proofs and coincidences? What really happens when we add to God's Word...even when we think it is justified? Perhaps "miraculous" things happen...things that would lead us to believe that what we have done is the right thing.

"Adam When?" was preceded by "The Biblical Calendar of History" and "The Perfect Harmony of the Numbers of the Hebrew Kings", and several other books written by Harold Camping. The foundation of "Adam When?" includes the books mentioned above. If you read these books, you will notice that many non-biblical sources were used to write them.

This author writes books incrementally, and then he writes later books that are based on his prior books. The result is a cascade of lies and deception that is not fully realized by the reader until his final books. One of his later books is called Time Has an End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C. - 2011 A.D.. In this book, the author aggressively and emphatically taught that Christ would return and Judgment Day would begin on May 21, 2011; and that the end of the world would occur on October 21, 2011. He continued to teach these lies even after May 21, 2011.

Do not get trapped into reading this author's earlier books. He uses his earlier books as his basis for later books like "Time Has An End". His logic and reasoning and analytical approach to studying the Bible has led many people astray.

When we add to God's Word, terrible things happen.
When we take away from God's Word, terrible things happen.

When we mix the understanding of mankind with the Holy Scriptures, terrible things happen.

Some people elevate the "biblical" calendar of history to the same level as the Bible itself. The calendar has become their idol. Without the calendar, the Bible loses much of its meaning. Almost every teaching from these folks features a date as its focus. It seems that without a date, a "study" is incomplete.

"Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry." (1 Corinthians 10:14)

"Thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!" (Ezekiel 13:3)

"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ." (2 Corinthians 11:3)

"That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;" (Ephesians 4:14)

An extremly interesting book. Camping has done an excellent job of showing the correlation between the Bible and secular history. Many Bible passages are shown to give us a definate pathway to the beginning of time, a task no one else has seemed to do accurately. Most Christians have followed Archbishop Usher's timeline, but his dates just don't make sense. Camping shows us a fresh and very Biblical way to determining the timeline of our existance. A must read for anyone interested in history, creation and even evolution.

The publisher, Family Radio, offers this book FREE to anyone who requests it (Family Radio will also pay the postage). One of the reasons why listeners of Family Radio donate money to Family Radio is so that they can offer free literature to people who wish to read/study their literature. Family Radio's website has an online request form to request free literature. Also, it is available on Family Radio's website in a free PDF file.

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I obtained this book years ago, and enjoyed it very much. I have studied Biblical chronology closely. I would say the most important chapters are chapter 3, 4, and 5, where the author discovers that the Bible kept a patriarchal calendar where a distant offspring of a patriarch was born in the year of the death of that patriarch, thus most of the time periods of Genesis chapter 5 and 10 or 11 were determined by life spans of patriarchs. Thus Mr. Camping arrives at an age of the earth of about 13,000 years. Other areas are explored in this book such as the time of the Judges, time of Jacob in Haran, times of Levitical patriarchs in Egypt in the 430 year period. Camping brings all of the Biblical details together to try to prove his understanding of the Biblical calendar. The book covers the number of years from creation to the division of the Kingdom in the days of Solomon. Camping has also written a very small book on the period of the Kings following Solomon's reign, and that book I would highly recommend since he has done better work on that period than any other scholar I believe, the work is carefully done.