Time Has an End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C. - 2011 A.D. [Paperback]

Harold Camping (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 502 pages
• Publisher: Vantage Press; 1St Edition edition (March 25, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0533151694
• ISBN-13: 978-0533151691
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,119,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Deceived by Thiele, December 22, 2006

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Geoff Unwin - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Has an End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C. - 2011 A.D. (Paperback)

Anyone who has studied Biblical chronology in depth will understand that all Biblical calendars must make contact with known secular history at some point, otherwise they cannot be assigned BC or AD dates. In Camping's case, he relied on Edwin Thiele's 931 BC date for the Schism, which itself was fixed by the Assyrian Eponym List. This list is not an infallible document, and the year of 931 for the Schism is rejected by many Biblicists, who favour Ussher's date of 975 (or dates close by) for the Schism. The bottom line is that 2011 is not a Biblically derived date. It is essentially a date worked out by projecting time-spans from a calendar that has been dated through the Assyrian Eponym List. Therefore, it is date of men, not of God. Reader beware.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars poorly done, hard to read, unconvincing nonsense, ..., May 20, 2011

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whomper "speedball" (virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Time Has an End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C. - 2011 A.D. (Paperback)

dateline worldwide friday 20 may 2011
(and we will ***all*** be here
on the 22nd may 2011 too)
[and most of us , barring a few natural deaths, will still be here on 22 October 2011]

read his free copy online
not worth spending money on this baloney

his logic is faulty
his "proofs" unconvincing
the formatting/style off-putting

sample his stuff from this book free online and see how badly it is written for yourself

i wonder what "correction" he will make next week to explain why he was wrong about this upcoming saturday

there is no shortage of people who have magically gained some special insight that the rest of us lack and have predicted the end of the world many times before -- and they were all wrong. it will happen many times in the future too.

oh wait, they are very very smart
and everybody else is very very stupid

next up - the mayan prediction for 2012

unless some new crackpot slips in with another end of world scenario first

either you believe the Bible is the Word of God and believe what it says when it says that NObody whether man , angel, or even Christ Jesus the Son knows the time and date of the end but only God the Father knows it.

Can anyone who says they know the date of the end really believe the Bible???

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Harry Camping is Completely Clueless, May 26, 2011

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C. Lambeth (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Time Has an End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 B.C. - 2011 A.D. (Paperback)

Recently (before May 21, 2011) I tried to engage with proponents of Harold Camping's teachings, interpretive approach to the Bible and his prophecies. That website can be found at departout dot com, but I learned that H. Camping's leadership usually invites two kinds of people:

1) Those who fail to make any distinction between what the Bible actually SAYS and what humans say that it MEANS. Because of this, these same people have bought so heavily into H. Camping's teachings that they are incapable of seeing any other interpretation as even remotely plausible. Even when they are faced with the unequivocal proof that Harry Camping is either deceived or a deceiver, they are unable to divest themselves from his instructions and interpretations, and anyone who leaves or questions is quickly branded as an apostate, messenger from Satan or worse.

2) The other type of person, like me, is drawn to engage with Harold Camping and his faithful flock because we perceive the danger of such cult-like behavior and want to help these credulous but mislead believers find Christ in the midst of all the garbage they have been spoon-fed about Jesus and the Bible. My endeavor to help these people is drawing to an end however, for MOST of them have proved to be completely incapable of thinking for themselves or even considering the remote possibility that they don't have all the answers or that the Bible was never intended to function as some cosmic countdown/ doomsday clock.

What started out as my sympathy for most of these people has unfortunately turned to disgust. Not all, but most of them have proved not only to be resistant to rational discourse, but also hateful and willingly or purposefully ignorant. Family Radio/Harold Camping is truly the blind leading the blind.

Since H. Camping's most recent failed prophecy regarding Armageddon that was supposed to initiate on May 21, 2011, he has not even skipped a beat and made yet another adjustment proclaiming that October 21, 2011 will now be when the universe melts etc. At one time, I would have offered that Harold Camping's followers would be free of him in the aftermath of his false prophecies, but I have learned that this is not the case. If I might make a prediction of my own, come October 22, 2011, these Bible calendar countdown people will make MORE excuses and CONTINUE to play their fools' game and CONTINUE to pervert the Bible and make it dance to their own warped tune.



Nevertheless, I would like to offer a more focused review of this particular book by offering a response to a Harold Camping follower who asked me to offer an opinion, not on H. Camping's mathematical formula (which is laughable) but on the SOURCE material for that formula (the book itself, that explains the rationale).

So here it is: I have indeed read various sections of Harold Camping's book and found them all to be significantly lacking in terms of biblical scholarship, interpretation, sound argumentation and even basic English conventions. I am amazed that this man has any sort of following whatsoever, much less that otherwise seemingly intelligent people are willing to equate his misguided ramblings with the very words of God himself. If anyone honestly believes that this book makes a "reasonable" case of explaining H. Camping's convoluted argument, then I am not sure what else we have to talk about. In short, the book is a complete mess.

The "source" predicting 5/21/11 as the beginning of the end has nothing to do with God or the Bible. Rather, it is a delusion of a disoriented man, Harry Camping, whose formula is an episodic "just-so" story that starts out with the very number its strained mathematical chicanery was specifically designed to fabricate. There is nothing objective about it. It is pure fiction and possibly little more than the nefarious invention of a seemingly nice but ultimately enfeebled and confused man.

Can anyone tell me of even one other person who has arrived at the same formula and date as Harold Camping INDEPENDENTLY from Harold Camping? Have we considered all of the other misguided religions, sects and cults who based their entire worldview on the writings/ teachings of a single person? Take your pick: Siddhartha Gautama, Muhammed, Joseph Smith, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Charles Manson. The trajectory and value of some of these men was quite different, but what unites them is that they started movements that were grounded in little more than their own inspiration and creativity (at best) and delusional and demonic influence (at worst). In that sense, Harold Camping is no different than any of these fellows.

In a nutshell, that is my problem with the so-called "source" material.

-CL