Welp. Been nice knowing ya. Today is suppose to be the end of it all.(update)

[THE_DEVIL]

Christian group awaits fiery Wednesday apocalypse
For at least two years, the Philadelphia-based online church eBible Fellowship has preached that Wednesday will see the biblically-foretold end times, when the non-faithful perish in a final flaming rapture.

An eBible YouTube video posted in March said, "There is biblical evidence that the annihilation of every transgressor will occur on October 7, 2015."

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In an interview with the Guardian, eBible leader Chris McCann reiterated that claim and said he was preparing for the very special day. The Earth, he said citing biblical verse, will end in fire.

 

[thewop]

I feel sorry for people who fall into believing these things. I wonder what happens to most of them once this day comes and goes and nothing happens. I'd assume the leader of the group has found a way to get rich off of it and live happily ever after.

 

[hawkeye54545]

And I went to work today like a damn idiot.

 

[SCHawkFan]

Before or after the Cub game?

 

[22*43*51]

Well the Cub fans think this year is special too.

 

[iCRUNCH]

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

I feel sorry for people who fall into believing these things. I wonder what happens to most of them once this day comes and goes and nothing happens. I'd assume the leader of the group has found a way to get rich off of it and live happily ever after.

I don't know about leaders getting rich but I think they did a study once where they showed that usually the leader predicts another day for the end of the world and the people that invested the most in the previous end of the world start to believe this new date while the people who invested the least just sort of leave the group.

Sort of a sunk cost thing goes on . . . the people who invested the most can't believe that they put all that time, money and effort in for nothing so they believe that their leader slightly miscalculated or whatever and he's totally got the new day down.

It can go on like this for a while.

 

[SailorJerryHawk]

You're going to Hell,Devil.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I feel sorry for people who fall into believing these things. I wonder what happens to most of them once this day comes and goes and nothing happens. I'd assume the leader of the group has found a way to get rich off of it and live happily ever after.

"I thought the world was going to end yesterday. Since it didn't I now reject the Book of Revelation and have become an atheist." Words never spoken.

Usually they just think they calculated wrong and come up with a new date. Sometimes they think their prayers were so amazing that God relented. Occasionally they point to some tragedy (probably a big fire, in this case) as being proof that it has started, and confess to taking the time line a little too narrowly.

That's my guess. But I could be wrong. Still, how many stories have you ever heard of someone snapping out of their delusion entirely?

 

[Fan In Black]

I'll see you in Hell.

 

[lucas80]

Figures. I took today off to go buy a new SUV with Mrs. Lucas. I'll spend my last day signing papers at a car dealership.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Figures. I took today off to go buy a new SUV with Mrs. Lucas. I'll spend my last day signing papers at a car dealership.

Yeah, but look at it this way: you can get whatever you want - you won't ever have to make the payments.

 

[naturalmwa]

You're going to Hell,Devil.

Take me with you.

 

[HotelAlphaWilcoKilo]

So that's where sgt.knock went

 

[ping72]

Figures. I took today off to go buy a new SUV with Mrs. Lucas. I'll spend my last day signing papers at a car dealership.

You know when you get to heaven you can take all of your earthly treasures, right? Might as well be cruising past ancient apostles and prophets on their donkeys while you have a sweet set of wheels.

 

[22*43*51]

Was there a time given for this apocalypse?

I only ask because I have a 2 o'clock meeting and if it's my last, I would like to attend neked.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Was there a time given for this apocalypse?

I only ask because I have a 2 o'clock meeting and if it's my last, I would like to attend neked.

Just do it.

If they fire you just say you were exercising religious freedom by making it easier for God to rapture you up.

 

[theIowaHawk]

Christian group awaits fiery Wednesday apocalypse
For at least two years, the Philadelphia-based online church eBible Fellowship has preached that Wednesday will see the biblically-foretold end times, when the non-faithful perish in a final flaming rapture.

An eBible YouTube video posted in March said, "There is biblical evidence that the annihilation of every transgressor will occur on October 7, 2015."

RELATED: Russians convince Americans the world will end next month

In an interview with the Guardian, eBible leader Chris McCann reiterated that claim and said he was preparing for the very special day. The Earth, he said citing biblical verse, will end in fire.

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Cubs in the playoffs?

 

[THE_DEVIL]

I' m still here. Anyone seen anything yet?

 

[naturalmwa]

Should I start dinner?

 

[THE_DEVIL]

Christian cult that predicted Wednesday’s world annihilation will study Bible for revised deadline
The leader of a Christian group who claimed that the world would end on Wednesday has admitted his prediction was “incorrect”.

Chris McCann, head of the eBible fellowship, warned that the planet would be destroyed “with fire” on 7 October. This did not happen.

“Since it is now 8 October it is now obvious that we were incorrect regarding the world’s ending on the 7th,” McCann said.

McCann originally told the Guardian that by Thursday the world would be “gone forever: annihilated”. McCann based his claim on an earlier prediction by Christian radio host Harold Camping , who said the world would end on 21 May 2011. Camping’s forecast also turned out to be incorrect.

As the clock struck 12 in timezones around the globe, turning Wednesday into Thursday, it became apparent that the planet had not been destroyed. McCann, who is based in Philadelphia, said on Thursday it was “surprising” that the world was still in existence.

Prior to 7 October he said there was a “strong likelihood” the world would be wrought asunder, but did admit there was a chance he could be incorrect.

“Well, a strong likelihood means that something was pretty well set to happen (in this case according to the biblical evidence),” he said. “Yet there is a possibility it may not happen.

“So it was surprising that it did not occur. But the comforting thing is that God’s will is always perfect.”

In 2011 Camping used his radio station, Family Radio, to notify people that the world would end. When that turned out to be incorrect, he revised his prediction to October 2011. That also turned out to be incorrect, and Camping retired from public life soon after. He died in 2013, at the age of 93.

The eBible Fellowship believed that Camping’s 21 May 2011 was actually “judgment day”. The fellowship thus claimed the world would end 1,600 days from that date: hence 7 October 2015.

McCann said “one of the big pieces of evidence” in his prediction was that 7 October 2015 was the last day of the feast of the tabernacles, or sukot. (Most online sources say sukot ended on 5 October.)

“Once the last day of the feast passed it soon became apparent that we were incorrect about the world’s conclusion on [7 October],” McCann said.

While the world did not end, McCann said on Thursday it would be obliterated “soon”.

“I also know that God knows exactly when that end will come,” he said. “So we’ll keep studying the Bible to see what we can learn.”

guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media 2015

 

[IACub]

Cool. Now I don't regret eating that cupcake.