My family (what few of them still attend church) have attended PCUSA since the late 1970s when, even then, there was talk of ordaining homosexual clergy by a few of their members. A few local Lutheran churches actually had homosexual pastors (we're talking San Francisco Bay Area/Peninsula region) as early as 1977, where some of my Christian high school classmates attended.

Barry from KY wrote:
Anything to gain back control and get back into power!!!

Jim's "Too Close to Kooky" article, though informative, read like a hit-piece. Especially that last line about Ron Paul being more qualified to lead The Branch Dividians than the Free World. That's pretty low.

CV wrote:
Don't understand your question!
Do we stop sinning? Do we stop seeking after God?
Our changed nature from carnal to spiritual IS A STATE OF BEING, not a one time confession and on to being what we were before. We CONTINUALLY seek after God.
Did I answer your question?

Mike wrote:
His proclamation won't help his re-election.

In the early 1990s I went to a comedy club where the comedian was making fun of homosexual people. Patrons of my generation were laughing but there were a few Gen-X folk there who were not laughing but instead were angrilly heckling the guy. It was an amazing contrast of generational attitudes which at that time was just beginning to manifest itself in our culture.

Andrew wrote:
Unfortunately, a president will say or do anything to be re-elected.

Mike wrote:
More likely he allegorizes and fuzzifies Scripture, in order to contradict what it says, and come up with dates. Since he has dated judgment to be May 21, 2011, and destruction to be October 21, 2011, he does not hold to literal interpretation, nor believe in the millenial kingdom, which would make him Amill(not millenial) by definition.

Camping started out as an Amill, but then adopted some dispensational doctrines around the year 2000 (separate rapture and judgement day), but he also accepted and started teaching anihilation, which is not dispensational.

Then again, engineers like him are trained to deal with reality and solutions to real problems by using mathematical modeling and numbers.

FG wrote:
I was saved under Camping's ministry many years ago and it is with a broken heart that I watch this "fool's errand" turn to its inevitable ruin. We should be praying that God will give him the grace and moral courage to repent and recant his teachings regarding doomsday predictions publicly, and that he would open his eyes to his faulty hermeneutics.

Years earlier I was also effectively witnessed to by my brother who is now totally apostate.

When I think of Camping and my brother, I'm reminded of the nameless prophet in the 13th chapter of I Kings.