Christian billboards proclaim Jesus will return May 21, 2011

A group of Christians who operate the site www.wecanknow.com are placing billboards up in North Carolina, Nebraska, the Atlanta area and also in other locations around the United States. They should have 50 billboards up in total. The message on the billboards is announcing the exact date of when Jesus will return to planet Earth. They read, "He is coming again on May 21, 2011."

Most Christians have learned not to give a specific date for the return of Jesus. So far, all the Christians and "revealed" religionists who have given a date have been proven wrong. Some had so many faithful followers that when the date came and went they were able to start their own Christian denomination, such as the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Dr. Thomas B. Slater, professor of New Testament studies at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology is opposed to the billboards and to Christians saying they know when Jesus will return. He said, "This will make other people look at them and say, 'All Christians are foolish like them.'" Slater also believes that Jesus taught his followers to focus on the here and now and not on the end of the world. As an example he gives the story in Matthew 25:31-46 which has Jesus saying at the end of the world God will divide the world into two groups; those who are good and who helped their fellow people, which Jesus allegedly classified as sheep and the other group consisting of people who were evil and did not help others and who Jesus classified, as the story goes, as goats. The fact that this story is based on what Jesus thought would happen at the end of the world contradicts Slater's belief that Jesus taught his followers to focus not on the end of the world but on the here and now. According to this Bible story Jesus was encouraging/threatening his followers to be good and to help their fellow human beings or they would be punished and go to burn in "everlasting fire" while those who were good would go to heaven. Not only does this Bible story put the emphasis on the end of the world and judgment day, it also contradicts the belief held by millions of Christians that salvation comes through faith alone. Christianity is very ambiguous and contradictory on its primary promise and reason for being; eternal salvation of the individual. It's interesting to read the Deist Thomas Paine's ideas on this Bible story of dividing people as a shepherd would divide goats from sheep. Paine points out the error in thinking the world is so black and white that it can be morally divided as the Bible claims.

The Christians at wecanknow.com who are putting up the billboards announcing that Jesus will return on May 21, 2011 believe they are in line with the Bible. They believe in the hideous ungodly story of Noah and the flood in which it is claimed that God was so upset with people he lost his temper and killed everyone on planet Earth, including babies and unborn babies who could not have done anything wrong, by drowning them all. The only exception, according to this Bible myth, was 600 year old Noah and family along with two of every kind of animal from all parts of the Earth who magically entered the ark. The wecanknow.com Christians believe since Noah allegedly knew when God was going to slaughter everyone on Earth in his day that Christians in our day can also know when Jesus is coming back and when the judgment day will be.

When May 21, 2011 comes and goes the Christians at wecanknow.com shouldn't feel too bad. After all, their savior Jesus was wrong himself about his own return to Earth. In Matthew 16:28 we see he promised those he was then talking to that they would live to see his return. That verse claims that Jesus said to those around him at that time and place, "Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."

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