The votes are all in, and by a very narrow margin (3 votes), “bunkagesis” has been selected as the term of choice for recognizing egregiously awful examples of handling Scripture. I can’t think of a better way to say “please put the Bible down and back slowly away” or “you should be ashamed of fleecing people with God’s word” than this honor. Since Harold himself was the impetus behind the award, his prophecy is of course eligible as a nominee for 2011. And since we’re already in June, I’ve made an executive decision to give Harold some competition from items I blogged about over at PaleoBabble in 2009 and 2010. I really can’t predict who will still be standing when the dust clears after a shootout between Camping and these bunkagetical gems:
1. The 666 John wrote about in Revelation were Arabic letters pointing to the Muslim Antichrist
2. Jesus gave us the name of the Antichrist in Luke 11: Barack Obama.
3. The aleph and the taw. (Warning: if you know any Hebrew, this will be acutely painful).
Who knows what the rest of 2011 will hold? Nominations will end on October 22, 2011 — the day after Camping is wrong again.
I vote for number 2. That was fantastic exegesis. What insight! What depth! Truly profound scholarship.
Youtube pulled the video for #3 too many copyright infringements, they also deleted the account ! must have been pretty bad bunkagisim. I’m intregued though…give a nutshell of the view…if you would be so kind.
The aleph and the taw – first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet – are untranslated because they so mystified scholars. But we know who the first and last is — Jesus! And so, since the two letter word aleph-taw is in Genesis 1:1 (untranslated, mind you), Jesus is in Genesis 1:1.
The reason aleph-taw is untranslated is because it’s a Hebrew particle that marks the direct object of a clause. Other Semitic languages have the same marker. The guy knows ZERO about Hebrew. I’d love to ask him how the pagan Phoenicians had Jesus in their inscriptions.
Remarkable rebuttal on the “Barack Obama is the antichrist” claim. Good read.
World Net Daily actually published it (I have a friend who’s a friend of their CEO, so I think he felt obligated) — but they buried it on their website and didn’t put a link to it from the original piece. I learned a lot about WND that day.
I want to vote for number 3.
But since I shared number two with so many I’d have to vote #2.
Alas, Camping being wrong twice in one year is more than enough for an automatic win of a bunkagesis award.
Wow, #2 really IS painful to watch. He knows just enough Greek and Hebrew to be dangerous. The brother needs to go to some Bible college.