More demistification of the idiocracy of "Judgement Day"

As you can see in my former blog post, I believe this Judgement Day nut is just that - a guy trying to elicit self-righteousness and increase church membership through hysteria.

According to him, this Judgement Day comes right from the Old Testament itself - the day and time for May 21 he calculated by choosing some items from the Old Testament.

If the Old Testament does in fact come to this conclusion, other facts from the book shouldn't be selectively ignored. According to most people the Old Testament was written between 1400 and 400 BC. At that time, let's look at the world, as it was, that is being referred to:

1) In 1000 BC, there were 50 million people total as opposed to the 6,852,472,823 living in the world today. That's a difference of more than 6.8 billion people.

2) The Old Testament is accepted as being written in the following locations: Israel, Judah and Babylon. For argument's sake, let's say these places were the same size in terms of total area in 1400 B.C. that they are today: Israel equal to 8,019 square miles; ignoring Judah as it no longer exists today; and Babylon which is now part of Iraq (Babil Province) and is 2,163.3 square miles in size. Between modern day Israel and Babil Province, currently we can account for 10,000 square miles.

The present day land area of planet earth (or the WORLD) is 57,510,000 square miles or approximately 57,500,000 square miles larger than area in which the Old Testament was written.

So what does all this mean. Well, let's see...a good majority of the physical land and water of the Earth was both undiscovered and uninhabited in 1400 B.C. So the earth, according to the writers of the Old Testament was much smaller in land size and population.

Could the writers of the Old Testament determine that a world in which they never knew existed, as it currently is today, was going to come to an end May 21 without being aware of its geographical and demographical makeup?

Or, let's play along and say this nut job and his reference material, the Old Testament, is indeed correct - then it would be 10000 times more probable that the end of the world, or "Judgement Day" would affect 50 million people and 10,000 square acres of land. That world, would be ending.

Rest easy. The Old Testament also said that no one would know when the end of the world would be. Findings are as accurate as the people who express them, and as in most statistics, the elements to be analyzed are chosen to support theories - and such, selectively choosing Old Testament passages do not equate truth without looking at the context in which the book was written and the passages that were ignored.