Little Hawk said it right...

"Like many other people with rigid beliefs (religious or otherwise), he was led astray by his own belief system and his own enthusiasm. The same can be said of his followers. They all put their faith on a shaky and questionable foundation, and they have all been disappointed accordingly....

This is the LONG version (well...close) of something I have posted several times. A basic principle of logic is:
From false premises, anything follows!

The implications of that are important. IF you base an analysis on premises that are not TRUE, you can come up with almost any conclusion! Thus, IF he had a bad translation of the Bible, and/or IF he read the wrong parts, and/or IF he 'interpreted' it carelessly, and/or......IF that Bible never was, in fact the revealed Word, it is possible to derive almost any course of action, belief structure, theological convolution or personal opinion from it!

Because the key word in Camping's philosophy is **BELIEF** (he does not 'know' that he has all the right premises--or ANY of the right, true premises, his **BELIEF** can hardly be more than wishful thinking based on bad reading of a doubtful source! Now...why humans get themselves into such awkward predicaments is a matter for Psychology. It is sorta natural to 'wish' one had one easy source, with no ambiguities, for all their serious questions, but it-just-don't-work-that-way.


(Note...it is entirely possible to HAVE true premises and still get everything wrong thru careless logic...but the way to approach reason is: IF conclusions are not working, the first thing to suspect IS that you have started with false premises....but again, psychology can help explain why that is so hard to do!)