He said that the Calvinist doctrine of predestination led believers to seek to demonstrate their elect status, which they did by engaging in commerce and worldly accumulation.

In September 2007 in Singapore, for example, a callus on a tree resembled a monkey, leading believers to pay homage to the "Monkey god" (either Sun Wukong or Hanuman) in the so-called "monkey tree phenomenon".

The next morning, 13 dead cows were found forming a perfect circle around the split tree, leading both skeptics and believers to ask the question "How did they get there?"

Camping's prediction and his promotion of it via his radio network and other promotional means spread the prediction globally, which led believers and non-believers to a variety of actions.

Eventually cured, he becomes, during the early 1960's, a kind of pseudo-guru, leading true believers to salvation.

He also warned of a growing fissure between the Czech humanist intellectuals who have led the revolution and religious believers, particularly Catholics in Slovakia, the nation's eastern region, where religion and historical identity are closely linked.

In the center is Amida Nyorai, the Buddha who leads believers to Paradise; on the right is Senju ("Thousand-Armed") Kannon, the goddess of mercy; on the left is Bato-Kannon, depicted with a horse's head on its forehead, regarded as the protector of animals.

The objective of his ministry was to lead positive believers to spiritual maturity.

This was generally interpreted as a denial of the Trinitarian dogma (actually Servetus had described the Trinity as a "three-headed Cerberus" and "three ghosts" which only led believers to confusion and error).