Hi Albert,

I agree that many people accept/believe the five month doctrine just because Mr. Camping is teaching it, the status quo. The status quo, ever so powerful among people…     

It is baffling why many do not seem to be even concerned whether the Bottomless Pit is opened up once or twice. They do not seem to be concerned about the “green grass” that is present during the five months. They don’t seem to think that these(and many, many, many more) are important questions. It reminds me of my “battles” with people during the church age over whether the rapture came at the beginning of the Great Tribulation or at the end. They told me it was not important and to “just be ready”. I told them that they would be taking a chance on being deceived because the Church went apostate during the Great Tribulation. That did not seem to faze them.

This five month doctrine is as disheartening(because so many people believe in that doctrine) as Tim Le Haye and Jerry Jenkins “Left Behind” movies/books. There is now a trailer for a movie called “2012”, which is a movie about the end of the world based on the Mayan Calendar. It used physical disaster as the device to bring on the end of the world. There is this scene where this monk is ringing a bell atop a mountain top. The idea of sounding a warning is probably something they stole from the bible. Before the monk can get in all of his rings, the nearby mountains began melting and he is overtaken in a flood. Again, destroying mankind using this stuff is something they stole from the bible. Also, mankind, when describing something HUGE, they say things like “of biblical proportions”. Again all thefts from the Bible. But this time, I am not convinced of the world ending in that way.

I also agree 100% with using the “biblical calendar” because you are just comparing spiritual with spiritual. But to get May 21 2011, you have to go outside the Bible, which I do not think is a good thing. Why so many people believe this wholeheartedly, I do not know. I suspect that when exposed to the many, many timepaths that point to May 21, 2011, it is hard to NOT believe. But that tiny bit of secular data causes the whole thing to fall like a house of cards, in my opinion. I think the many timepaths that seem too numerous to be a coincidence could be a snare.

And you know what is weird? That most of the people who say they believe in May 21 2011 will not liquidate all their assets before that date to get the gospel out. If I believed 100%, I would liquidate all my assets by that date to use to get the gospel out. There are ways to do this and still have money to live on up until the last day. Family Radio will not even do this. In my mind, people are “hedging their bets” just in case it does not happen. After all, they will need something to live on just in case…

I am not saying this to poke fun. I am seriously saying that if I believed in that day 100%, I would put my money where my mouth was, but for some reason I do not think that they will do it.

(There are only a couple of legitimate reasons not to do this-such as unbelieving spousal disagreements, saving a little for emergencies, etc.) Because if the 5 month doctrine is true, leaving money behind for your loved ones will not help them out in the slightest….not even one iota.

I risked everything and left everything behind when I left the Church. At the time, I felt that if I was wrong, I was seriously  blaspheming the Holy Spirit and my eternal life would be forefeit. But I did it anyway.

Yeah, Albert, I liked your video. I also made a video using final cut pro. It is a satire on the End of the Church Age with actors acting as Pastors and such. I want to post it on the internet, but I have to check with an entertainment lawyer first because I used real church signs(“Every Sunday is like happy hour here”, etc), church building shots, fictitious names eerily similar to real life people/organizations(Pastor Billy “freewilly” Jacobs, Pastor T.D. Moneybags), etc.   I am sure that they would sue me if they got the chance.  I think I am covered under the “fair use” statute, where you can use copyrighted material if you are critiquing and organization, which I am. Plus, I took a lot of the images from the street, which might be public domain.