Seemingly oblivious to Jesus's words that no-one knows the day or the hour, this group has mixed selected old testament passages with numerology, and some seemingly baseless assumptions; to come up with 21 May 2011 as the use-by date of the world.
Why do people do this? I'd estimate at least 99% of people would dismiss this as loopy, and distance themselves further from anything faith-related. Of the 1% who might be scared into faith (i'll leave the ethics of that for another day) surely most of them will leave when the prediction falls flat (like with JW's in 1975).
In the end, next to nothing is achieved and massive damage is done to the credibility of anything Jesus-related. I just don't get it. Do you?
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