As a serious King James bible believer (and yes, tons of us take that book very literally), I'm compelled to add my 2 cents here, not worth much, of course. I want to say up front that I don't identify in any way with the TBN crowd of charasmatic pentecostal goofballs; those people shameful charlatans and liars who make Christianity look so foolish these days.

The Mayan calendar/2012 business is just more of the same ancient gnostic stuff that will never go away; the same old concept that some humans are "special" and have visions that mean something. It just ain't so, and I personally find this very comforting and sensible. We're told very straight in scripture, Acts 10:34, that God is "NO respecter of persons," meaning nobody is special, we're all in the same boat, all on the same level, all lost and in need of a saviour. That saviour has already come and gone, by the way, and will return again one day for His own. You want to RUN away from anybody who says he or she is having visions and ALL datesetters. The bible is a finished work. You decide (free will) to believe what it says or you don't; you don't get to pick the good stuff and throw out what is distasteful. To do that, you MUST understand the concept of dispensations as mentioned in Hebrews 1:1, that "God in sundry times and in diverse manners spake"; that not everything said in that book is meant for you personally. This is referred to as "rightly dividing the word of truth," II Timothy 2:15. Doctrine is essential to a serious believer.