Protestantism

By Bill Etem

2 Thess 2 says the Antichrist will show up prior to the Second Coming of Christ. Revelation 14. 6-11 says 3 angels from Heaven will show up sooner or later. Daniel 12. 1 says the archangel Michael will show up, eventually, to deliver the Jews. But watch out for angels from Hell. 2 Corinthians 11. 13-15 says Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 1 Peter 5. 8 tells us to be sober and vigil because the Devil walks about like a roaring lion looking to devour those whom he may.

If an angel shows up, and if he tells the pope that the Roman Catholic Church has been dragging people down to eternal perdition for centuries, because Rome is a false church, because Rome is lost in heresy, then the pope will say that angel is an angel from Hell. But Protestants will say that angel might not be an angel from Hell, saying more investigation is required.

Recall Christ tells us in Matthew 16. 13-19 that He founded His Church on a rock and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. We want to find this True Church because it leads people to Heaven, whereas false churches lead people to perdition.

So if an angel shows up and if he tells the members of the ELCA - the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - that the ELCA is a false church which drags people down to perdition, then the members of the ELCA will tend to see that angel as an angel from Hell. But if he is an angel from Heaven...

Why do churches become false churches? They violate Galatians 1. 8-12, John 14. 23-26, 2 Thess 1. 8, Revelation 21. 8....

Churches become false churches when they celebrate Holy Communion in an unworthy manner. 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 says you drink damnation into your soul if you do that. The ELCA gives the bread and the wine to pro-choicers, to pro-gay marriage people. Lots of churches do the same.

There are thousands of separate churches / thousands of separate sects within Christianity. If an angel shows up to tell you...

But you can't know if an angel is an angel from Heaven or from Hell unless you already know how to find the True Version of Christianity, already know how to find the True Church.

If an angel shows up and if he says Church X is a false church which drags people down to eternal perdition, then, if church X is actually God's True Church which leads people to Heaven...

My books emphasize 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29, which again says you drink damnation into your soul if you take Holy Communion in an unworthy manner. For instance, during the centuries when the Inquisition was racking people and burning people at the stake, a person might not have been personally involved in torturing anyone, but if he celebrated Holy Communion with people who supported the doctrine that God supports the Inquisition then you can make a strong case saying he drank damnation into his soul under 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29.

Acts 2. 44-45 and Acts 4. 32-35 get you thinking that Christianity is rather like Socialism. But then Acts 5. 4 tells us that Christians retain control over their own wealth, though they give their wealth to the True Church, which acts as a bank. The early chapters of Acts tells us how the people on the road to Heaven manage their finances. My books argue that compulsory taxation - the income and property taxes - are Anti-Christian. Christ did not authorize Christians to use tax laws, cops with guns, and prisons to extort money from people. And then if the government steals money from people via compulsory taxation, and uses that money to support Anti-Christian things - porn in elementary schools, abortions, Planned Parenthood, drag queens in the kindergartens, the UN...

Try to remember 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29. It stands to reason that you drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate Holy Communion with people who openly support Anti-Christian things.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bill Etem
• Release date: Jun 17, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310186189

Bill Etem

Bill EE-tem. Born in Minneapolis, 1.2.60. Now living in St. Paul. Had lots of jobs: High School math teacher, football coach, track coach, legal coding / data entry, production, bar bouncer etc., etc. Bounced around some myself. Lived in Mexico for 20 months, in Oaxaca. Lived in Los Angeles for a few years. Traveled for 4 months round Europe after graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1983, B.A. in Mathematics. My religious books are all about searching for the True Church. The descriptions and contents of my 10 You Tube playlists also deal with that theme. If a Church leads people to Heaven then that Church is the Bride of Christ, the True Church, the Church Christ founded on a rock, Matthew 16. 13-19. If a church is lost in heresy and drags people down to eternal perdition then that church is a false church. The Christian scriptures are clear there is only one True Church, only one Bride of Christ. And yet there are thousands of separate churches / thousands of unique denominations in the world. This a big glaring problem. John 6. 53-55 tells us one must celebrate Holy Communion to attain Heaven and escape perdition. 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 says you drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate Holy Communion in an unworthy manner. I've spent roughly 7 thousand hours working on my You Tube playlists, so be sure to scrutinize those when you get a chance.  These You Tube videos explain how we got no end of Christians who violate 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29.  They drink damnation into their souls by sharing the bread and the wine with people who push evil, Anti-Christian things. https://youtube.com/@billetem5868 [e-mail]

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Protestantism

Published by Bill Etem at Smashwords

Copyright 2014 Bill Etem

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The True Church, Issues with the Cross and the Crucifix.

Chapter 2. Issues with Protestants

Chapter 3. Divine Law

Chapter 4. Abortion, Scriptures on Hell and Rich People

Chapter 5. The Sign of the Cross

Chapter 6. More Info on the Sign of the Cross

Chapter 7. Info on the Rich and Gay Marriage, on Israel and Zionism.

Protestantism

Chapter 1. The True Church, Issues with the Cross and the Crucifix.

Protestantism begins with the assertion that both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church are false churches: they are not the True Church that we read about in Matthew 16. 13-19.

A false church is a church which leads people away from heaven and to perdition. If a Church leads people to heaven then it is God’s True Church, the Church which Christ founded on a rock.

Similarly, if a religion leads people away from heaven and to perdition then it is a false religion. If a religion leads people to heaven then it is the true religion, aka the True Faith. Those of us who are Christians of course insist that Christianity is the True Faith.

If the Roman Catholic Church is God’s True Church then Protestantism is a satanic rebellion against God and God’s True Church. As you might imagine, Protestants don’t agree that Protestantism is a satanic rebellion against God and God’s True Church.

Yes, well, the above info is all very simple in some ways and impossibly difficult in other ways. How is one supposed to know if a church drags people down to hell or if it leads people to Heaven? Every church claims that it leads people to heaven! And why should one believe Christianity is the True Faith? What’s wrong with Islam? What’s wrong with Hinduism? Chapter 3 in Constitutional History of the Western World deals with the evidence for Christianity. The evidence for Christianity takes a long time to explain, especially if you’re trying to explain things in an adequate way.

Some people will say that since "we know the New Testament supports slavery then we know that Christianity is an evil religion, a false religion." That’s what some people say.

And then to defend Christianity you have to explain that when St. Peter and St. Paul were writing their epistles the Roman Empire was a vast slave empire. All manual labor outside of military duties were performed by slaves. If St. Paul and St. Peter had told slave owners to free their slaves then the freed slaves would have to find jobs to support themselves. But there were no employment agencies, no temp staffing outfits, no fast food joints, no Wal-Marts, no Starbucks, no gas stations, no convenience stores etc to provide employment for freed men and freed women. A female ex-slave could become a prostitute, but that’s not an occupation that will deliver a Christian to Heaven. A male ex-slave could become a gladiator. But, again, that sort of work is Anti-Christian, hence it leads one to perdition not to heaven. If St. Paul and St. Peter advised slaves to revolt then the slaves would have been tortured to death by the Romans. St. Peter and St. Paul never told slave owners to be cruel. The best they apostles could do was to advise slaves to endure their chains with patience, be good Christians, and collect their reward of eternal life in Heaven if they remained faithful to the True Faith. We know that the proponents of the African slave trade said that the slave trade did not violate the Christian faith. But you have to be careful who you listen to when you want to know what Christianity is, when you are trying to discover what Christianity truly teaches. Roman Catholics say Christianity is whatever the Roman Catholic Church says it is. Well, that makes sense if Rome is God’s True Church. And it makes no sense if Rome is a false church. Lots of Protestants say once you’re saved you’re always saved by which they mean that once you are in God’s grace you will never fall from grace, because God won’t let you fall. Good luck finding any proof for such thinking in the scriptures.

The Jews say Christianity is founded upon blasphemy and sacrilege. Christianity says Jesus is God, the Divine Son, and the Jews (and the Muslims) say it is blasphemy and sacrilege to say Jesus is God. Atheists say the Bible if filled with cruel and evil laws and therefore it is evil and idiotic to think the Bible is any sort of authority. So, if you want to go and read Chapter 3 in Constitutional History of the Western World you will learn about Ezekiel 20. 25 which tells us God gave the children of Israel bad laws because He was angry with their incessant rebellions. Even the Bible admits there are bad laws in the Bible, you know, slaughtering bulls and birds for the atonement of sin: execute the Sabbath violators, execute adulteresses etc. When Jesus addressed a mob about to stone to death an adulteress, He said, let him who is without sin cast the first stone. This is an example of Jesus announcing that He has the authority to amend the Old Law and make the New Law. Modern Jews are glad they don’t have to stone people to death, and glad they don’t have to slaughter bulls and goats and birds and lambs etc. But they don’t accept the premise that Jesus had the authority to amend the Mosaic Law.

Well, you can’t get very far in your endeavor to attain Heaven and escape Hell if you commit blasphemy and sacrilege in regards to Jesus. I mean, if Jesus is not God, then it is blasphemy and sacrilege, mortal sins which lead offenders straight to perdition, to say that Jesus is God, as those of us who are Christians say.

But if Jesus is God, then it is blasphemy and sacrilege to say that Jesus is not God. If Jesus is God then you can trust what God says in hellfire scriptures like Matthew 25. 31-46, Luke 16. 19-31, John 15. 6 etc. Can we soften these hellfire scriptures some? Can we say that God will take most of the damned out of the flames at some point and give them more comfortable places in eternal perdition? Judge for yourself to determine how we are to interpret the scriptures.

So, if Rome leads people to heaven, because Rome is the Church mentioned in Matthew 16. 13-19, then it was satanic of Luther to break with Rome and found a new church.

But if Rome was / is a false church, if Rome does lead people away from heaven and straight to eternal perdition, then you definitely want to break away from Rome. It’s not satanic to leave a false church. It’s satanic to remain in a false church. Yes, but if you do leave a false church then please don’t create some Protestant outfit which is just another false church.

About this True Church we read in Matthew 16. 13-19,

`When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Who do men say that I, the son of Man, am? So they said, Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He said to them, But who do you say that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven and earth, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.'

So, we have 2 options with the Roman Catholic Church.

1) Rome is God’s True Church. If you rebel against Rome, if you rebel against God’s True Church, then you can expect to spend eternity in perdition.

2) Rome is a false church, Rome drags souls down to eternal perdition, get away from Rome.

You can’t advance very far in your Christian education if you can’t make a sound decision on whether Rome leads people to Heaven or whether Rome drags people down to eternal perdition!

Suppose the Protestants are right to break with Rome. OK, but that won’t do the Protestants any good if they simply go about forming a collection of false churches, a huge collection of Protestant churches which drag souls down to eternal perdition. I mean, Wikipedia tells us that there are over 40,000 Christian denominations in the world. Suppose it is rank stupidity, suppose it is 100% idiocy to say that all 40,000+ churches are God’s True Church. Well, how do you find the True Church and escape from every false church.

Let’s review the reasons why a church leads people to perdition, the reasons why a church becomes a false church.

1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 says you drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate Holy Communion in an unworthy manner. A church might make a slip-up and it might give Holy Communion to Sabbath violators, to adulterers, to pro-choicers, to gay marriage supporters, to drunkards, to revilers etc. Lots of ways a church can make a slip-up. Lots of ways a church can lead you to eternal perdition. You're accursed if you corrupt St. Paul's doctrines - Galatians 1. 8. You go to the flames if you don't obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ and don't know God - 2 Thess 1. 8. Homosexuals and drunkards, revilers and fornicators and adulterers etc will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven – says so right there in 1 Corinthians 6. 9-10. Acts 26. 12-18 explains St. Paul’s authority. If you say this authority is worthless, what sort of Christian are you? If you accept Acts 26. 12-18 why would you cave to peer pressure from the woke mob, and throw your eternal soul into eternal perdition, by rejecting the clear words of St. Paul?

Your religion is useless - and therefore it won't get you to heaven - if you don't bridle your tongue - James 1. 26. Lots of ways to get into big trouble in terms of hell and damnation. Lots of way you can go to the flames if you misbehave, see Matthew 25. 31-46, John 15. 6, Luke 16. 19-31, Revelation 20. 12-15, Revelation 21. 8, Malachi 4. 1 etc., etc. Looking again at Galatians 1. 8 - even an angel from Heaven is accursed if he alters St. Paul's doctrines - St. Paul said a bishop must be a man of one wife, 1 Timothy 3. 2. The Catholics say a bishop must be a man with no wife. The founders of Mormonism said a bishop may have multiple wives. The LDS have altered their doctrine to ban polygamy, but if the founders of Mormonism were heretics then what are the chances the modern Mormon Church is God's True Church? Well if the modern Mormon Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, no longer teaches a single heresy - a heresy is a false doctrine that is so false and detestable that it drags one down to hell if one hold that false doctrine - and if the LDS leads people to heaven, then the LDS would be God's True Church. St. Paul said women must pray with their heads covered and men must pray with their heads uncovered. People break these rules because they reason that God won't damn them to perdition if they disobey St. Paul on this matter. But if you simply obey St. Paul then you definitely won't be thrown into perdition for disobeying St. Paul, whereas if you disobey and get thrown into perdition for disobeying, then you'll wish that you hadn't disobeyed. It's like when Lot and Lot's wife departed Sodom. Orders were given to Lot's wife to not look back. And then look what happened when she looked back. Or look at Adam and Eve in the garden, orders were given to not eat a certain fruit from a certain tree etc., etc. 1 Peter 5. 8 says the Devil walks about like a roaring lion looking to devour those that he can. Obviously, having contempt for scriptures such as Acts 26. 12-18, John 14. 23-26

Certainly if you take Holy Communion with a Democrat then you drink damnation into your soul. Obviously so.

George Will, in a column he wrote in 1995, gave us the following account of an abortion as witnessed by a Dayton Ohio nurse:

`The mother was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor went in with forceps and grabbed the baby's legs and pulled them down into the birth canal. Then he delivered the baby's body and the arms - everything but the head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening, and sucked the baby's brains out.'

A stab to the back of a baby's skull is indeed brutal but at least death arrives quite swiftly and there is less pain for the aborted child in a partial birth abortion than in some other types of abortion, types which the American medical profession performs every day with the blessing of the American government and the baby-butchering Democratic Party.

So, obviously, the Democratic Party is under the control of the Devil, under the power of El Diablo, as our friends south of the Rio Grande say. You definitely drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate holy communion with a Democrat, with one of those baby-butchering devil Dems! A church is certainly a false church if it gives Holy Communion to people who are quite obviously in the power of Satan.

You get to decide which churches are false churches which drag souls down to hell and you get to decide which Church is God's True Church which leads people to Heaven!

And of course the Democrats accuse the Republican Party of being sunk in evil and Anti-Christian sin. These accusations are looked at in my books. What do you think? Do you drink damnation into your soul if you take holy communion with a Republican as well as with a Democrat? If so, talk about a failure for the American experiment!

I suppose rebellion against God's commands in Malach 3. 5 would be one of the most likely ways that Republicans, but also Dems, violate God's law. A nation doesn't have to let rapists and murderers inside its borders, but it needs a process to let honest aliens in. You can read Malachi 3. 5 and Malachi 4. 1 as well as I can.

There's also simply the fact that you must be in the True Church and you mustn't rebel against the True Church to attain heaven and escape perdition. The True Church is the government which leads people to heaven! If the Republicans rebel against the True Church then the Republicans lead people to perdition.

If you can make a strong case saying that person X is lost in Anti-Christian evil, sunk in sin, then you can make a strong case saying that you will drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate holy communion with that person, recall 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29. Christianity is quite liberal in the sense that you will be forgiven your sins if you repent, but if you are lost in sin, and never repent, if you insist that you have nothing to repent for, when in fact you are lost in sin, then Christianity becomes terribly harsh, in terms of punishment, eternal perdition etc.

If you are a Christian, if you accept John 14. 23-26 - it says those who love Christ keep His words, and those who don't love Christ don't keep His words - then don't reject the hellfire scriptures: John 15. 6, Matthew 25. 31-46, Revelation 20. 12-15 etc.

If you announce that church X is a false church, then you are basically telling people in church X that they are heading towards hell, and their dearly departed relatives, if they were members of church X, will be cast into the lake of fire at the Last Judgment, see Revelation 20. 12-15. People don't like it when you tell them stuff like that. People don't want to hear you saying their church is a worthless corrupt dirty no good false church which drags souls down to hell.

Yes, well, but you see, it is like this: if indeed church X does in fact lead people to the flames of hell, if church X is not, in fact, God's True Church, if it is, in fact, a false church, then people need to hear the truth about church X, even if it hurts the feelings of the people in church X. It's like back in the 1970s the DC-10 had a big problem with its cargo doors blowing off. Lots of people can die when big jets suffer explosive decompression. You hate to tell the president of the DC-10 manufacturer, sorry Mr. President, sorry Mr. Big Shot jet airline maker, but we have to ground your DC-10 fleet. But, you see, it's better to put the DC-10 fleet out of action right away and until the problem with its cargo doors are fixed rather than wait until after the catastrophic Turkish Airlines crash outside of Paris before you ground the DC-10 fleet.

Or recall in Jaws how the cop played by Roy Scheider wanted to close the beaches to the public because the big shark was prowling the waters near those beaches looking to eat people. And the Mayor of the town was super argumentative and hostile to the cop, because the Mayor didn't want to drive the tourists away and deprive the town of all that tourist money, and that would happen if the