Rock Island

By Bill Etem

Christianity says if your name is written in the Book of Life then you go to Heaven. If your name is not written in the Book of Life then you get tossed into the lake of fire, Revelation 20. 12-15.

Protestantism is founded on the contention that both the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church are false churches which lead people to perdition because neither one is the True Church which leads people to Heaven, recall Matthew 16. 13-19.

Protestantism has no reason to exist, indeed Protestantism looks rather satanic, if either the Roman Catholic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church is God's True Church.

But if both Rome and the Eastern Orthodox Church are false churches, if both drag people down to eternal perdition, well, it is still insanity to think every sect within Protestantism is God's True Church.

Which Protestant sects are false churches which drag people down to eternal perdition?

John 6. 53-55 has Jesus saying, in so many words, that you must celebrate Holy Communion to attain Heaven and escape perdition. And 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 say you drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate Holy Communion in an unworthy manner.

So, if a Protestant church celebrates Holy Communion in an unworthy manner every time it gives the bread and the wine to pro-choicers, then that Protestant church leads people to perdition. It is a false church.

Naturally the Protestant churches which celebrate Holy Communion with pro-choicers insist there is nothing wrong with giving the bread and the wine to pro-choicers.

But if it is obvious that that abortion is evil, if it is obvious the pro-choice position is evil...

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 visibleon 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...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, the Democratic Party and no end of churches.

What about this idea? If you celebrate Holy Communion in any church which gives the bread and the wine to people who makes it publicly known that they promote Anti-Christian things, such as the pro-choice ideology, then you drink damnation into your soul.

What things besides pro-choice thinking are Anti-Christian?

Acts 5. 4 explains how the people on the road to Heaven handle their finances. Compulsory taxation, such as the income tax and the property tax, are Anti-Christian things. They are theft. Theft is Anti-Christian. Christ said render unto Caesar, but He wasn't saying Caesar was a good Christian on the road to Heaven. Christ wasn't saying that it is a fine Christian thing to threaten people with prison if they refuse to hand over their money to an Anti-Christian State which promotes Anti-Christian things, such as in the public schools.

It is Anti-Christian to buy or sell books which teach Christianity. The apostles didn't sell their Gospels / Epistles. A Christian publishing house is doing something Anti-Christian and is guilty of simony when it sells books which teach the True Faith.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bill Etem
• Release date: Mar 12, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311698636

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. So this a big 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.  The main theme of these videos says: STOP THROWING YOURSELVES INTO HELL!!!  Conservative Christians, in the USA and elsewhere, celebrate Holy Communion in an unworthy manner, and therefore they drink damnation into their souls, everytime they share the bread and the wine with Leftists. Yes, yes, there are some nice pleasant Democrats, but, nevertheless, Leftist laws and policies are straight from the Devil. The Left murders millions of babies every year via abortion. The Left pushes porn in the schools, pushes gay marriage, lies about the Climate, lies about Covid etc. Conservatives drink damnation into their souls, by violating 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29, whenever they share the bread and the wine with Leftists. https://youtube.com/@billetem5868 [e-mail]

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Rock Island

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Rock Island

Me – Bill Etem – speaking both to the panel of experts and to the audience – "There are now 19 people in the audience here at this Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Rock Island, IL – I suppose we should begin. I don’t see why we shouldn’t begin. I mean, it’s not as if we’re waiting for some hotshot VIP to show up. And what’s wrong with you people that are here right now? People who say Protestantism is voodoo would say tons of stuff is wrong with you guys. OK, listen up, audience participation is encouraged here. If you got something on your mind then just shout it out. No need for the hassle of raising your hand. So, the Rock Island Symposium is here to investigate and illuminate any big huge important problems that may exist with Protestantism. Does Protestantism drag souls down to hell? Does Protestantism, or to be more precise, does one sect, or does more than one sect within Protestantism, lead people to perdition? There are 40,000+ Christian denominations in the world. Sounds sort of farfetched to insist every one of these 40,000+ churches is God’s True Church. So, which churches are false churches which drag souls down to eternal perdition? Which ones are false churches? Protestants say God’s True Church is a Protestant Church. God’s True Church can be a Protestant Church and yet there might still be thousands of Protestant church which are false churches. There might still be thousands of Protestant churches which lead people away from heaven and to eternal perdition.

At first I was going to call this Symposium:

The Rock Island Symposium: Topics in Deviltry: The Satanic Protestant Cults under The Sign of the Cross

But then I thought that title was going to repel more people than it is going to entice, mesmerize, captivate and bedazzle. So I changed it to simply:

The Rock Island Symposium

This latter title is rather boring and exceedingly noncontroversial. I wasn’t trying to imply that Protestants pray to the devil or worship the devil or in any way endorse the devil. But if a Protestant church leads people away from heaven and to perdition, because it is lost in heresy and sacrilege, because it is a false church, because it is simply not the True Church, simply not the Church which Christ founded on a rock, recall Matthew 16. 13-19, if a church is a false church, and a false church is a church which leads people away from heaven and to eternal perdition, then it is OK to just go ahead and announce that that Protestant church is under the power of Satan, and therefore that church is, essentially, a satanic cult. Are we clear on this? God’s True Church leads people to heaven. False churches lead people to eternal perdition. Do you all have the Standard Model Version 3.74? I sent it out to all the invitees. I got copies on the table in the back if you need one. The discussion will focus on contents of 3.74.

The Standard Model Version 3. 74

To give you a paraphrase of the most important info in my books:

If you insist there is no evidence for Christianity, well, not to be rude or anything like that, but one of the most delusional things a person can say is: there is no evidence for Christianity.

Chapter 3 of Constitutional History of the Western World explains the immense evidence for Christianity.

What happens is people become so disgusted with the concept that one will be tortured for all eternity in a lake of fire if one is not among the elect, if one's name is not written in the Book of Life, so put off by what they have been told Christianity teaches that they never trouble themselves to learn what Christianity actually teaches, and they never trouble themselves to examine the immense evidence for Christianity. I push the idea that God takes many or most of the damned out of the tortures of hellfire and gives them more comfortable places in eternal perdition. The scriptures allow for this interpretation. And you can certainly argue that it is blasphemy of God to portray Him as a merciless Deity who tortures forever and ever in a lake of fire every poor damned lost sinner whose name is not written in the Book of Life, and who therefore gets tossed into the lake of fire, see Revelation 20. 12-15.

Your more outspoken Non-Christians say those of us who are Christians are brainless idiots for insisting Jesus is God, and for insisting that a person must be a Christian, must worship Jesus as God, the Divine Son, to attain Heaven and escape perdition, see John 15. 6, Luke 13. 3 etc.

Now if Jesus is God, the Divine Son, as those of us who are Christians profess, if Christianity is the True Faith, one can still prove that lots of Christians are not thinking very clearly because Christians have divided ourselves into 40,000+ churches / separate denominations, when there is only one True Church, see Matthew 16. 13-19 and Ephesians 4. 4. That's Wikipedia's estimate of 40,000+ churches. People say Wikipedia is terribly untrustworthy, so even if they are off by 95% that still leaves 2,000+ churches / denominations when there is only 1 True Church.

A church might become a false church, and therefore it leads people to perdition not to Heaven, because it celebrates Holy Communion in an unworthy manner. 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 says you drink damnation into your soul if you do that. Suppose a church leads people to perdition because it gives the Eucharist to pro-choicers. Or suppose it leads people to perdition because it gives the Eucharist to people who wave the gay rainbow flag. That flag is a sacrilege in Christianity, because the rainbow is the sacred symbol of the Noahic Covenant. But the gays have made it the symbol of their pride in homosexual sin and immorality, so the gay rainbow flag is a sacrilege.

The scriptures are filled with verses on Hell and perdition: 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29, Galatians 1. 8, 2 Thess 1. 8, John 14. 23-26, John 15. 6, 1 Corinthians 6. 9-10, 1 Peter 5. 8, Matthew 25. 31-46 etc. Perdition is any place in the afterlife which is not Heaven, though generally it is seen as a place of punishment ranging from mild to hellish.

So a church, any church, is either lost in heresy or else it leads people to perdition. A church, any church, either leads people to Heaven or else it doesn't. The people in a church either drink damnation into their souls because that church celebrates Holy Communion in an unworthy manner, or else they don't drink damnation into their souls.

Some definitions - if a Church leads people to Heaven then it is God's True Church, see Matthew 16. 13-19.

If a church leads people to perdition, if it is lost in heresy, then that church is a false church.

Suppose thousands of representatives of the world's thousands of churches / individual denominations gather for a big conference. The rep for the Church of England gets up on the stage and tells the other reps they should renounce their churches and join the Church of England, because, she says, the Church of England definitely leads people to Heaven, because the Church of England is most certainly God's True Church, the Church Christ founded on a rock, see Matthew 16. 13-19, whereas every other church... She doesn't explicitly say every church except the Church of England drags people down to Hell. She doesn't explicitly say every church which is not the Church of England is a false church, but she implies they are all false churches when she explicitly says renounce your churches and embrace the Church of England.

Naturally lots of jeers and insults rain down on her head from the other reps. They want her to amend her speech. But it would be irrational for her to amend her speech if she is merely going to promote the Church of England along with one or more churches in her 2nd speech. Let's examine why this is.

Scenario 1 - If she blew it in her 1st speech, if the Church of England is a false church not God's True Church, if the Church of England leads people to perdition not to Heaven, then promoting the Church of England in a 2nd speech will not get her off the road to perdition. She's promoting a false church. She's telling people the Church of England will lead them to Heaven, when it will lead them to perdition. So she is leading people to perdition, so she is on the road to perdition. You have to lead people to Heaven to be on the road to Heaven. Even if she promotes the True Church in her 2nd speech along with a false church, as long as she is promoting a false church then she is leading people to perdition, and so she is on the road to perdition.

Scenario 2 - If she didn't blow it in her first speech, if the Church of England is God's True Church, the Church which Christ founded on a rock, then she should stop talking and not give a 2nd speech. Because if she promotes the Church of England along with a 2nd church in her amended speech, and if this 2nd Church is a false church, if it is a church which leads people to perdition not to Heaven, then she will indeed be promoting a church which leads people to perdition, and so she will be leading people to perdition. Yes, she will be promoting one Church which leads people to Heaven, but she will also be pushing a 2nd church which leads people to perdition, and so, again, she will be leading people to perdition, and so she is on the road to perdition and is not on the road to Heaven.

So, it's irrational for the rep to give a 2nd speech if she is merely going to promote the Church of England along with another church or churches in a 2nd speech.

Just promote the True Church and don't promote any false churches.

That ought to be obvious but lots of people seem to require a long explanation explaining why it is obvious.

There are lots of Non-Christians out there who will slam you and insist you are a brainless idiot if you declare that Christianity is the one True Faith.

Yes, but if those of us who are Christians are right, if Christianity is the one True Faith, there are still no end of ways that some false church can drag you down to eternal perdition. Doesn't every mainline Protestant church give the bread and the wine to pro-choicers? The Roman Catholic Church doesn't forbid her parish priests to give Holy Communion to pro-choicers if those priests choose to do so.

Click on the You Tube link below my Smashwords bio section to get to nearly 10,000 videos in 7 playlists. There's a lot of material in these videos which deal with political lies. Political lies pertain to false churches and the search for the True Church, because they pertain to Revelation 21. 8 (all liars go to the lake of fire), and because they pertain to Malachi 4. 1 (the day is coming burning like an oven when all the proud and wicked people will be set on fire), and they pertain to 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 (you drink damnation into your soul if you celebrate Holy Communion in an unworthy manner), and they pertain to Revelation 20. 12-15 (you get tossed into the lake of fire if your name is not written in The Book of Life), and pertain to Matthew 25. 31-46 (Jesus gives us some words about Hellfire) which pertains to John 14. 23-26 (those who love Jesus keep His words, those who don't love Jesus don't keep His words).

You get a big dose of evidence in these You Tube playlists, tons of evidence which says the Climate Alarmists - Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, AOC, Presidents Obama and Biden; John Kerry, King Charles, Michael Mann etc are pushing a scam. Whether wittingly or unwittingly, they are pushing lies, selling delusion, brainwashing the masses, leading the world deeper and deeper into the insanity of the Climate Cult, in short, spreading deception. And again, lies pertain to Revelation 21. 8, Malachi 4. 1, 1 Corinthians 11. 27-29, Revelation 20. 12-15 etc. The whole madness is perpetuated because the press makes lots of money by pushing sensational Climate lies, by pushing Catastrophic Scenarios. And so the lying dollar-chasing press insists that the legit scientists are the Climate Change Alarmists, the people who say burning fossil fuels will lead to an Existential Crisis for Humanity. The lying press says those scientists who are Climate Change Deniers are crackpot pseudo-scientists not worth listening to. The press's love for $$$ corrupts their perspective on the Science. If the press was honest they would report the truth, which is the Climate Change Denier scientists: Patrick Moore, Richard Lindzen, Will Happer, Ian Plimer, Bob Carter etc are the legit scientists whereas Michael Mann and all the other Climate Alarmists are the crack-pot pseudo-scientists.

The world / the jury has had over 30 years to examine the evidence pertaining to the Global Warming Lie, over 30 years to deliberate on the Fossil Fuels are an Existential Threat to Humanity Scam. You can't say we haven't had enough time to deliver a verdict.

All of my books push the idea that though Christianity is true nevertheless every church under the cross leads people to perdition, because every church under the cross is a false church, because no church under the cross is the True Church, the Church Christ founded on a rock, Matthew 16. 13-19.

My books drop lots of hints saying the cross is the evil mark of the beast. The reasoning runs that the scriptures which say the cross of Christ is sacred mean that Christ's sacrifice on the cross is sacred. Those scriptures don't mean a pagan instrument of torture and execution, a cross, is sacred to the Creator of the Universe. There was no end of evil perpetrated over the centuries by people carrying crosses. That evil is reflected in the cross, rather as the evil of the Nazis is reflected in the Nazi Swastika.

So, the theory runs that the cross is the mark of the beast. One burns in hell forever and ever if one puts the mark of the beast on one's forehead, see Revelation 14. 11.

Yes, if in fact the cross is evil in the sight of God, then it is sacrilege to say the cross is sacred, in which case every church under the cross commits sacrilege. Therefore they all lead people to perdition.

The fans of the cross say the above is all wrong. The fans of the cross say the cross is the holiest symbol in the universe, and one is sunk in sacrilege and bound for hell if one says the cross is evil.

If the cross is indeed sacred in the eyes of God, then the cross is probably the seal of God mentioned in Revelation 9. And you must have this seal of God on your forehead to escape the months of torment described in Revelation 9. This pertains to the Great Tribulation, see Revelation 18.

If you put the mark of a cross on your forehead during the Great Tribulation, and if the cross is the seal of God, if it saves you from months of agonizing torture, as described in Revelation 9, then you have made a wise move and you are a saint bound for Heaven!

But if you make a slip-up in your theological reasoning, if you put the cross on your forehead, thinking the cross is the seal of God which will save you from months of torment, but then if you end up burning in hell forever and ever, because the cross is in fact the mark of the beast...

There are some obvious conclusions which follow from different premises. For instance, if thousands upon thousands of churches under the cross drag people down to eternal perdition because they are false churches lost in heresy, but if at least one Church under the cross leads people to Heaven, then you can trust that Church when it says the cross is sacred to God. Even if every church under the cross is a false church this wouldn't prove with 100% certainty the cross is evil.

Of course if the cross is the mark of the beast then every church under the cross is a false church. They all lead people to perdition. If a church tells you that you have nothing to fear if you put the mark of a cross on your forehead during the Great Tribulation, and then you end up burning in Hell forever and ever, then it was a false church not the True Church which led you to burn in Hell forever.

Of course a big Tribulation for people like Jews and Muslims, in contemplating converting to Christianity, is a