"Churchism in the Church Age"

By Bill Young

Since 70 AD, our so-called Christian forefathers have set us on a course that has only led us further and further away from understanding of the Words from heaven by promoting a false religion known as "The Church Age," which I refer to as "Churchism." This Church Age did not begin until about 325 AD and it dominated the Christian thinking for some 1,200 years before the Protestants broke away from it about five hundred years ago. It was the "Catholic Church" who created the Church Age and the world has been drawn into believing in this "ghost religion" that was never real or legitimate. It was not created from reading and understanding the Words from heaven. "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Rom. 10:17, 18). Searching the Words from heaven is our duty to God as well as to ourselves and he will bless who he will bless with understanding. But there are many who will not be so blessed, "Unto you (Jesus's disciples) it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all things are done in parables" (Mark 4:11). The "Church-Age believers" are those who are "without" and for 1,700 years they have remained without, yet the world continues to accept their words as Gospel. There are two ways to know God, one is to see, with an open mind, his Creation in the world and universe, to be attentive to its magnificent diversity and harmony and the other is through his Words that he has written for us. The early American Indian only had the first way of knowing God until the new settlers came to America and introduced Churchism's "church salvation." Now both the Indian as well as all the civilized earth have been following a religion which became the worlds' greatest deception and hoax.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 26, 2018
• ISBN: 9781641915090

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Introduction

Churchgoers

Many people, when they become interested in eternity, have already wasted away much of their time on this earth. They will begin to research which Church to attend instead of researching the Words from heaven to determine what God would have them to do and they start to look for a Church to join. Why? It’s because since 70 AD that’s all this world has ever known to do. It has been the Accepted Way for some 1,700 years. It has been the most prominent salvation plan that has been offered by these religious leaders and it is known as "church salvation. Therefore, joining a church of some sort was seemingly the only option that has been recognized and accepted. The accepted way of Churchism" has created a social barrier that suppresses any other way or even any deviation as Apostate. With forty thousand different kinds of denominations to choose from today, people will eventually settle on one they can tolerate that doesn’t do strange things in their services. At this point, they have put themselves in the hands of people who they feel comfortable with, who, in their understanding, will help get them ready to meet God with approval.

This kind of thinking is where those who are interested in eternity have gotten way off course. The erroneous "Church Salvation" comes from a structured institution that has a capacity to produce preachers for their pulpits, who attempt to hold their attention for thirty minutes to an hour every week. The question should be asked, who qualifies these preachers for their pulpits? Does it come from manmade seminaries, preacher colleges, or does it come from the authority of heaven? Is God still speaking to people today through the Holy Spirit giving them new Words from heaven? It’s definitely not from God because he had no part in the creation of the forty thousand denominations and God is not sending any more Words to be written. The Book is finished.

He is the One God and he did not provide for many paths to Salvation. All of God’s teachers or preachers were removed from the earth by 70 AD and after the Resurrection was completed God chose no more preachers. If He had chosen any other person or persons to speak for him we would be able to find it written in His Scriptures because God has never left his people in the dark. Neither has God ever left salvation in the hands of man to be determined for his people. It is ironic that those of Churchism have found themselves in the dark about when Christ will return because they have been expecting Christ to return every day since the Church Age began and that’s some 1,700 years. Usually when someone promises to come to see you soon and weeks later they still haven’t come, you would normally give up on them. But Churchism has been looking every day now for 1,700 years and they never gave up! Isn’t it time to consider the possibility that just maybe you have received some bad information about his coming?

For us to produce our own preachers for God is a grave and grievous error. The so-called Church Age has produced more than forty thousand different opinionated denominational preachers, none of which are approved by the Spirit of God. Spiritual matters should be totally different from our physical and social matters and we cannot use the same standards of qualification for those who want to instruct us in spiritual matters. This must come from those who God has chosen rather from any chosen by man.

Everyone wants to find a doctor, a lawyer, or a dentist who is recognized as having been trained by other qualified people according to the places where they went to school. Yet man will put his eternal salvation into the hands of people who have not been qualified by the Spirit of God and his begotten Son who are the only ones who can qualify them. The New Testament leaves no doubt about who the qualifiers are. The so-called clergy, men of the cloth, priests, ordained preachers, pastors, ministers, who are accepted by the Church Age followers are nothing more than counterfeits who are trying to be what they can never be. God had no say in these mass-produced clergy assembly-lines. The days of God speaking to us by direct revelation through men chosen by him on earth is long since gone. If we wish to know God, his Spirit and his begotten Son then we must accept that the Book is finished and we need only see and read what we have received from Him, his spoken Words written. You might ask why everyone accepts that the Old Testament is finished and virtually no one is accepting the New Testament as complete. You cannot believe that Christ has yet to come to finish the work of God in the New Testament and believe that the New Testament is finished. The New Testament can only be finished in light of a total fulfillment which did come in 70 AD.

It was the Spirit of God who instructed those chosen of God to say what they said and had it written for us to hear also. Are these uninspired preachers of today and since 70 AD going to explain to us what inspired preachers of God have already explained to us? Does that make any sense at all? We cannot hear the Words of God by listening and hearing the words of man, they are incompatible. Have you read anything in the NT about God sending more preachers after 70 AD?

When Jesus saw the evils of the Jewish leaders and their intent, he began to teach in parables to prevent them from understanding his words. This is in essence of how the New Testament was written as well as the Old Testament by using parables with symbolic and figurative languages. Do you really believe that any of the forty thousand varieties of church preachers of today (and since 70 AD) have been blessed by God to see and understand better than others. If we are true disciples of Christ and his Father, then like his early disciples, we are privileged to also gain understanding yet by measure. You will never understand the Words from heaven by listening to Church Age assembly-line production preachers. They cannot even agree on what is written for us and the hope which they offer is void of any authority. The Church Age leaders of today are blind and cannot see, otherwise they would all speak with the same understanding.

All men are blind until God is ready for man to see. God has no highly educated Scholars on earth since 70 AD who can explain His Words because they are blind like Paul was before his eyes were opened.

Beware of TV and radio preachers who ask you for money saying, "Your giving to us is giving to God." Too many of them are now millionaires. Beware of churches and preachers who make you think that a donation to them is a gift to God and is considered to be part of their required worship service. # There is not one Word of Scripture to support giving a portion of our income to a Church. The only place where God asked for your money is a deposit in heaven where your treasures are kept for safekeeping. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth . . . But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven . . . For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matt. 6:19–21). The fulfillment of the Law being love thy neighbor as thyself is where he has given us charge to give to the poor and needy, especially to those who belong to Him. Christ’s disciples were given charge to Love thy neighbor as thyself also known as Alms. (See Acts 10:1–4, 31; 1 Cor. 16:1–3; Acts 11:27–30). In Mark 12:33 we read that this love is more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. Too many superstar televangelist and mega-church preachers are putting on Dog and Pony shows with flashing lights and musicians in the name of Christian salvation. One way of determining who they are is by who gets the applauses. This is not the work of God’s Kingdom.

The young people of today have very little understanding of why they even live on this earth. The standard of right and wrong becomes so blurred that it’s not really distinguishable for so many. Without the Words from heaven, right and wrong, good and evil have no meaning. They have no way to measure up from down or left from right and that becomes the standard of the society they live in. They fill their void with drugs, entertainment and evil standards that no longer have push back from our American society and therefore no penitence, no penance and no penalty. The things they love become a pit that is spiraling downward toward destruction.

God said to Isaiah, I am the lord, and there is no one else . . . That there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else . . . To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare, that we may be like? Remember the former things of Old: for I am God, and there is none else . . . . I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do my pleasure (Isaiah 45:5, 6 and 46:5, 9, 10). The beginning was Man’s removal from the Garden and the end was the restoration of man in 70 AD, a four thousand year process. Words from heaven are eternal life and when we reject and twist the Words from heaven, we reject God’s offer of eternal life (John 6:68).

Churchism in The Church Age

The Accepted Way

The greatest deception and the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind was the Church Age and the central theme of this beguiling fraud is Church Salvation. Their greatest mistake was in teaching that Christ failed to show up for his Second Coming.

When Jesus told Pilate, Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" (John 18:37, 38). The words of Jesus’ voice have been written and his Words have been rejected. Truth is not what some preachers expound from a pulpit. Truth is that which has been written down for us from heaven. Jesus once said to his disciples, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). We have an opportunity to hear truth as written or to hear an opinion of what is truth from the pulpits. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing (nought) the understanding (discernment) of the prudent (intelligent) (1 Cor. 1:19).

Should we trust the intent and understanding (or lack thereof) of a church preacher who has been ordained by man or should we trust the writers of the New Covenant who were ordained and sent by God. The two are in great conflict; mixing them together is like mixing good with evil.

The world has accepted The Church as the avenue to eternal life, the way of salvation, but without any evidence to support such a conclusion from the Words from heaven found in the Christian Bible. When I say this, I am not condemning or judging everyone who, in the last 1,700 years has accepted Church salvation as God’s plan of salvation. I am saying that those who have accepted such have been lost in a world of misinformation. I know how so many have dedicated their lives to please God and to follow the example of Jesus Christ. Of Israel Paul said, Brethern my heart’s desire . . . [is for them], that they might be saved . . . they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God (Romans 10:1–4). So many have been followers of such people in the Church Age and have listened to people who know not what they speak.

Some people say that the most valuable commodity is information. That really depends on whether it is good or bad information. Most human tragedies come from bad information. I find Churchism is a truck load of bad information and the longer you hang on to it the worse it gets. It’s like climbing higher and higher up a tree that is beginning to fall; nothing good can come from continuing in the direction you are going (an old wise saying).

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, . . . that a man of God may be perfect [complete] throughly furnished unto all good works (2 Tim. 3:16, 17). If the Scriptures are given to us that we may be made complete, then why do we need Churches with preachers? I find that Churches exist for two reasons: (1) To train and educate the churchgoers to understand the doctrines of which each Church has chosen. (2) To perform a Worship Service to God according to the Doctrine that each church has chosen which is according to men’s understanding or misunderstanding of Scriptures. They are also taught to give the Churches money to return a portion of their money back to God to further this type of religion. # Neither one of these two reasons have any support what-so-ever from the Scriptures.

For all those who have looked to Churchism for eternal salvation, I write this book, and for all those who have pulled away from Churchism in search of eternal salvation, I write this book. The Church Age is and has been the greatest hoax and fraud ever perpetrated on mankind. I say hoax rather than error because those who created the Church Age in the early 300 AD period had other things in mind than eternal salvation and this is the crumbling foundation by which Churchism has been built upon. The sadness of the Church Age is when the Protestants finally broke away from the Catholic Churches some five hundred years ago at a time when this great hoax could have and should have been rectified. The remedy would have been so easy. All they had to do was to demand that only the Words of the Scriptures would be used to guide them to true understanding of what our God in heaven was speaking to us and that the traditions of men were not to be considered in any way. They failed to do the right thing.

When it comes to knowledge and understanding, our greatest errors in life usually come from the lack of good information. Can we trust the Bible? Yes, but we cannot trust any men on earth since 70 AD to explain it to us? For those who put their faith in man, God has always been right in Scriptures for the last 1,700 years and foolish man has only been guessing. Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the Commandment shall be rewarded (Prov. 13:13). There is no other religious source on earth other than the Words from heaven that can shine a light of understanding in explaining why we exist and what our Creator expects of us as his creation. There are no other religions on earth that can offer eternal life, yet, we have ten thousand religions and more than forty thousand denominations and so-called nondenominations. For the Church Age followers who are convinced they are on the right track, you should take a serious look at your religious genealogy which is Catholic. Catholicism’s history is your history and the foundation of all you believe. If you don’t know your history then you don’t know who you really are. You have joined yourself with millions of others to the great Babylon (Babel, confusion) and you might as well throw your Bible in the trash if you are not going to use it, or better yet, give it to someone who will use it.

It is with these things in mind that I have searched the Wisdom of God that I may understand how the human race could get into such a horrible mess as to have ten thousand religions and to have the one true religion of Christianity hijacked, twisted, and divided into forty thousand denominational schisms with no possible way of coming to any unity of the same understanding. I find it is because man has trusted uninspired men to explain for them the Words of Scriptures written for our understanding instead of going to the inspired source for himself. He has allowed counterfeit uninspired preachers, who are not sent by God, to replace God’s inspired preachers he had sent and who never lived past 70 AD.

I know that what I am saying about preachers will upset at least 99.999 percent of all the churches and preachers and church leaders in the world, but they best pay attention to the fact that they are in total conflict with God’s Words. # I would challenge any one of these churches or preachers to show just cause for their behavior for trying to be what they cannot be. The real question now is why has God allowed the Church Age to dominate the earth for nearly two thousand years? What has he been waiting for? I would like for you to think on these things.

When I see people traveling down a road that will not take them to where they say they are going and I know the road is impassable, I don’t mind telling them it would be a mistake to continue on that road. But if they insist on continuing because they have been taking that road for years, along with their family and friends, there’s nothing more I can do but to hope that they will recognize their mistake before it is too late.

Because most of the world is more familiar with the King James Version’s use of the names of God and Jesus, I also will use them rather than Yahweh and Yahshua.

The Birth of Churchism

The birth of the Church was not on the Day of Pentecost, it was created about three hundred years later with the help of Emperor Constantine and it was first called the Catholic Church. On the day of Pentecost the Ecclesia or the calling out began with the Jews going into assemblies to receive the Words from heaven. I use the word Churchism to explain nearly two thousand years of Catholicism and Protestantism, two religions that were not created from the pages of the New Testament for which they are supposed to represent. Churchism is a religion just like the other ten thousand religions in the world, claiming to be Christianity, even claiming to be members of the Ecclesia of two thousand years ago. However, I find no resemblance to the Ecclesia that existed before 70 AD. Nor is there any resemblance to anything foretold about the Kingdom Age, which began in 70 AD. When one looks closely at the written pages of the Old and New Covenant for the identity of God’s people we find his people in the New Testament have been given a new name which is Christians. None of the activity or beliefs of today’s Churchism are in any way reflective of what I read from the written Words of heaven.

Then we look at the Protestants who broke away from the Catholic Church around 1520 AD with the help of Martin Luther and many others who laid the foundation before him with their lives such as Wycliffe, John Hus, John Pupper of Gosh, John of Wesel, William Tyndale. All these Catholics challenged the Church by claiming basically that only the Bible has irrefutable authority and not the Church and they attempted to restore Scriptural authority to the Church. They denounced the evils in the Church from the parish priest to the Pope and they paid dearly with persecution, torment and death as with John Hus who was burned at the stake as were many others. They were all persecuted and their work destroyed.

Although the Protestants removed much of Catholicism’s pompous and repetitious ceremonies and language of the hierarchy of the Catholics, the Protestants still have the Catholic doctrine with church salvation, church control, and church collection. The Protestants also kept the controlling clergies with overseers called elders or bishops along with the standard beliefs and concepts of the Catholic religion teaching falsely that Christ failed to show up at his promised Second Coming. That’s as bad as not showing up for one’s wedding as these churchgoers believe that Christ didn’t show up for his own wedding supper and his marriage