Bill Etem

The Girl on Fire: Katniss Everdeen and the Christian Symbolism in The Hunger Games (eBook, ePUB)

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The Book of Revelation tells us there will be a war between those who have the mark of the beast on their foreheads or right hands and those who have the seal of God on their foreheads. It will be war between those who are in the True Church and those who are bound for Hell.

So, how do you find the True Church? Wikipedia tells us there are 40,000+ churches / unique denominations in the world. How is one supposed to find the True Church amid that lot?

1 Corinthians 11. 27-29 says one drinks damnation into one's soul if one celebrates Holy Communion in an unworthy manner. So, for instance, if a church gives Holy Communion to serial killers or serial rapists who claim they have repented, then you get to decide if that church is an evil false church which leads people to Hell or if it is God's True Church which leads people to Heaven.

Suppose the True Church tells Messers Biden, Blinken, Putin, Boris Johnson etc that they are on the road to perdition because of their actions in the Russia / Ukraine War, and suppose the True Church says they must take actions A, B, C, D...to get on the road to Heaven. Now if actions A, B, C, D etc etc seem bogus in your eyes, and if you declare the True Church is a false church, then you put yourself on the road to perdition.

The only way we can tell if a church is a false church or if it is the True Church is by studying the Bible and by trying to determine if it upholds the words of Christ and the apostles or if it tramples on them. Yes, but the New Testament doesn't give us any specific guidance on millions of issues and controversies. I mean, suppose a Peruvian judge sentenced an innocent man to 400 years in prison, and suppose anyone with any sense can see the Peruvian judge must be excommunicated, and suppose a church is a false church which leads people to perdition if it gives the bread and the wine to that evil judge. Yes, but if there are 7 billion people outside of Peru who know nothing about the Peruvian judge, then this might be a big problem for 7 billion people. Or suppose a Ukrainian officer commits atrocious war crimes, but then he says he's sorry and claims he is a good Christian who has repented. Then if a church gives him the bread and the wine you get to decide if that church is a false church which leads people to Hell or if it is God's True Church which leads people to Heaven.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bill Etem
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310989797
• Artikelnr.: 48021368

Autorenporträt

Bill EE-tem. Born in Minneapolis, 1. 2.60. 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. Lived in Minnesota, Colorado and South Dakota while growing up. Traveled for 4 months round Europe after graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1983, B.A. in Mathematics.

My fiction often deals with kids who find themselves trapped in dangerous circumstances. They'll just have to brave and resourceful to escape their predicaments.

"Constitutional History of the Western World" has over 500,000 words in it and is filled with important info but it's not exactly succinct. I haven't looked at "The Archangel Michael vs. the Antichrist" in years. "The ABCs of Christianity" is more or less up-to-date. "Glamour Scammers" is my most up-to-date book that is succinct. "Guilty Pleasures" and "Rock Island" try to explain my main points in creative ways.

My religious books argue that Christianity is true, Jesus is God, the Divine Son. But we have a big problem in that 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 conspicuous problem! It's like you are a detective at a crime scene, and you're staring at some clues, but if your main ideas about how the crime went down are contradicted by the most obvious pieces of evidence, then you got a big problem. You know, if you find a corpse with a knife in her back and a cigarette by her head, and if you determine she died from smoking...

We got scriptures which say there is only one True Church, and we got thousands of separate churches / thousands of unique denominations in the world...

Some definitions:

If a Church leads people to Heaven then she 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 what is known as a false church.

How do you find the True Church?

I have some books which deal with that question.