The Myth of Rotisserie Sinners

 

Eternal hell and immortal sinner's torment is a false belief

God is Not a Torturer

Since Rome handed over power to the papacy, people have believed three great lies that have undermined the lives of Christians and attempted to frighten parishioners into the pews (along with their purses). These lies along with a flock of church “traditions” made up whole cloth by the church in order to keep church members under control through fear, cover three basic beliefs that are not supported by the Bible. They are:

1. Thou shalt not surely die. This was Satan’s first lie to Eve. That lie is still believed despite the witness of Scripture through the millenia. Tradition says the soul is immortal and therefore when we wicked folk are pitched into the lake of fire, we chicken fry for all eternity with full consciousness of the pain without it ever lightening up for all eternity. It’s no wonder so many people don’t buy the idea that God is a god of love. Eternal torment is not the act of a loving deity. Hitler wasn’t even that cruel. Jesus himself said “Don't be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who can destroy both body and soul in hell.” (Matthew 10:28) The most memorized text in Christiandom is John 3:16. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life," In plain words this familiar text says that only whoever believes in him will have eternal life. When we die we basically sleep and “know not anything” (Ecclesiastes 9:5). We do not wake again until Christ’s second coming. “We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.” (I Corinthians 15: 51-52) Turns out Colonel Jesus doesn't chicken fry sinners forever.

2. Thou shalt go to church on Sunday. Roman emperor Constantine said he had a dream that putting a cross on the shields of his troops would insure victory against his enemies. So he marched the troops through a nearby river to baptize them all and make them Christians. He legalized Christianity, recognized the pope as an authority, and to make it comfortable for the remaining pagans, declared the Sabbath to now be on “the venerable day of the sun.” In doing this Constantined ignored both the 4^th commandment to “Remember the Sabbath Day” and the command that the day should be the7^th one. Over the ages, Sunday-keeping have come to include football games, yard work and overtime, denying Christians the blessings of a Sabbath rest (shortening life spans according to recent studies of longevity comparing 7^th day sabbath-keepers to mainstream folk.

3. Thou shalt be saved by your works. In the midst of Rome’s attempts to make pagans feel more comfortable with joining the Roman church, the papacy proclaimed (without Biblical support) that priests could forgive sins, sell indulgences, and perform magic (see “transubstantiation as part of the eucharist). This doctrine does away with salvation by faith as the way to heaven and leaves you to slide your rosary beads and perform acts of penance and contrition under the authority of a priest whom they claim can forgive your sins or get you banned from heaven if you upset the church. We are saved in a direct relationship with Christ. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—  not by works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2: 8-9) God forgives us directly. No priest, bishop or pope is the gatekeeper of salvation between us and Him.

When you discover the truth according to the Bible, God comes off as merciful and loving. If you reject God, you die and your life and pain is done. You sleep for eternity. God gives no man power to control whether or not we are saved and given eternal life. God even promises to change you and wash away the uglier parts of your soul – the sort of things you wish you didn’t have to fight because on your own, you’re fighting a losing battle.

It’s and encouraging sign that here at the end of time, the ideas of the sanctity of the seventh-day Sabbath, salvation by grace, and the true state of the dead have begun to challenge toxic Christian traditions openly and it’s not just coming from one denomination. The last movements before Christ comes in the clouds and every eye shall see Him look to be rapid ones. That makes sense for these reasons:

• More people are alive now than have died in all of history. God we are told is a jealous God not willing that any should perish.

• Communication and transportation technology have made it possible to preach the Gospel in every part of the Earth.

• Another spurious doctrine is being challenged – the Jesuit idea of a secret rapture which was infiltrated into Protestant denominations in the 1800s in order to get Protestant reformers to stop saying the pope was the Beast/antichrist.

Lately, I’ve been watching what the preachers of my youth said was coming on the six o’clock news. There are a lot of end-time things covered in Scripture are happening in real time these days. I would recommend that all of us who love the Lord start setting out some extra prayer time.

Even so, come Lord Jesus.

© 2025 by Tom King

Beware the Frumnious Money Snatch - Frauds on Facebook

Beware of a product called Gluco-Revive, hawked by a doubtful doctor with an Australian accent. She claims she's going to show you a 17 day cure for diabetes using just the things in your refrigerator. Red flags went up immediately. It had all the earmarks of an online con. I decided I'd check it out and if it was what I thought it was I would do a blog exposing it for what it is. As I went through the presentation, The classic signs popped up.

1. A doctor, often with a foreign accent begins a sincere-sounding appeal. She's sacrificing herself to help people and the medical establishment and big pharma are out to get him or her.
2. The doc claims you should hurry before big pharma shuts them down. They don't know how long this miraculous cure will be available at this special price. The video may be taken down at any moment.
   
3. After a brief pitch you are directed to a video that will "change your life."
4. The doc claims it's a free treatment using things in your fridge.
   
5. Pretty quickly you see it's going to cost you something green that's not in your fridge. It turns out to be some proprietary bled of herbs nobody has ever tried before but works miracles.
   
6. The video is long and repetitive and keeps baiting you with "in just a few minutes I'll tell you everything."
7. The video wades through accusations against the medical system and big pharma and mentions the names of some companies like Walgreen's and Pfizer.
8. The video claims that specific medications are designed to keep you sick and dependent on it. 
9. When you finally get to the bit where you find out a bottle is NOT $29.99, but $39.99, and a total of  $59.85 with shipping.
10. Watch out for the small print when they put up a second product to clean your gut or something like that. The "I don't want this" link is in small print and if you miss it you get two bottles of gut cleaner for $99 each. In the end you're out $259.85.
11. When you call to cancel the order, they keep offering you cheaper versions of the order you accidentally made and if you demand a refund they tell you it will take 7-10 days to get your money back.
12. The bank can't block the transaction if it was by debit card until the preauthorization is cleared, then the bank has to file a claim to get your money back and that can take another 7-10 days. 

So the company keeps your money for almost 3 weeks. If they scam enough customers, they draw considerable interest on all that the money for 20 days from each customers. And so long as they can keep a well made ad, they can keep a steady stream of cash milked from customers they have conned passing through their bank account. 

It's a dirty rotten practice. I once took a course in writing video scripts for marketing pieces like this. I did a couple of such scripts and gave it up. I researched the products in question and wrote truthful dialogue as best as I could. The client kept correcting me and asking me to put in manipulative text that included false claims, manipulative dialogue and fear-mongering. I found that I just couldn't do it.

And knowing what I know, these subtle frauds managed to deceive me. They stole money from me in exchange for something for all I know is some cheap herbal snake oil cure. I mean the stuff might work really well to stabilize your blood sugar, but I can't get past their business practices. I'd hoped to test the stuff, but not for $59.85 plus 199.85 for something I didn't even want because they hid the I don't want it button.

And Facebook made money off the whole thing. And what's really galling. Mark Zuckerberg has the nerve to get all sanctimonious about community standards.

© 2025 by Tom King