The Bible
The Bible is literally, the Book. It is the standard by which all other authoritative historical documents are measured. It is more published and more translated from its original manuscripts than any other writing ever. It was written over a period of 1600 years by 40 people from all walks of life: kings, prophets, priests, and the apostles of Christ Jesus. The Bible has shaped the culture and society of Israel since Moses' time and since its completion prior to 70 A.D., has had an extensive influence on every society.
Well-informed people are diligent to read and understand the Bible, freely available as a translation of the majority text, such as Young's Literal Translation, or a King James translation, for English.
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholic "Church-ianity" isn't properly a Christian institution because it blatantly ignores these basic teachings of Christ contained in the Bible:
- Jesus is the sole intercessorRomans 8:34b
It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. and mediator1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus between God and humanity. Every word and action should be accomplished in the nameColossians 3:17
And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father by him. of Jesus. This excludes prayers to Mary or to other saints, notwithstanding that such are also meaninless repetitionsMatthew 6:7
But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.. - Everyone spiritually-reborn through faith in Christ is ordained by God as priest1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own; that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Jesus emphasized that no one is to supersede God's place by saying to call no man "FatherMatthew 23:9
And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, who is in heaven.". - Mary, a chosen vessel of God, was a sinful human the same as you and I. Jael, who killed SiseraSisera (Heb. סִיסְרָא)
commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor. After defeat at the hands of Israel's Zebulun and Naphtali under the command of Barak and Deborah, an exhausted Sisera fled and was killed by Jael, who hammered a tent peg into his temple after giving him a bowl of warm milk., was in fact the most blessedJudges 5:24
Most blessed among women is Jael, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed is she among women in tents. among women. After giving birth to Jesus, Mary was ceremonially uncleanLuke 2:22
Now when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord according to Moses' law. Joseph and Mary had several other childrenMatthew 13:55
Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? by natural procreation after Jesus was born. - Jesus is both the builderHebrews 3:3
for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it and foundationIsaiah 28:16
So this is what the Lord GOD says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken." of the Church. This truth that Jesus Christ is the rock that the Church is foundedMatthew 16:18
I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. on was clearly understood1 Peter 2:5
and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. by Peter, although even after being restored to fellowship by Jesus after denying the Christ three times, he would withdraw from the Gentile believers he had been associating with when men from James came down from Jerusalem. He had to be rebukedGalatians 2:11
But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, for what he did was very wrong. for this error by the apostle Paul, as it did not recognize Jesus as the head of the Church. Peter was also married1 Corinthians 9:5
Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas? (Peter), a small but important fact that Catholicism should note! - Roman Catholicism elevates its man-made traditionsMark 7:13
Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters. to the level of Scripture, which hinders many from enjoying free access to God. It pretends to be a dispenser of salvation when really it is a deceptive monstrosity that can offer no assurance of eternal life. - The body and blood of Christ were offered onceHebrews 7:27
who hath no necessity daily, as the chief priests, first for his own sins to offer up sacrifice, then for those of the people; for this He did once, having offered up Himself to God, and were accepted as sufficient to take away the sin of the World. Every mass is therefore a blasphemous display of re-offering Jesus, relugating the Creator-Saviour to a place of impotence and reinforcing reliance on Mary and many other idolized saints.
Islam
According to Islam, the one God is Allah, and Mohammed was his prophet. But not even Mohammed was confident that all his sins were forgiven, as is recorded in the most reliable of hadiths. To this day, Muslims, add "Peace be upon him" after every mention his name because of this uncertainty.
One of the challenges of Islam is that if anyone could make a book comparable to the Qu'ran, then it too would be considered as divine. However the Qu'ran was revealed to only one man. Its origin is not supported by multiple witnesses as other reliable documents are. There's this other guy, Joseph Smith, who made a comparable book...
One of the core teachings of Islam is that God cannot take human form. This eliminates any possiblity of a divine sacrifice atoning for human sin. According to the Quran, Allah is all-merciful, but he is also distant and not in a position to redeem a sinful humanity.
Pride Movement
The pride movement is tremendously anti-God and anti-Bible. It has great selling power, as does anything that appeals to human pride. It mis-appropriates symbols and words with rich history and meaning, undermining the foundation of society. It says that everyone has the authority to define their own truth, when the reality is that only God has the authority to do so. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but everyone is responsible to do their own research into history to make sound conclusions. Historically, every nation that has denied God, has fallen. The God mentioned in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the same one alluded to in our national anthem, the one who is supreme, the one who enables the proper ordering of society. The pride movement will be self-defeating because it brings deep disorder and confusion.
Evolution
Evolution with a capital E is the idea that all life gradually developed from a single cell over millions of years to all the forms of life we see today. This idea is not supported by the fossil record, or by experimention or observation, so it has no predictive or engineering value. The only use of Evolution appears to be to convince fools that there isn't a Creator-God to whom they must give account.
All living organisms are built from the irreducibly complex information contained in their genes. In the same way that the blueprints for a car factory and the subsequent building construction and assembly of automobiles and the accompanying mining and other material sourcing logistics involves a small degree of complex information, a single-celled organism involves a much higher degree of sophistication. It is not reasonable to assume that any single-celled organism, for example an amoeba, could ever breed anything other than more amoebas. This is because amoebas lack the necessary genetic information to produce anything other than more amoebas. In fact, all organisms have only ever reproduced according to the information contained in their genes. Because the proposed mechanisms for Evolution can act only on pre-existing information, and do not create viable new information on the order that would be required for Evolution to happen, even with millions or billions of supposed intervening years, Evolution is not a matter of science, but one of compounded infinitesimal probabilities that no one has ever witnessed or reported on. The probability of supernatural events that people did witness and report on, such as Jesus taking a stroll on the Sea of Galilee, or a donkey rebuking a prophet, is far greater than that of Evolution ever occuring.
The non-capitalized word "evolution" refers to any process of change or development, which applies to the biological process of gene selection. The selection of pre-existing genetic information, whether natural or guided by humans, is an observable and very useful phenomenon. It is understood through genetic research.