ALL RELIGIOUS CREEDS ARE VOID BUT SOME MORE THAN OTHERS!
Bahai'sm is an offshoot of Islam that seeks to unite all world religions. It
was founded by manifestations of God notably Baha’u’llah. Baha'u'llah proved
that he was not a manifestation when he insanely thought he could promote unity
among the world religions by founding a new one that takes bits out of every
religion and which turns Krishna, Jesus and Buddha into manifestations of God
though they all contradicted one another. And it's a strange way of uniting
religion to make another religion! Christianity cannot water down its view that
Jesus was the only manifestation of God and who proved it by coming back from
the dead and yet this cult claims to be compatible with Christianity. If the
other manifestations, Buddha, Krishna, Moses and Jesus were really from God and
interested in uniting people, then why did they form different sects with each
one contradicting the other?
Buddha the founder of Buddhism was a fanatic who advocated a difficult and
boring life in order to make sure you are not reincarnated. He never stopped to
consider that if there is no life after death this is a waste of time and one
might as well live it up within reason. He accused all desire of being something
that we must get rid of. But manipulated the right way, desire can make your
life fun and more interesting.
The word Catholic means universal. It refers to the fact that the one true
Church must invite all nations to become part of it. Christ implied the Church
must be Catholic when he told it to make disciples of all nations. To be
universal the Church must be primarily one in faith for what is divided by
confusion and heresy can’t be for everybody. The Church would need a clear and
fixed message to be really universal. To be universal the Church has to have one
government - that is to say, it has to be one Church. So to be Catholic, the
Church has to be one, united. It has to be holy, that is dedicated to God and
what God has revealed. It needs some kind of authority then to preserve this
revelation intact. If the apostles received the completeness of God’s word, and
the Church says they did, then the Church has to be apostolic. So there are four
marks of the one true Church as expressed in the Nicene Creed, “I believe in
one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church.” This creed is a manifestation of the
infallibility or protection against error that the Church supposedly enjoys.
The Roman Catholic Church claims to meet this one, holy, Catholic and apostolic
model. This Church is not one for it is divided on matters of faith. It is
really like a collection of faiths under the Roman Catholic umbrella.
The mark of oneness has more to do with unity in mind and heart than with
organisational unity. Plus Protestants are thought to belong to the Catholic
Church by virtue of their baptism. That’s not unity. The unity of the Church is
artificial so the Church is not Catholic. Plus there is the idea of automatic
excommunication in which you commit a sin that secretly puts you out of the
Church, such as, abortion, schism, heresy and apostasy and others. That means
you will have many Catholics who are visibly Catholics but who are not Catholics
at all. The Church also says that those who die in invincible ignorance desiring
to be with God even if they are not Christians have become members of the
Church. That denies the doctrine of the one visible Church. The true Church is
not confined to the visible Church so the visible Church then is not necessarily
the true Church. The Church is not one. It is missing the main mark.
The true Church should be united. It does not really matter if a false religion
is divided. If you can have one con around why not another? Catholics ignore the
fact that it is not the Church being one that is important but that it should be
one. For example, the modern day Catholic Church claims to be the one true
unerring faith but this isn’t true for it has altered many doctrines.
Traditionalist Catholics can tell you about many of these changes which is why
they have declared the current Catholic system led by Rome to be the Vatican Two
Conciliar Sect not the Catholic Church. The modern Catholic Church is not fully
the Catholic faith so its oneness means nothing. A sect standing by the old
doctrines would be the true Church and the Roman Catholic Church continuing.
The Protestant view that despite Christian's disagreements and divisions they
are one spiritual family as long as they carry God’s love in their hearts and
that this family is the one true Church is more plausible than the Catholic
view.
The Catholic Church isn’t holy for its teaching is often ridiculous and
dangerous and it has corrupted the legacy of Jesus and the apostles by adding
doctrines they never knew to the faith so it is not apostolic. For example,
Jesus told the Jews that they must not divorce. The Jews engaged in arranged
marriages involving men and girls who were virtually children. Jesus' teaching
accepts these forced unions with children. That shows that the Catholic Church
is heretical to allow annulments when the bride is a child or forced.
The Catholic Church isn’t Catholic for babies who won’t be brought up as
Catholics are not welcome for baptism and women can’t become priests. Only the
right Church would have the right to be called Catholic and the Roman Catholic
doctrine is full of lies and errors.
There has to be something unique about the term Catholic. If any sect at all
even atheistic ones can call themselves Catholic, then there is nothing special
about being a universal faith so it is not a mark of any kind at all. A religion
that errs is excluding people who know it is wrong so it is not Catholic and it
is not open to all people. Being universal or open to all is not as important as
being right. The reasoning of Rome that as the Church is Catholic that is one of
the signs that it is true makes no sense. It is really saying that whatever is
true is Catholic and since the Church is Catholic the Church is true. That is
incorrect logic.
Catholicism is just another man-made faith.
Hinduism is a tradition more than a religion. It allows you to be an Atheist
as long as you follow the traditions. That is fine but all Hindus then should
become Atheists and enjoy life without the burden of supernatural beliefs. The
caste system of Hinduism is a great evil for it treats many people as dirt just
because they were born into the “lowest” class. They are accused of having
committed great sins in a past life thus deserving this treatment.
The word Islam means submission to God. The religion was founded by the Prophet
Muhammad. He gave the world the Koran which was written down after his death.
This book, though it claims to be the perfect word of God, gives no evidence of
supernatural origin. It never predicts the future though such predictions are
the only sure mark that a book is from God who alone knows the future. You could
write a clearer and more uplifting book than the Koran in the name of God so it
would be fairer for this new book to be taken for the real word of God.
The Koran is alleged to be a perfect work of written art. It's "divine" author
Allah says that. But if you read it you see many mistakes, such as lack of
clarity, and you will sometimes meet a piece of it in one place and a similar
version of it in another - bad editing. It accuses Christians of making a Holy
Trinity of God, Jesus and Mary which is false. The trinity is the Father, Son
and Holy Spirit. Mary wasn't even as important in the Church at that time as she
is now. So it is hard to make an excuse for this gross error.
Jehovah's Witnesses comprise an American Christian Fundamentalist sect that
follows the New World Translation of the Bible. This Bible is a travesty of the
standard text of the Bible and has been adulterated to back up the sect’s
peculiar beliefs. They deny that Jesus was God and reject his bodily
resurrection. The cult has fallen prey to fanaticism in its absolute opposition
to blood transfusion. The fact that this teaching does not murder as many today
thanks to alternatives to blood transfusion makes no difference for they would
still kill by their teaching if these alternatives were unavailable. And like
all bad religion, the more converts it gets the more people suffer and die.
Mormonism is the religion founded by Joseph Smith Jun in 1830. He claimed that
he translated a new scripture The Book of Mormon from golden plates that he dug
up in a hill. Eleven witnesses had a vision of the plates. Their evidence was
totally pointless because there is evidence in the book itself that it is not
the word of God. For example, it makes prophecies and not one of them has been
convincingly fulfilled. Those that did come true came true through luck. Yet
Smith’s translation of the Bible (Deuteronomy 18) declared that the highest
standards while giving revelation from God will be followed by a true prophet.
Basically, if a prophet gets all his predictions right but one he is still to be
regarded as a fraud despite the miraculous knowledge of the future.
Moses is the reputed author of the first five books of the Bible which
comprise the Law which was allegedly instituted by God.
The Prophet Moses was an evil man who demanded in the name of God that
adulterers and homosexuals be stoned to death. To say the Old Testament is the
word of God is to side with God despite the murders he said he commanded through
Moses. Though Moses demanded the highest standards in working out who was really
a prophet of God: agreement with the word already given and predicting the
future without error, he never left any fulfilled predictions behind that would
prove that he could keep up to the standard. To reject Moses is to deny the
divine origin of Judaism and the pretended fulfilment of Judaism, Christianity.
It is to deny the divine sonship of Jesus Christ for Jesus said Moses really was
a prophet of God and that Moses' writings were his credentials.
Judaism is the default faith. Christianity started among Jews who changed the
Jewish religion. If they had no right to then we should become Jews. For this
reason alone, the Christians must allow the Jews to commit the executions as God
commanded. Having faith that Christianity is true is not a licence for refusing
to play it safe.
The Protestants belong to Christian Churches that separated from Roman
Catholicism at the time of the Reformation though their faith was certainly
around long before then in the form of the Waldensians, Hussites and
Wycliffites. They teach that the Bible alone is the word of God. They teach that
salvation is not by faith and good works and sacraments like you have it in the
Catholic Church but by grace (God’s doing) alone. When you trust in God that he
has washed away your sins in the blood of Christ that is a sign that grace has
saved you. God then will inspire you and help you to do good works. This is a
sign too that God has saved you and chosen you for salvation in Heaven. Many
Protestants say that nothing, no sin or anything, can take your heavenly destiny
away from you once you are saved. They teach that you are made righteous by
faith in the sense that when you believe by the power of God your salvation is
activated. Faith is not a good work that earns salvation. They teach salvation
by faith alone without good works.
The Protestant God is obviously condoning the sins of believers. Jesus may pay
but as far as we experience it, which is what counts, our sins are being
condoned. The Catholic God does the same when you can go straight to Heaven
after committing billions of venial sins if somebody has got indulgences for you
to cancel the punishment due to them. A God that rewards sin is not a God but a
hypocrite. The fruits of Christianity prove that Jesus was not the Son of God
for he was the one that said the work of God always brings good fruit.
To teach that faith alone saves is to deny that human beings matter. It teaches
that dogma matters more than people for you cannot be saved by saving a life but
you can be saved by trusting in dogmas. It is a lie that it is not dogmas but
God a person that is trusted for if there is no God then it follows that it is
dogmas. We don’t know for sure if there is a God and less sure if God really
saves this way so it is dogma.
Paul wrote in his divinely inspired scripture that obeying the law of God cannot
save or justify, put you right with God, because the law gives knowledge of what
sin is (Romans 3:20). In other words, the law saves nobody for they cannot keep
it. Then he writes that God has had to save us without the law by faith. He
means faith alone for he already said why obedience to God can’t save.
The Bible is a Protestant book. The Bible is an evil book for it is attractive
to those who want to be saved but not from their sins. Protestantism is perfect
for people like that with its doctrine that Jesus died on the cross so that you
could sin with impunity.