One of the great contradictions of religious institutions is their appeal to human reason while simultaneously using it to establish doctrines that contradict the very Word of God. They claim that great theologians and church councils, using their God-given intellect, have uncovered divine truths beyond what Scripture reveals. But this argument collapses under its own weight—if reason itself is from God, then true reason cannot contradict His revealed Word. And if a doctrine is nowhere found in Scripture, then no amount of human reasoning can make it true.
God alone is the source of truth. Isaiah 55:8-9 reminds us:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Human reason is a gift from God, designed to help us understand what He has revealed—not to invent new doctrines that contradict His Word. If reason is of God, then it must be subject to God. True wisdom aligns with divine revelation, not human authority. If a doctrine requires human councils, theological speculation, or institutional decree to exist, then it is not from God but from men.
God’s Word is the ultimate standard by which all reasoning must be tested:
“The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” (Psalm 119:130)
If something is not in Scripture, it is not divine truth. It is human philosophy, and nothing more.
Unbiblical Doctrines Fail the Test of Reason
If we apply this simple test to many of the doctrines upheld by religious institutions, they immediately fall apart. Take, for example, the Assumption of Mary—the belief that Mary was taken bodily into heaven.
Scripture says nothing about this event.
None of the apostles recorded it, not even Peter.
There is no prophecy, no teaching, and no divine command that supports it.
So where did it come from? The reasoning of men, centuries after Christ, was elevated above divine revelation. But if human reasoning is truly from God, it would never lead us to a doctrine that God Himself never spoke. If God intended us to believe this, He would have revealed it plainly. The very absence of this teaching in Scripture is proof of its falsehood.
The same logic applies to papal authority—the idea that one man is the infallible ruler of the Church. If reason is of God, then it cannot contradict God's own revelation. But Scripture nowhere grants a single man supreme authority over the Church.
Peter, whom the papacy claims as its foundation, never called himself a pope.
He never claimed infallibility—in fact, Paul rebuked him for hypocrisy (Galatians 2:11-14).
He referred to all believers as a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9)—a direct contradiction to the idea that priestly authority belongs to a select few.
So if reason comes from God, why would it lead men to believe in an authority structure God never ordained? The only answer is that this is not divine reason, but human reasoning corrupted by the desire for power.
Man’s Reason Without God Becomes a Tool for Power
Religious institutions do not use reason to seek truth—they use it to establish control. Doctrines like the Assumption of Mary, papal authority, purgatory, and indulgences do not arise from the natural outworking of reason, but from the deliberate twisting of it. These doctrines serve a purpose: to bind people not to Christ, but to institutions that claim to speak for Him.
If the pope can declare himself infallible, then his words override God’s. If salvation is dispensed through the sacraments, then the Church controls access to God. If indulgences and purgatory exist, then people must depend on religious leaders for eternal security.
These doctrines do not emerge from logic grounded in truth but from reason wielded as a weapon—not to lead people to Christ, but to bind them to the authority of men.
But Christ Himself rejected such power structures:
“The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.” (Luke 22:25-26)
The Kingdom of God is not an empire, and faith is not submission to a political-religious system. Truth is not decreed by councils—it is revealed by God.
True Reason Aligns With Revelation, Not Religion
The ultimate test of reason is whether it aligns with God’s Word. If a doctrine is not found in Scripture, it is not a product of true reason, but of corrupt reason—a reason detached from its Creator. True reason does not build religious empires or bind men to systems of control. True reason bows before the authority of God’s Word.
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” (John 17:17)
Religious leaders have long wielded reason as a tool to justify their own rule, to twist doctrine, and to elevate human authority above divine revelation. But this is not reason as God intended—it is arrogance masquerading as wisdom. If reason is from God, then no doctrine can be true unless God Himself has spoken it.
This is the folly of believing in unbiblical doctrines: they claim divine wisdom, yet they contradict divine revelation. They claim truth, yet they require deception to sustain them. They claim to lead to God, yet they replace His voice with the voices of men.
The only safe foundation is the Word of God alone.
“Let God be true, but every man a liar.” (Romans 3:4)
The question remains: Will we trust the wisdom of men, or the eternal wisdom of God.
Let me explain a little deeper:
The claim that human reasoning can establish doctrine apart from divine revelation is self-defeating. True reason must be grounded in truth, and truth—by its very nature—must originate from its ultimate source. If God is the author of reason, then any doctrine that He has not revealed cannot be reason at all. It is merely speculation masquerading as wisdom.
This exposes a fundamental contradiction: religious institutions claim that their doctrines are derived from human reasoning, yet they assert them as absolute truths that demand faith and obedience. But reason alone cannot create truth; it can only discover what already exists. And if God did not reveal a doctrine, then human minds did not "discover" it—they invented it.
For a doctrine to be true, it must be grounded in reality—not in the authority of those who declare it. Yet, religious institutions elevate human authority as if it has the power to create truth simply by decree. But authority does not determine truth—truth determines authority.
A man can declare himself king, but unless he has legitimate rule, his claim is meaningless.
A scientist can make a claim about the universe, but if it does not align with reality, it is mere theory, not fact.
A religious leader can proclaim a doctrine, but if it is not grounded in revelation, it is not knowledge—it is assumption.
The assumption of religious authority over doctrine is built on a false premise: that because men have the capacity to reason, they have the right to define divine truth. But reasoning, if disconnected from revelation, is nothing more than an intellectual exercise without an anchor.
Truth is not something that can be voted into existence by councils or proclaimed into being by theological reasoning. Truth is either revealed or unknown—but it is never created by man.
This is where religious institutions expose their fatal error. They argue that certain doctrines—such as the assumption of Mary, papal authority, or purgatory—are the result of careful theological reasoning over centuries. But this is an impossibility. If something were true, it would have been true from the beginning—not developed over time.
For example:
The principles of mathematics existed before they were understood. No one "created" the laws of physics—they simply revealed what was already there.
Historical events are not subject to revision. Something either happened or it didn’t. No amount of reasoning can change the past.
Divine truth is no different. If God did not reveal it, then it does not exist as truth. No council or theologian can reason a doctrine into being if God Himself did not establish it.
To claim otherwise is to claim co-authorship with God—to believe that human minds can complete what divine wisdom has supposedly left unfinished. This is not reasoning; it is arrogance disguised as intellect.
If reason cannot create truth, why do religious institutions insist on doctrines that have no foundation in divine revelation? Because these doctrines are not about truth at all—they are about control.
If an institution can invent doctrine, it can command faith.
If it can command faith, it can wield power.
If it can wield power, it can rule not just the minds, but the lives of men.
By declaring that reason alone can establish doctrine, religious institutions position themselves as the final authority, rather than God. They make themselves the gatekeepers of truth, even when that truth does not exist outside their own decrees.
But power is not proof of truth. A lie told by a powerful institution is still a lie. No matter how long it is believed, no matter how many men endorse it, no matter how many generations pass under its influence, a doctrine not revealed by God is not doctrine at all. It is religious fiction.
Reason Must Bow to Reality
True reasoning does not begin with what men want to be true, but with what is true. It does not seek to create truth, but to align with it.
If a doctrine is real, it will exist independent of human approval.
If a doctrine is true, it will require no defense beyond its own reality.
If a doctrine is divine, it will originate from God, not from theological reasoning.
A man can reason that he is immortal, but his body will still decay. A council can declare a falsehood as doctrine, but time will not turn fiction into fact. The mind can rationalize anything—but reality remains unmoved by human reasoning.
And if divine truth is real, then it is not formed by the minds of men. It is revealed by the One who is Truth itself.
This is the foundation of doctrines like the Assumption of Mary, Papal Authority, and the Perpetual Virginity of Mary—ideas that were not revealed by God but developed by men through theological speculation.
If a doctrine is true, then it must be grounded in divine revelation, because only God defines divine truth. Anything else is mere intellectual construction, subject to error, bias, and manipulation. Truth is not reasoned into existence—it is revealed or it is not truth at all.
These doctrines, though widely accepted, collapse under this scrutiny.
Let’s examine why each one is logically impossible to be divine truth.
At the core of religious deception lies a crucial error: the belief that human reasoning, unaided by divine revelation, can create truth. This is the foundation of doctrines like the Assumption of Mary, Papal Authority, the Perpetual Virginity of Mary, Indulgences, and countless other man-made traditions—ideas that were not revealed by God but developed by men through theological speculation.
If a doctrine is true, then it must be grounded in divine revelation, because only God defines divine truth. Anything else is mere intellectual construction, subject to error, bias, and manipulation. Truth is not reasoned into existence—it is revealed or it is not truth at all.
These doctrines, though widely accepted, collapse under this scrutiny.
The Assumption of Mary—the belief that she was taken bodily into heaven—was not proclaimed as official Catholic doctrine until 1950 by Pope Pius XII. Yet, for nearly 2,000 years, not a single piece of divine revelation confirms such an event. If God intended this to be a truth, why was it not revealed from the beginning? If such a monumental event occurred, why was it not recorded by those closest to her? If no apostle, disciple, or early follower of Christ mentioned it, how can it be rationally accepted as divine revelation?
It cannot.
The only reason people believe this doctrine is because it was declared by an institution, not revealed by God. Theological reasoning attempted to fill in the silence of Scripture and history by assuming that since Mary was "holy", she must have been taken into heaven in a unique way. But that is not reasoning grounded in divine revelation—it is speculation based on assumption.
A doctrine that appears out of nowhere, centuries after Christ, is evidence of human fabrication, not divine truth. If it were true, God would have revealed it from the beginning.
The idea that one man—called the pope—holds supreme authority over the Church, possesses infallibility, and speaks on behalf of God is another doctrine entirely built on theological reasoning rather than revelation. No divine instruction ever established a pope. No apostle, including Peter, ever claimed supreme authority over all believers. No divine revelation ever stated that one man could declare doctrine infallibly.
The doctrine of Papal Authority is not a result of God speaking—it is a result of men seeking power.
What happened? As the Roman Empire collapsed, the Church in Rome sought to assert dominance over the rest of Christianity. Instead of divine revelation, political necessity shaped this doctrine. Theological arguments were constructed after the fact to justify what had already been decided by men.
True divine authority does not require human reasoning to establish itself. It simply is. If Christ had appointed a single man as the supreme ruler of the Church, that truth would have been evident from the very beginning—not rationalized centuries later to justify an earthly hierarchy.
If a doctrine is not revealed but must be reasoned into existence, it is a doctrine of men, not of God.
The idea that Mary remained a virgin her entire life is another doctrine based not on divine revelation but on the assumption that this must be the case. There is no revelation that states Mary remained a virgin after Jesus' birth. Theological reasoning assumes she must have, because it fits their view of purity. But reason without revelation does not create truth—it only creates belief based on assumption.
However:
If Mary's perpetual virginity were truth, then God would have revealed it. Since it was not revealed, men used theological reasoning to argue that it must be true based on their own assumptions about holiness. But holiness is not defined by men—it is revealed by God.
The belief in Mary’s perpetual virginity arises not from revelation, but from human reasoning shaped by cultural ideas of purity, celibacy, and religious elitism. If divine truth can only be known through revelation, then this doctrine cannot be truth—because it was never revealed by God.
One of the most blatant fabrications of religious institutions is the doctrine of indulgences—the idea that forgiveness of sins or a reduction in time spent in purgatory can be granted through monetary payments, good works, or special prayers authorized by the Church. This is not only absent from divine revelation, but it fundamentally contradicts the very nature of grace and forgiveness.
If forgiveness or purification could be purchased, then it ceases to be grace. If a religious institution has the power to dispense mercy in exchange for something, then that mercy is no longer a divine gift—it is a commodity. And if God's forgiveness can be bought and sold, then the very foundation of faith collapses into nothing more than a transactional system of religious control.
The concept of indulgences was not given by God; it was devised by men as a tool of manipulation and financial gain. The moment men claim to control access to God’s mercy, they reveal their true motives—not to serve God, but to serve their own power.
Purgatory is another doctrine that was not revealed by God, but was instead developed by men to reinforce religious control. The idea that after death, souls must go through an intermediate state of purification before entering heaven is completely absent from divine revelation.
If such a place existed, why was it never revealed in the beginning? Why was it never spoken of in divine truth? Why does it conveniently function in a way that benefits religious institutions—allowing indulgences, prayers, and Masses to be offered in exchange for relief? The answer is clear: it is not a revealed truth; it is a manufactured belief system designed to control people through fear.
A doctrine that exists for the sake of religious power, rather than divine truth, is not truth at all.
The Inescapable Conclusion: Man-Made Doctrines are Not Truth
Every doctrine must pass a simple test:
Was it revealed by God?Or was it reasoned into existence by men?
If it was not revealed, then it is not truth. It is simply an intellectual construct—a human attempt to define what only God can define.
The Assumption of Mary was not revealed—it was reasoned into existence centuries after Christ.
Papal Authority was not revealed—it was politically manufactured and justified with later reasoning.
The Perpetual Virginity of Mary was not revealed—it was assumed based on theological ideals rather than divine truth.
Indulgences were not revealed—they were created as a way to monetize grace.
Purgatory was not revealed—it was invented to instill fear and ensure religious dependence.
If God has not spoken it, then no amount of reasoning makes it true.
To accept doctrines that have no divine revelation is to surrender truth to human imagination. It is to replace God’s authority with human intellect.
And that is not faith—it is submission to an institution rather than to the divine truth of God.
Truth does not need to be invented. It only needs to be revealed.
2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
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