World Religions Under Biblical Examination

World Religions Under Biblical Examination is a Scripture-governed, Christ-centered study of major religions, contemporary worldviews, spiritual counterfeits, and pseudo-Christian movements. Written from a Sola Scriptura perspective, the manuscript equips Christians to understand competing religious claims without misrepresenting their adherents, compromising biblical truth, or surrendering the exclusivity of the gospel. It establishes a theological framework grounded in the authority of Scripture, the Creator–creature distinction, humanity’s fall into sin, the incarnation, Christ’s atoning death and bodily resurrection, salvation by grace through faith, final judgment, and the hope of Christ’s return. Using this framework, the book examines Judaism, Islam, Hindu traditions, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, the Bahá’í Faith, Chinese traditions, Shinto, and African and folk religions. It further evaluates secular humanism, scientism, technocracy, artificial-intelligence religion, transhumanism, New Age spirituality, interfaith convergence, and proposed one-world religion, alongside Roman Catholic claims, Seventh-day Adventism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Scientology, prosperity theology, and other syncretistic systems. Rather than treating comparative religion as detached academic description, the manuscript integrates theological analysis with apologetic, evangelistic, pastoral, and discipleship concerns. It acknowledges ethical insights and potential points of contact within religious traditions while maintaining that sincerity, moral discipline, mystical experience, technological progress, or religious observance cannot reconcile sinners to God apart from Jesus Christ. Particular attention is given to respectful gospel conversations, the pastoral care of converts, the protection of churches from syncretism and another gospel, and the cultivation of spiritual discernment. The book ultimately calls Christians to combine doctrinal firmness with humility, courage with compassion, and watchfulness with holiness, rejecting both contemptuous polemics and relativistic compromise. It presents faithful witness as an urgent responsibility in a religiously plural, technologically mediated, and spiritually deceptive age, urging the Church to remain grounded in Scripture, centered on Christ, active in mission, and prepared for His appearing