import Divider from "@/components/Divider"; import Quote from "@/components/Quote"; import Callout from "@/components/Callout"; # **✦ THE BUILDER'S CATECHISM ✦** ### _A Systematic Q&A for Builders, Fathers, Reformers & Civilisation-Carriers_ Short. Sharp. Doctrinal. Uncompromising. This is the distilled creed of **The Canon**. # **I. FOUNDATIONS - PURPOSE, PERSON, ORDER** **Q1. What is the purpose of man?** A. To live in surrendered alignment with God's order, steward creation with righteousness, and build what outlives him. **Q2. What is the first law of civilisation?** A. Order. Without order, nothing flourishes. **Q3. What begins all disorder?** A. The collapse of identity. **Q4. What is the foundation of identity?** A. The truth of who God is and who you are under Him. **Q5. What is alignment?** A. The harmony of identity, purpose, values, behaviour, and structure. # **II. THE PERSON - CHARACTER, DISCIPLINE & AGENCY** **Q6. What is the greatest threat to destiny?** A. Undisciplined desire. **Q7. What is character?** A. [Integrity](/lexicon/integrity) under pressure. **Q8. What is discipline?** A. The mastery of self through repeated obedience to truth. **Q9. What is agency?** A. The power to act under the weight of responsibility. **Q10. What destroys agency?** A. Blame, victimhood, entitlement, and moral drift. # **III. THE FAMILY - THE FIRST INSTITUTION** **Q11. What is the family?** A. The first government, first school, first church, and first nation. **Q12. What is a father?** A. Priest, protector, provider, prophet, and pattern for generations. **Q13. What destroys families?** A. The breakdown of honour, order, and covenant. # **IV. INSTITUTIONS - MEMORY & CONTINUITY** **Q14. What are institutions?** A. Systems that preserve identity across generations. **Q15. What kills institutions?** A. Drift, corruption, incompetence, and cowardice. **Q16. What saves institutions?** A. Truth, accountability, structure, standards, and courage. # **V. THE NATION - IDENTITY, BORDERS, DESTINY** **Q17. What is a nation?** A. A people bound by memory, land, culture, story, and purpose. **Q18. Why do borders matter?** A. Borders protect identity and sovereignty. **Q19. What destroys nations?** A. Historical amnesia, moral decay, cultural fragmentation, and weak families. # **VI. CIVILISATION - RISE, PEAK, DECAY, RENEWAL** **Q20. How do civilisations rise?** A. Through virtue, order, truth, and strong families. **Q21. How do civilisations collapse?** A. Through indulgence, corruption, forgetting God, and institutional rot. **Q22. Can a civilisation be renewed?** A. Yes - through repentance, reform, and returning to truth. # **VII. POWER - AUTHORITY, JUSTICE & STEWARDSHIP** **Q23. What is power?** A. The ability to shape reality responsibly. **Q24. What makes power dangerous?** A. Power reveals the truth of a person's character. **Q25. What restrains corrupt power?** A. Just authority, strong institutions, righteous law. # **VIII. DESTINY - SOVEREIGNTY & AGENCY** **Q26. What is destiny?** A. Divine design meeting human obedience. **Q27. Does destiny guarantee outcome?** A. No. Destiny must be stewarded with discipline. **Q28. What is the greatest enemy of destiny?** A. Self-sabotage - through disorder, fear, pride, and unbelief. # **IX. THE BUILDER - THE ONE WHO RISES AGAINST THE DRIFT** **Q29. Who is the Builder?** A. The one who refuses decay, restores order, and shapes the world with eternity in mind. **Q30. What is the Builder's Pledge?** A. To live with truth, guard what is sacred, strengthen what is weak, and build what time cannot break. This is the creed of the Canon. This is the spine of the Builder. # **Share This With a Builder** If you know one person ready to rise above the drift - **share this catechism** with them.