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28322
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English
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Mormon Views of Religious Resemblances
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Mormonism : A Faith for all Cultures
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Provo, UT
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BYU Press
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185-207
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Each of the five Mormon views elaborated here provides useful and meaningful insights into questions of religious resemblances. But none of them covers the whole ground alone, and all of them together fall short of explaining all such parallels. My own feeling is that only
inspiration from the lord can provide the answers as to which of these five possibilities should be dominant in a particular case. Regardless of
the relative importance of each of the five in a particular setting, we must decide from a tactical point of view whether the work of the
church will be more effective if we emphasize the diabolic nature of the similarities between the gospel and the native faiths, or if we emphasize the heritage of the pre-earth life, or of the light of Christ or of a partially accurate deposit of faith and truth from ancient times, or of whatever else. But this much is certain, the view one takes has
important implications for the future of the Church.