This is a bit of my episode with Drs. Win Corduan and Nace Howell on Mormonism and world religions. Hear the whole episode below. Enjoy.
Penjammin: After describing Mormonism as a religion (so in terms of, less its history but more its theory, I guess you might say) — [There's] its idea of the supernatural. Is it monotheistic or henotheistic or whatever? And then also there's Is it a salvation-oriented religion? And if so, what does salvation entail? (Saved to what? from what?) We talked about that. And then also what's the mechanism? to put crudely. What's the how-to to get right with heaven? … there was some a matter of works involved in some way. So, what does that sound most similar to, for you guys?
Nace: I would say it compares most closely to Islam, as far as world religions are concerned. The reason I would say that it closely compares to it is because of the number of things that we can compare it to. You can compare it to Christianity because it says the word Jesus Christ in its name. But I would say that there are more across-the-board similarities to Islam.
Penjammin: Like what?
Nace: So I wrote about seven of these similarities in my book, and I find that there's more like maybe 25 or 30 similarities. And . . .
Hear more:
- Win's Book: Neighboring Faiths
- Nace's Book: Mormonism: IMPOSSIBLE
- Nace's Blog: Apologetics and Evidence
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