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| {{Resource Title|Do Latter-day Saints believe that members of other religions can receive a spiritual witness that their own teachings are true?}}
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| Latter-day Saints claim to be able to confirm the truth of their religion through a direct spiritual witness from God.
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| *Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive?
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| *Do all other major religions in the world also use a "spiritual witness" to confirm the truthfulness of their beliefs?
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| |publication=Preach My Gospel: A Guide to Missionary Service
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| |title=Lesson 1: The Message of the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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| |link=https://www.lds.org/manual/preach-my-gospel-a-guide-to-missionary-service/lesson-1-the-message-of-the-restoration-of-the-gospel-of-jesus-christ?lang=eng
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| |summary=Just as the Christian world was blessed by the courage and vision of the reformers, many other nations and cultures have been blessed by those who were given that portion “that [God] seeth fit that they should have” (Alma 29:8). Teachings of other religious leaders have helped many people become more civil and ethical.
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| Buddha (Gotama): Born in 563 B.C. of a Hindu chieftain in Nepal. Concerned with the suffering he saw around him. Fled from his father’s luxurious palace, renounced the world, and lived in poverty. Seeking enlightenment, he discovered what he called the “path of deliverance.” Claimed to reach Nirvana, a state of oblivion to care, pain, or external reality. Became a teacher for a community of monks.
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| Confucius: Born in 551 B.C. Orphaned as a child. China’s first professional teacher. China’s greatest moral and social thinker. Said little about spiritual beings or divine powers. Believed that heaven had entrusted him with a sacred mission as champion of the good and true.
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| Mohammed: Born in 570 A.D. in Mecca. Orphaned in childhood. Lived a life of poverty. Gained reputation as a trusted peacemaker. Married at age 25. In 610 prayed and meditated on Mount Hira. Said the angel Gabriel appeared to him and delivered a message from Allah (God). Claimed to receive communication from God through Gabriel from 620 to 632. These communications, which he recited to his disciples, were later written in the Koran, the sacred book of Islam.
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| {{:Question: Do Mormons believe that other religions can be inspired by God?}}
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| {{:Question: Do other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness?}}
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| {{:Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive?}}
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| {{:Source:Joseph Smith:History of the Church:1843:I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination}}
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