Every major religion in the world makes claims about God, man, sin, salvation, and eternity. Most of those claims are irreconcilable with one another — and all of them are irreconcilable with the Gospel of sovereign grace as revealed in the Holy Scriptures. These comparisons are produced not in a spirit of hostility toward any person, but out of a conviction that souls are at stake and that truth matters.
Each comparison presents the doctrine of the religion in question alongside what the Bible actually teaches, topic by topic. The Scripture alone is the standard. Doctrine is drawn from the official sources of each religion — their own texts, creeds, and confessions — and compared with the King James Bible.
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A thorough comparison covering the papacy, purgatory, Mary, the Mass, justification, sacraments, and assurance of salvation.
Islam denies the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the crucifixion, and substitutionary atonement. This comparison shows what the Qur’an teaches against what the Bible teaches.
Modern Judaism rejects Jesus as Messiah and the New Testament as Scripture. This comparison examines what both the Torah and the whole Bible say about atonement, the Messiah, and salvation.
The LDS Church teaches that God was once a man, that Jesus is the spirit-brother of Lucifer, and that faithful Mormons will become gods. Scripture says otherwise on every point.
The Watchtower Society denies the Trinity, Christ’s eternal deity, the personality of the Holy Spirit, and the existence of hell. Their New World Translation deliberately alters Scripture.
Buddhism denies a personal God, teaches that the self is an illusion, and offers liberation through meditation and self-effort across countless rebirths. Scripture says otherwise on every point.
Hinduism offers many paths to liberation, teaches that the self is ultimately identical with ultimate reality, and has no doctrine of sin as guilt before a holy God.
SDA adds Ellen White’s writings as near-inspired, teaches an ongoing investigative judgment since 1844, denies conscious existence after death, and requires Saturday worship.
Orthodoxy places Tradition co-equal with Scripture, understands salvation as theosis (deification), venerates icons, and makes the sacraments necessary channels of grace.
The Baháʻí Faith teaches that all world religions are one, that Baháʻuʻlláh is the latest divine manifestation superseding Christ, and that salvation is spiritual development.
A syncretic blend of Taoism, Buddhism, and folk belief involving ancestor veneration, deity worship, and ritual management of the spirit world to secure earthly blessings.
Taoism teaches that the Tao is an impersonal, ineffable principle underlying all things, that salvation is harmony with nature through non-action, and that there is no personal God to be reconciled to.
Confucianism is a social and moral philosophy with no doctrine of salvation, no personal God, and a belief in human perfectibility through education and ritual observance.
Shinto venerates countless kami in nature and ancestors, focuses on ritual purity rather than moral sin, and historically taught that the Japanese Emperor was a living god descended from the sun goddess.
Native American traditions acknowledge the Great Spirit and a spirit-filled creation, but lack a doctrine of sin as guilt before a holy God, substitutionary atonement, or salvation through a Saviour.
Australian Aboriginal spirituality is centred on the Dreaming — the eternal creative time of ancestral beings — and an inseparable connection to the land, with no doctrine of salvation from sin or judgment before God.
Atheism denies God’s existence; agnosticism declares it unknowable. Both leave man without objective morality, without hope beyond the grave, and without an answer to the guilt that every conscience feels.