Mormonism and other religions

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Mormonism and other religions

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• Do Latter-day Saints believe that members of other religions can receive a spiritual witness that their own teachings are true?

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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• Question: How can Latter-day Saints reconcile having other people receive spiritual experiences that motivate them to believe in and become part of other religions?
• Question: Do Mormons believe that other religions can be inspired by God?
• Question: Do all other religions confirm their beliefs through spiritual witness?
• Question: Do Latter-day Saints discount the spiritual witnesses that members of other religions may receive?
• Question: Can non-Mormons feel a spiritual experience that cause them to devote themselves to service within another Church?
• Joseph Smith (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"
• Joseph Fielding Smith: "when the millennium comes...There will be millions of people...of all beliefs, still permitted to remain upon the face of the earth"
• Preach My Gospel: "many other nations and cultures have been blessed by those who were given that portion that God 'seeth fit that they should have'"

Growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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• Question: Why would the true church of Jesus Christ be comprised of only a small percentage of the population of the Earth?