Does Your Belief Measure Up to Scripture?
Eternity is too important to trust a belief merely because it is familiar, inherited, sincere, or widely accepted.
Choose your religion, denomination, spiritual path, or worldview below. Compare its teachings honestly with the Holy Bible and carefully consider the claims of Jesus Christ.
Why This Page Exists
These comparisons were written with genuine concern and respect for every reader—not to criticize people or merely win arguments.
The question is not whether a belief is old, popular, inherited, or sincerely held. The question is: Does it agree with the Word of God?
Find Your Belief and Compare It With Scripture
Search by name or choose a category to find the comparison that most closely represents your religion, denomination, spiritual background, worldview, or present questions.
Showing all 43 belief comparisons.
Christian and Christian-Identifying Groups
Examine teachings concerning Jesus Christ, Scripture, salvation, authority, and the gospel.
Who Is Jesus Christ?
Examine what the Bible teaches about the identity, nature, authority, and saving work of Jesus Christ.
Are You Trusting Completely in Jesus Christ?
Consider whether salvation rests entirely upon Jesus Christ and His finished work or partly upon religious works and sacraments.
Is the Restored Gospel the Biblical Gospel?
Compare the restored-gospel claim with the gospel preached by Jesus Christ and His apostles in Scripture.
Is Jesus Christ’s Finished Work Enough?
Examine the relationship between the law, the Sabbath, judgment, assurance, and the completed work of Christ.
Is Sacred Tradition Equal to the Holy Bible?
Consider whether religious tradition shares equal authority with the inspired written Word of God.
Are Sin, Sickness, and Matter Truly Unreal?
Compare Christian Science teachings about reality, sin, healing, and Jesus Christ with the Bible.
Did Jesus Leave His Mission Unfinished?
Examine whether Jesus Christ completed the work the Father gave Him or required a later religious figure to finish it.
Did Jesus Exist Before He Was Born?
Study what Scripture reveals about the eternal existence, incarnation, and identity of Jesus Christ.
Is Membership in One Organization Necessary for Salvation?
Consider whether salvation is found in membership within one earthly institution or in Jesus Christ Himself.
Who Are God’s True Covenant People?
Examine ancestry, covenant promises, faith, Israel, and the people God gathers through Jesus Christ.
Who Are the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?
Examine the biblical testimony concerning the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Did God Reveal a New Spiritual Meaning of the Bible?
Compare claims of later spiritual interpretation with the plain testimony and authority of Scripture.
Is the Inner Light a Sufficient Guide to God?
Consider the relationship between inward impressions, the written Word of God, and Jesus Christ.
Abrahamic and Middle Eastern Beliefs
Explore questions concerning revelation, prophecy, covenant, the Messiah, and the identity of God.
Who Is Jesus Christ According to the Bible?
Examine the biblical testimony concerning Jesus Christ, His crucifixion, resurrection, identity, and authority to save.
Is Jesus the Promised Messiah of Israel?
Consider the prophetic witnesses in the Hebrew Scriptures and their fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
Is Bahá’u’lláh a Later Revelation From God?
Compare progressive-revelation claims with the finality, authority, and message of Jesus Christ.
Who Is God and Who Is the True Messiah?
Examine the biblical identity of God, humanity, Jesus Christ, salvation, and the promised Messiah.
Does the Soul Return Through Reincarnation?
Compare reincarnation with the Bible’s teaching concerning death, resurrection, judgment, and eternity.
Who Is the One Mediator Between God and Humanity?
Examine what Scripture teaches concerning angels, mediation, worship, forgiveness, and access to God.
Who Did John the Baptist Tell Us to Follow?
Study John the Baptist’s own testimony concerning Jesus Christ and the One who came after him.
Eastern Religions and Spiritual Paths
Compare teachings concerning karma, suffering, purification, divine reality, and salvation.
Is Jesus Christ the Only Way to God?
Consider the Bible’s teaching concerning the Creator, many gods, incarnation, truth, and the only Savior.
Can Jesus Christ Give More Than Freedom From Suffering?
Compare the search for release from suffering with Christ’s promise of forgiveness, eternal life, and reconciliation with God.
Is Jesus Christ the Only Savior?
Examine grace, works, devotion, Scripture, and the Bible’s declaration that salvation is found in Jesus Christ.
Who Is the True Creator?
Consider whether ultimate reality is an impersonal way or the personal Creator revealed in Scripture.
Who Is the True Creator and Source of Purification?
Compare ritual purification and reverence for kami with the holiness, cleansing, and salvation offered by God.
Can the Soul Free Itself From Karma?
Examine whether the human soul can remove its own guilt or needs forgiveness and salvation from God.
Did God Reveal One Universal Religion Through Spirits?
Compare claimed spirit revelations and religious synthesis with the revelation God has given through Jesus Christ.
Is the Joyous Life God’s Complete Path of Salvation?
Consider whether spiritual happiness and service can solve humanity’s deepest problem of sin and separation from God.
Can Spiritual Cultivation Remove Karma?
Compare self-cultivation and karma removal with biblical forgiveness and the saving work of Jesus Christ.
Can Chanting Reveal Buddhahood?
Compare chanting and self-transformation with the Bible’s message of salvation through Jesus Christ.
Traditional, Indigenous, and Cultural Religions
Explore questions concerning ancestors, spirits, nature, purification, divine authority, and the Messiah.
Who Has Authority Over the Spirit World?
Examine ancestors, spirits, fear, protection, mediation, and the complete authority of Jesus Christ.
Is Haile Selassie the Returned Messiah?
Compare claims about Haile Selassie with the biblical identity and promised return of Jesus Christ.
How Will Evil Finally Be Defeated?
Consider the origin of evil, final judgment, resurrection, and the victory Scripture attributes to Jesus Christ.
Modern Spiritual Movements and Esoteric Paths
Examine claims involving spirit communication, hidden knowledge, self-liberation, nature spirituality, initiation, and extraterrestrial origins.
Is the Divine Within You, or Do You Need Jesus Christ?
Consider whether humanity’s answer is found by looking inward or by being reconciled to the living God.
Should We Seek Guidance From Departed Spirits?
Compare communication with departed spirits to the Bible’s warnings and God’s appointed source of truth.
Is Nature Divine or Created by God?
Examine worship of nature, spiritual power, morality, creation, and the personal God revealed in Scripture.
Can Auditing Set the Human Spirit Free?
Compare auditing, spiritual progression, and self-liberation with the freedom and salvation offered by Jesus Christ.
Who Is the Great Architect of the Universe?
Consider religious neutrality, secret knowledge, light, morality, and the identity of the true God.
Can Soul Travel Lead Us Home to God?
Compare soul travel and spiritual masters with the Bible’s teaching about access to God through Jesus Christ.
Did Extraterrestrials Create Humanity?
Compare claims of extraterrestrial creation with the Bible’s testimony concerning God as Creator.
Secular and Philosophical Worldviews
Consider evidence, truth, revelation, morality, religious pluralism, and whether the Creator has spoken.
Is There Good Reason to Believe in God?
Explore evidence from existence, order, morality, consciousness, Scripture, prophecy, and Jesus Christ.
Can Contradictory Beliefs All Be True?
Consider whether sincere but conflicting religious claims can all describe reality truthfully.
Has the Creator Spoken to Humanity?
Examine whether the Creator remained distant or revealed Himself through Scripture and Jesus Christ.
A Respectful Invitation to Examine the Evidence
Every person deserves to be treated with dignity. At the same time, contradictory beliefs cannot all be true in the same way. An honest examination does not require hostility; it requires humility, patience, evidence, and a willingness to follow the truth wherever it leads.
Our purpose is to point every reader to Jesus Christ and to the Holy Bible, not to pressure anyone into a hurried decision. Read carefully. Examine the Scriptures. Ask God to show you the truth.
Truth has nothing to fear from honest examination.
Where Will You Spend Eternity?
Examining different beliefs is important, but the greatest question is personal: Have you received the forgiveness and eternal life Jesus Christ offers? Do not leave without making sure.