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Originally Posted by UserNameGoesHere

For those who profess a particular faith or religion, how can you be sure your religion is the correct one? And even there are so many branches and sub branches and sub sub branches of religions, so how do you know your specific branch, sub-branch, sub-sub-branch, etc... is the correct one out of all of those within the same general religion?

i would say a lot of mainstream christians believe that if you just accept Christ as your savior then it doesn't really matter what sort of specific doctrine you practice or denomination you attend. each have their own ideas interpretations about individual things mentioned in the bible though.

i think of the bible as a nail in a 2x4 plank. the nail holds the plank down and you can spin it in any direction. mormons though, we believe in modern day prophets and modern day revelation, and through that we got the book of mormon, etc. which goes hand in hand with the bible. so it would be the 2nd nail in the plank. and the plank stays still and can't move. even though we believe our church is the "true" church on earth, we don't think the majority of people (religious or not) will be thrust down to hell. we have very different perceptions of the afterlife than every other denomination.