Cross Seekers Interfaith Symposium: The Four Religions

At the Cross Seekers Interfaith Symposium, there were four speakers from different religions that gave their perspectives on what they believe to be scripture. The four religions that being represented were The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Islamic, Catholic, and Protestant. As I listened to each of these speakers testify of what they believe scripture to be, I noticed many differences and similarities between each of them that defined their culture and the way they went about practicing their beliefs.
A popular subject among all the speakers was how they received the scriptures through revelation. The idea of revelation is something that expands across many religions, but different sects of religion have various beliefs as to how revelation is received and interpreted. This shows us how different cultural beliefs around the world may have similar principles such as revelation, or something like baptism, but their interpretations and practices of those principles are very different based on their cultural belief system. In the LDS faith, Dr. Camille F. Olson said that members carry the scriptures wherever they go, they memorize, study and mark them. They believe both the Book of Mormon and the Bible to be
Like revelation, how one studies and the feelings one develops toward a piece of scripture can be vastly different. In Protestantism children can recite biblical songs and verses from the time they are very young, you don’t often see a child of the LDS faith reciting the Bible from memory. To some, the doctrine taught in the scriptures forever remains the same while others find new insight from different interpretations of the same scripture. The way we practice our religious beliefs is traced back to our culture and the perception culture that we have developed over time and throughout each of our