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Every major area of Catholic and LDS comparative theology — the questions that matter most, examined with rigor and charity.
The case for the Catholic Church is not built on a single argument but on a convergence of evidence across many domains. Explore each topic below to see how Scripture, the Church Fathers, history, and logical coherence point in the same direction.
Did Christ mean His words at the Last Supper literally? The unanimous voice of the early Church answers clearly — and the LDS tradition has no comparable sacramental theology to offer.
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Christ promised His Church would never fail. Apostolic succession is not a medieval invention — it is the very mechanism the earliest Christians identified as the mark of the true Church.
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The LDS King Follett Discourse teaches that God was once a man who progressed to exaltation. This is not a refinement of Christianity — it is a fundamental departure from every strand of historic Christian theology.
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The LDS doctrine of exaltation — becoming gods — is the central soteriological claim of the tradition. How does it compare to the Catholic understanding of grace, divinization, and the gift of eternal life?
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Both Protestantism and Mormonism, in different ways, claim the Bible as their foundation — yet both reject the authority of the Church that defined its canon. Who gave us the Bible, and by what authority? The historical answer presents a profound challenge to both traditions.
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A prophetic tradition rises or falls on the reliability of its historical claims. Joseph Smith's plural marriages, the First Vision accounts, and the archaeological silence surrounding the Book of Mormon all deserve honest examination.
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LDS theology requires a total apostasy of Christ's Church, making a restoration necessary. But the historical and biblical record presents a continuous, identifiable community of faith stretching from Pentecost to today.
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Catholic progressive revelation sees God's covenants building cumulatively toward their fulfillment in Christ. LDS primordial dispensationalism inverts this — placing the fullest revelation at the beginning, not the end.
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If living prophets can contradict dead ones, and core doctrines can reverse within a generation, what confidence can any believer have in the system? Catholic bounded infallibility versus LDS unlimited — but fallible — prophetic authority.
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Few contrasts are more revealing than how each tradition treats its most prominent women. The Catholic Church crowns Mary Queen of Heaven and names women Doctors of the Church. The LDS founding era threatened Emma Smith with destruction and silenced the divine feminine entirely.
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Why is the Catholic Church Roman? Not by political accident, but by prophetic necessity. From Daniel's four kingdoms to the martyrdom of Peter and Paul, the Romanitas of the Church is woven into the fabric of salvation history itself.
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