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=== Other comparisons ===
The book can be seen as belonging in the genre of spiritual literature that includes ''[[A Course in Miracles]]'' and ''[[Conversations with God]]''.{{sfn|Gooch|2002|pp=17–18}} Gardner compares it with ''[[Oahspe]]'', noting that though ''Oahspe'' is "vastly inferior to the UB both in ideas and style of writing," they are similar in claiming to have been written by celestial beings channelled through a human conduit, teaching that there is "one ultimate God who oversees a vast bureaucracy of lesser deities" while both outline an elaborate [[cosmology]].{{sfn|Gardner|1995|pp=161–178}} The book's claimed supernatural origin has been compared to similar claims of the [[Book of Mormon]], [[Science and Health]], the [[Quran]], and the [[Bible]],{{sfn|Gooch|2002|p=15}}{{sfn|Gardner|1995|p=10}} with belief in it not being seen as necessarily a greater leap in reason.{{sfn|Lewis|2007|p=210}}{{sfn|Gooch|2002|p=15}}

Incorporated in the book itself are comparisons with facets of various [[world religions]] including [[Buddhism]], [[Islam]], [[Taoism]], [[Judaism]], [[Hinduism]], [[Shinto]], and [[Confucianism]]. For example, Paper 131, "The World's Religions" discusses the aspects of these religions that are in common with what the book claims is the "religion of Jesus." The stance of the book is that "There is not a Urantia religion that could not profitably study and assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith, for all contain truth."{{sfn|The Urantia Book|1955|p=1012}}