The Book of Genesis (comics) was brought up Catholic, and thus is familiar with the more common Bible stories, but gave up the Catholic faith when he was 16. He went through a phase when he was 15 where he "[went] to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying", but when he started to scrutinize it, "it just fell apart so quickly." Crumb says he is spiritual, gnostic, and not an atheist; he is "interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things." He believes there is a God, but "I don't believe [the Book of Genesis is] the Word of God.
The Book of Mormon and the King James Bible portions of the Greek manuscripts of Matthew 5–7 do not agree with the KJV of the text, and concludes that the Book of Mormon version of the sermon should not contain text similar to the KJV. The KJV of 1769 contains translation variations which also occur in the Book of Mormon. A few examples are , , and . The Book of Mormon references "dragons" and "satyrs" in , matching the KJV of the Bible. Some examples of homophones found in the English Book of Mormon are the words "strait" and "straight", and the words "sun" and "son". A few