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Catholic Church breaks the lance for Islam – oath of disclosure

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The Roman Catholic Church’s affection for Islam is clearly growing. It has always been the case that Catholicism and Islam worship the same God. The divisive “villains” were the Protestants. Another confession by the Roman Church that they don’t care about the Gospel.

Church of Rome on a cozy course with Islam

The Roman Catholic Church is clearly striving for ecumenism and, in its usual subtle way, is even breaking a lance for Islam. The fundamental question is whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. The Catholic media soup kitchen “catholic.com” has taken up this topic and immediately identified a culprit who brought the great division into this topic (Source).

It begins with relativizing the term “the same God.” This expression is problematic because it has different meanings. In this sense, Muslims do not worship the same God because they do not believe in the Trinity. But Muslims worship God as the only, almighty creator who also appeared to Abraham.

The Catholic magazine uses the Second Vatican Council as a major theological statement. The term “the same God” was not used there. Instead, it said that Muslims worship “the one and merciful God” and “the one God.” The recognition that Muslims worship God was therefore never controversial in the Catholic Church. After all, the Catholic tradition contains the same concept.

The Evil Protestants

Martin Luther Statue
The figurehead of Rome’s archenemies

The Catholic media stated that the idea that Muslims do not worship God is an idea that comes from outside Catholicism, namely from Protestant circles. Protestant circles tried to justify this by using the statement in 2 Corinthians 11:4:
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

According to the magazine, this verse is used to show that a different understanding of Jesus invalidates one’s own faith, since this is ultimately “another Christ”.

This statement is supported by Galatians 1:8:
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

These two biblical statements are therefore often used by Protestants to deny Christianity to Catholicism. This is also used for “anti-Muslim apologetics”. After all, Muslims rejected Jesus as the son of God and therefore have a “different God”, according to the magazine.

The papacy has always recognized Islam

Then a “big surprise”, as “catholisch.com” describes it. The traditional Catholic understanding corresponds to the statements of “Saint” Thomas Aquinas and “Saint” John of Damascene. Although they criticized Islam, nowhere can statements be found such as “Muslims worship a different God than the God we Christians worship”. Therefore, when looking at the Catholic tradition, the acceptance that Muslims worship God despite their faults becomes apparent.

Pantheon fountain
Pantheon – Obelisk – Idols – Church of Rome

This can also be seen in “Lumen Gentium 16”:
The Church regards with esteem also the Muslims. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in himself; merciful and all-powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even his inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, his virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving, and fasting.

Today, one can see that Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085), one of the “great reforming and holy popes of the Middle Ages,” had no problems recognizing Islam, which worships “the same God” as “we.” This is simply done in “different” forms.

“We just don’t care”

In the truest sense, this is (another) confession of faith by the Roman Catholic Church. They are so confident in their own arrogance that they even quote crystal-clear biblical statements and present them as “lame excuses” by the (former – Info) Protestants. In this case, it is even necessary, otherwise they would condemn themselves and their own teachings.

But what is there to shake up with 2 Corinthians 11:4 and Galatians 1:8? The teachings of Islam and also of Catholicism deviate significantly from the teachings of the Gospel. In fact, that is the end of the matter. But, as is clear once again, the Roman Church does not care about the statements of the Gospel, but continues down its “infallible” path. The God of the Bible has a son in Jesus Christ, the living Word of God. Islam does not have this son. (Info). Can this be the same God? No. What does this have to do with the way of worship? Nothing!

In fact, Catholicism and Islam have striking parallels. Be it the excessive veneration of Mary or the outright horror stories about an eternal, soul-torturing hell of a vengeful God (Info). Neither the worship of Mary nor the “praying with her” nor an eternally tormenting hell are biblical. It is also a fact that Mohammed’s first wife, who was 15 years older than him, came from a very wealthy, arch-Catholic family.

Ecumenism at any price

Vatican Sun Basilica
The center of sun worshipers

The denial of the gospel by the Roman Catholic Church is nothing new. This is demonstrated by their official teachings of the first three lies of the serpent in the Garden of Eden (Info). However, the flare-up of their real aim is clear: the unification of humanity under their own umbrella. Catholicism, the “universal”, the unifying, is the stark opposite of why Jesus Christ came into this world as a human being, Matthew 10:34-35:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Jesus Christ did not come into this world to strive for world peace, nor to unite people into one human family. That was/is hopeless in view of the fallen state and – most importantly – while maintaining free will for humans. Jesus Christ came into this world to proclaim the truth and this brought and continues to bring division in humanity. This will continue until the end, when only a small group remains that holds fast to the gospel, follows the laws of God and has the testimony of Jesus.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelation 14:12

Bible verses from King James Version (1611)

Catholic Church breaks the lance for Islam – oath of disclosure
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