Is Catholicsm and Islam compatible?

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Although they may have some common beliefs, I don’t see how Catholicism and Islam can be compatible. Catholicism teaches that God is a Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and Catholicism teaches the divinity of Jesus. Islam teaches that Jesus was a great human prophet, but not divine. Islam rejects the teaching of a Triune God and teaches that God is one, and by one that means that God is one person, and there are not three persons in one God.
 
I say they’re not. Islam is a heresy, aptly described as a cut and paste mishmash; of the Judeo-Christian religion whose Allah is a harsh deity. Muslims believe Ishmael received the blessing; not Isaac, for crying out loud.
 
I’m petty sure that the ones who hijacked the planes on 9/11 weren’t reciting the Rosary when they flew into the towers and the Pentagon.
 
Can we factor in the calvinists? A lot of folks say that they also don’t worship the same God because of their belief in double predestination.

WhadYathink?
 
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I believe that anyone who comes to the belief that there is one God who created all that is, has apprehended truth of God. They believe in the same God as the Church teaches. In as much as they don’t believe in the divine revelation as handed down from Jesus to the Church is in error but has a belief in common with the Church about who God is. In as much as Muslims believe in the God of Abraham, I remember what St.John Paul ll said, that they ‘say’ they believe in the God of Abraham.
 
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Father David answered this perfectly and in a simple manner, I “one-up” this.
 
dallas_r said:
Father David answered this perfectly and in a simple manner, I “one-up” this.
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It’s not my answer. It’s the answer of the Catholic Church. I’m merely repeating the words.

The question/answer itself is rather simple and straightforward. Jews, Christians, and Moslems all believe in the same God.

Where we go from there is when it gets complicated, such as questions of “how can we get along?”

What amazes me about this particular question, which comes up regularly on CAF, is that some people just refuse to understand that the Catholic Church has actually asked this question before and has settled upon an answer. It is not, in any way whatever, disputed.
 
Did Abraham believe in a God who made a covenant with the people descended from Isaac or Ishmael? If one believes from Ishmael one is in error about the God of Abraham.Muhammad claims a new covenant with an entirely different people. Imo
 
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Benadam said:
Did Abraham believe in a God who made a covenant with the people descended from Isaac or Ishmael? If one believes from Ishmael one is in error about the God of Abraham.Muhammad made a new covenant with an entirely different people. Imo
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You are reversing the question.

It should be “did the descendants of Abraham through Isaac believe in the same God as Abraham?”

and “did the descendants of Abraham through Ishmael believe in the same God as Abraham?”

Your are also making the typical mistake of completely confusing two different things. Believing something which is in error about God is not the same thing as believing in a different God.

If your line of reasoning were true, the world would currently have about 7 billion different gods.

If your line of reasoning were true, there would be more than 1 billion different Catholic gods
 
great post; never heard it put this way
 
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Im not confusing those things. It doesn’t matter what Ishmael’s descendants believed. It matters who the people of the covenant are. Muhammad claims a new revelation to a different people. A people who God didn’t make a covenant with. They aren’t believing in the same God Abraham does. Isn’t that essential to believing in the God of Abraham?
 
Jesus said, Abraham saw my day and was glad. That is the God Abraham knows.
 
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Im not confusing those things. It doesn’t matter what Ishmael’s descendants believed. It matters who the people of the covenant are. Muhammad claims a new revelation to a different people. A people who God didn’t make a covenant with. They aren’t believing in the same God Abraham does. Isn’t that essential to believing in the God of Abraham?
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Let me ask you a question: at this moment, how many Presidents of the United States are there currently in office?

How many?
 
One. I agree Abraham believes in God as one creator of all that is. And so do Muslims.
 
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FrDavid96 said:
Let me ask you a question: at this moment, how many Presidents of the United States are there currently in office?

How many?
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One.
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Wrong.

By your logic, your answer is wrong.

My next door neighbor to the right thinks that the President is doing a great job. My next door neighbor to the left thinks the President is doing a bad job.

According to your logic, there MUST be at least 2 different Presidents of the United States at this time, because one neighbor says one thing about him (that’s one) and the other neighbor says another thing about him (one plus one equals two). If I talk to the neighbor across the street, it might turn out that we have a third POTUS.

Since you insist that if Christians and Moslems believe differently about God, there must be 2 Gods then the same applies to the POTUS. Since two neighbors believe differently about POTUS, there must be two POTUSs. That’s your logic. I’m following your line of reasoning.
 
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I’m following your line of reasoning.
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When Catholics pray to Jesus, Catholics are praying to God, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. However, if a Catholic prays to Jesus, a Muslim will say that he is not praying to God. The Muslim will say that the Catholic is praying to a man who is a prophet, but he is not praying to God. For a Muslim, Jesus is not God. The Catholic belief is that Jesus is God. That is one reason why many people will say that Catholicism and Islam are not compatible.
 
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Isn’t that two different kinds of knowing? Ultimately what kind of a president one is will be known. Relative to God I mean , in the way we mean Abraham knows God?
 
It’s basically a matter of two different interpretations of the same thing.
 
Knowing God as one is human nature. Is Abraham even necessary to know God as one? Isn’t there anything about who God is to distinguish what is meant when belief in the God of Abraham is claimed?
 
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By your logic, your answer is wrong.

My next door neighbor to the right thinks that the President is doing a great job. My next door neighbor to the left thinks the President is doing a bad job.

According to your logic, there MUST be at least 2 different Presidents of the United States at this time, …

Since you insist that if Christians and Moslems believe differently about God, there must be 2 Gods then the same applies to the POTUS. …
That’s your logic. I’m following your line of reasoning.
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I am not convinced by your analogy. You begin with the presupposition that they are both referring to the same actual person, and so your point gets “proven.” Unfortunately, I can come up with a similar story where your point gets disproven.

But I have to do it in a second post…
 
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