I would do a poll on this, but I don’t know how to start one.
There has been a lot of discussion here (especially relating to the Pope and the Quran) about Islam and the God of Abraham. I have always believed that Jews, Christians, and Muslims worshiped the same God, the God of Abraham. I have always always believed that there is only one God, and therefore all monotheists worship this same God, however imperfectly. So what do folks here believe:
All monotheists worship the same God, no matter how imperfectly.
Jews, Christians and Muslims all worship the same God that Abraham worshipped. (Others religions worship nothing or a false God.)
There is only one God and Jews and Christians worship this same God, but Islam is so flawed that it cannot be said to worship the Abrahamic God.
Jews and Christians worship the same God. Followers of Islam worship a real entity, but it is not the God of Abraham.
Only Christians worship the one true God.
Obviously there are other combinations possible. It seems to me that there is only one God, so it is simply not possible to worship “some other God.” So either all religions worship the same God, some more perfectly than others, or flawed religions are totally empty exercises worshipping nothing. What do people here think?
I put this in TC because there has already been so much discussion along these lines here. If it should go over in apologetics, I’m happy to move it there.
The True God is Triune.
Just pick the religions that hold to that fact.
Neither the Jewish or Islamic religion believe the God of Abraham since that God is Triune.
It has of late just been promoted by some so as to give the appearance that we are all on the way to a common religion.
So the Jews switched to a different God when the Holy Spirit over shadowed Mary and Jesus arrived on the earthly scene? They must have been really agitated to do such a thing after a thousand years or so of Abraham’s God being the love of their life.
So the Jews switched to a different God when the Holy Spirit over shadowed Mary and Jesus arrived on the earthly scene? They must have been really agitated to do such a thing after a thousand years or so of Abraham’s God being the love of their life.
JN 8:56 Abraham your father rejoiced that he might see my day: he saw it, and was glad. 57 The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58 Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am. 59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him.
Polls are interesting, but in the end, they don’t really matter. What matters is what the Church teaches. That can readily be accessed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Read Genesis 19. Abraham bowed down to the three angels, typifying the three Persons of the Trinity, but addressed them in the SINGULAR: “What does my Lord want?”
Read Genesis 19. Abraham bowed down** to the three angels, typifying the three Persons of the Trinity,** but addressed them in the SINGULAR: “What does my Lord want?”
As can also be seen by the scripture provided —when we christians use and speak the word God (singular) the knowledge that He has revealed His true Self (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is imbedded within the use of the singular God. Can the same be said of those outside christianity.
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