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To: ealgeone

“What do the catholics say in “defense” of this mess?”

No defense is necessary. Only the balance:

Whoever knows the Old and New Testaments, and then reads the Koran, clearly sees the process by which it completely reduces Divine Revelation. It is impossible not to note the movement away from what God said about Himself, first in the Old Testament through the Prophets, and then finally in the New Testament through His Son. In Islam all the richness of God’s self-revelation, which constitutes the heritage of the Old and New Testaments, has definitely been set aside. Some of the most beautiful names in the human language are given to the God of the Koran, but He is ultimately a God outside of the World, a God who is only Majesty, never Emmanuel, God-with-us. Islam is not a religion of redemption. There is no room for the Cross and the Resurrection(p. 92).

So, with your post, we’re once again back to:

“To Protestantism False Witness is the principle of propagation. … Taking things as they are, and judging of them by the long run, one may securely say, that the anti-Catholic Tradition could not be kept alive, would die of exhaustion, without a continual supply of fable.” (John Henry Newman, Lecture 4. True Testimony Insufficient for the Protestant View)


105 posted on 03/28/2015 8:56:23 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

Oh, I should point out that the quote I posted “(p.92)” is from Pope John Paul II from the book called Crossing the Threshold of Hope.


106 posted on 03/28/2015 9:00:17 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: vladimir998

You are saying Jehovah and Allah are the same God??


108 posted on 03/28/2015 9:18:56 AM PDT by ealgeone
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