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There was just a FR thread from this last Monday with the title Christians, Muslims, and the "One God"
First few sentences;
Last week, Pope Francis received a collection of world religious leaders in his first ecumenical and interreligious event. His address to them contained diplomatic niceties and specific expressions of good will aimed at Orthodox, Protestants, Jews, and Muslims.His remarks to the latter recognized that Muslims “worship the one living and merciful God, and call upon him in prayer.” In this he echoed the 1964 dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium, which gave a nod to “the Mohammedans, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind.”
Now, both Lumen Gentium 16 and Pope Francis’s words have a pastoral rather than doctrinal purpose. Their aim is to build interreligious bridges by generously acknowledging whatever can be found to be true in other faiths—not to make precise pronouncements about their theology. That said, Lumen Gentium is an exercise of the ordinary Magisterium, and even casual statements from a pope (be it this one from Francis or similar ones made by his predecessors) shouldn’t be taken lightly.
I greet and thank cordially all of you, dear friends belonging to other religious traditions; firstly the Muslims, who worship the one living and merciful God, and call upon Him in prayer. I really appreciate your presence, and in it I see a tangible sign of the wish to grow in recipricol trust and in cooperation for the common good of humanity.
My take is that officially the Church sees Islam as a false religion.
My evidence:
There is no Saint Muhammad, and his ‘revelation’ is not a certified miracle.
For Muhammad’s visions to not be declared a miracle by the church some or all of the following have to be true.
- The Church never got around to looking into these events (not possible)
- The Church found that supernatural visitation did not happen (Muhammad made it up or dreamed it)
- The Church found that the visions were supernatural but not Devine because they are in direct conflict with the true teachings of God (satan involved)
To put is plainly, if the Church’s official position was that the one true God spoke directly to Muhammad, then we would have a St. Muhammad.
They say they are monotheists and worship One god, worship a living god and worship a merciful god. The statement affirms that they do worship a one god, but does not say they worship the same God as us.