I don’t know what word they use in Arabic. All I know is that the New Catechism based on Vatican II now teaches Catholics that Muslims worship the same God as Catholics.
So, apparently the fact that the word they use is the same as the word the Muslims use is totally fine.
RE: All I know is that the New Catechism based on Vatican II now teaches Catholics that Muslims worship the same God as Catholics.
The only difficulty with that is they will have to qualify that even if the Muslims IDENTIFY correctly that there is one God, they are wrong in how they conceive Him.
Let’s put it in terms of how we can understand it in ordinary life.
The left and the right all know Obama is the President.
However, their conceptions of the person Obama are totally different.
To the left, Obama is courageous, honest, competent, fair and holds all the right ideas for a prosperous America.
The right believes in the opposite about Obama.
However, THEY BOTH IDENTIFY THE PRESIDENT CORRECTLY.
It is their CONCEPTION of Obama that is different and that conception has a direct bearing on how they act politically.
*THAT* is exactly the difference between Christians and Muslims when they worship the one God (however name or term you use ).
One does not believe that He loves us enough to be incarnate and die for our sins. One also believes that He commands apostates to be killed.
The other believes differently.
However, they both identify Him correctly.