Where do Catholics stand with CCC 841 that indicates that Catholics and Muslims worship the same 'merciful God.'? Is the Catholic Catechism stating that Muslims worship Yahweh -- the Trinity? Because Muslims don't. They vehemently state that they don't. Yet the CCC says they do.
What about CCC 969 which states that Mary is a 'mediatrix' when scripture states unequivocally that there is ONE mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ? Which is true? God-breathed scripture (God), or the Magisterium (man)? Where do Catholics stand there?
If Catholics DISAGREE with the CCC, then they are in disagreement with the Roman Catholic Church/Cult, right? But if the AGREE, it appears that they are in disagreement with God's own word.
Seems like a quandary to me.
Hoss
362 The human person, created in the image of God, is a being at once corporeal and spiritual. The biblical account expresses this reality in symbolic language when it affirms that "then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."229 Man, whole and entire, is therefore willed by God.
OR maybe this....
Catholics are at liberty to believe that creation took a few days or a much longer period, according to how they see the evidence, and subject to any future judgment of the Church (Pius XII’s 1950 encyclical Humani Generis 36–37). They need not be hostile to modern cosmology. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, "[M]any scientific studies . . . have splendidly enriched our knowledge of the age and dimensions of the cosmos, the development of life forms, and the appearance of man. These studies invite us to even greater admiration for the greatness of the Creator" (CCC 283). Still, science has its limits (CCC 284, 2293–4). The following quotations from the Fathers show how widely divergent early Christian views were. http://www.catholic.com/tracts/creation-and-genesis
or this....
337 God himself created the visible world in all its richness, diversity and order. Scripture presents the work of the Creator symbolically as a succession of six days of divine "work", concluded by the "rest" of the seventh day.204 On the subject of creation, the sacred text teaches the truths revealed by God for our salvation,205 permitting us to "recognize the inner nature, the value and the ordering of the whole of creation to the praise of God."206