[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Why be Catholic? The Pope just told us one can be saved by being a Muslim?

The Catholic position is more complicated in that.

Is it your position that a Muslim who is ignorant of Christianity, though no fault of his own, cannot be saved?

[HarleyD]

Is it your position that a Muslim who is ignorant of Christianity, though no fault of his own, cannot be saved?

My position-

Joh 6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me [sic: our Lord Jesus], and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

Joh 6:40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

Now, understanding the Catholic position that salvation is part grace/part choice, how is it that God saves men apart from their choice?

[Gamecock]

If folks can be saved without Jesus why did He bother to come down and die on the cross? It would have been far better under the Roman Catholic scheme for people to remain ignorant than run the risk oh hearing about Jesus, rejecting Him, and being condemned.

And why evangelize? If I tell the good news to someone who is ignorant and they don’t convert I am culpable in their condemnation.

But it isn’t that simple. Muslims, according to the Roman Catholic catechism get a free pass anyway.

By the way, people are judged not because they are ignorant, but because of their sin.

[metmom]

The Catholic position is more complicated in that. Is it your position that a Muslim who is ignorant of Christianity, though no fault of his own, cannot be saved?

It's actually pretty simple, stated right here in the Catechism of the Catholic church, which says NOTHING about it being complicated.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM

841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."330