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Lovers Of Ecumenicide Pretend Muslims Worship Our God - They DON'T!
Restore DC Catholicism ^ | 8/19/2014

Posted on 08/19/2014 7:33:43 PM PDT by markomalley

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To: Campion; piusv

From Merriam-Webster:
>>Full Definition of ADORE

transitive verb
1
: to worship or honor as a deity or as divine<<

From the Baltimore Catechism:

>>I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them.<<

From Lumen Gentium:
>>...and together with us [Catholics] they [moose limbs] adore the one, merciful God,...<<


21 posted on 08/20/2014 5:22:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
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To: metmom
To: markomalley The Catechism of the Catholic church states it plainly. 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

It is amazing it takes a former RC to provide what the text actually says, which is missing in the DC RC spin, for V2 and the CCC does not merely say the Muslims profess to worship the God of Abraham, but it affirms that "together with us they adore the one, merciful God..."

There can be no reading "profess" into the latter part. They would only be credible by admitting the liberal faction of V2 worked that in there, and be like the sedevacantists in rejecting that council as authoritative. But as there is more that needs to be rejected in order to hold to saving Truth, just this rejection would only leave them as lost as before.

22 posted on 08/20/2014 6:18:59 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: piusv
The Taylor Marshall link explained pretty clearly that the LG quote simply allows that Muslims profess to worship the God of Abraham, which is certainly true.

No, it goes on to explain what “adore” supposedly means in this circumstance. I can’t roll my eyes hard enough.

Indeed:

They shoot their arrow in the right direction (toward the “God of Abraham”), but they do not understand the target and their bow is too weak because their bow lacks the power of grace.

That could be true of a honest seeker who did not buy all the Muslim theology, or like some unnamed undefined god in contrast to a named defined deity, (Acts 17:22) but it cannot be true of Islam as a whole, which is what V2 and the CCC affirms as worshiping God.

For Islam actually denies the God of the Bible as being the one true God, contradicting Him in history, covenant and promises, and means of salvation, denying "God manifest in the flesh," and even His death and resurrection, among other things .

This is not a matter of misunderstanding the God of Abraham, but that of creating another God which makes the God of the Bible to be the misunderstanding. Thus Muslims need to repent of worshiping Allah in order to be saved, like as Paul commanded other pagans:

And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: (Acts 14:15)

23 posted on 08/20/2014 6:42:32 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: metmom
latria = hyperdulia = dulia = hair splitting semantics

On the practical level.

Or would you have any problem in Bible times explaining kneeling before a statue and praising the entity it represented in the unseen world, and as having Divine powers and glory, and making offerings and beseeching such for Heavenly help, directly accessed by mental prayer.

Moses, put down those rocks! I was only engaging in hyper dulia, not adoring her. Can't you tell the difference?


24 posted on 08/20/2014 6:49:01 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212
For Islam actually denies the God of the Bible as being the one true God

Actually, they claim that the Bible has been corrupted and originally taught their doctrine.

denying "God manifest in the flesh," and even His death and resurrection

Judaism certainly denies all of those things.

25 posted on 08/20/2014 7:59:47 PM PDT by Campion
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To: piusv
Well, don't hurt yourself or anything.

Keep in mind that the magisterium has no charism to teach the doctrines of a religion other than Catholicism. So any assertion they make about "what Muslims teach" or "what Muslims believe" cannot be authoritative in any definitive sense. (Muslims, after all, are the authority on what Muslims believe, not Catholics.)

The assertion that Muslims profess to adore the God of Abraham is about as far as the Vatican Council can press the issue, and even that assertion is only as good as the Muslims wish to make it.

26 posted on 08/20/2014 8:05:05 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Campion; daniel1212; metmom; Iscool
Keep in mind that the magisterium has no charism to teach the doctrines of a religion other than Catholicism. So any assertion they make about "what Muslims teach" or "what Muslims believe" cannot be authoritative in any definitive sense. (Muslims, after all, are the authority on what Muslims believe, not Catholics.)

Substitute the word "Protestant" for "Muslim" in the above and you'll find the lie in that apologetic.

27 posted on 08/20/2014 8:43:37 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: metmom
I. THE CHURCH IS ONE...from the link.

The Catholic leadership , and on their vatican website, appeals to the New Age Spirituality in the language they use of “Oneness”. As well as other verbiage which unites the movement and other faiths within the Catholic faith as “all”.

God never includes “ALL” ...The God of the Bible is a God of distinctions, the catholic church has lost sight of those distinctions....and the church has lost sight of why that is so ....rather it's playing into the 'Universal' push which is inclusive of all religions worshipping the same God....which they don't. The leadership is doing this because they desire 'to lead' this agenda and have the power at the head of the representation which forms as the NWO shapes up.

28 posted on 08/20/2014 10:24:51 PM PDT by caww
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To: left that other site

....”Why so difficult for Educated, Lofty, Ordained, and Powerful Religious and Political Leaders to figure this out?”.....

Jesus let us know this would come.....where “they” would believe they were doing God a service....(such as accepting Islam and other religions as having the same God)...and He told us they do this because they haven’t know Him nor the Father.

So they are blinded from the truth because they do not know Him....and believe a lie.


29 posted on 08/20/2014 10:31:16 PM PDT by caww
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To: Campion

...”The assertion that Muslims profess to adore the God of Abraham is about as far as the Vatican Council can press the issue”......

But Muslims don’t worship the God of the Bible....so the Vatican Council has already gone to far. Therefore by doing so they’ve agreed with the Muslim’s statements....which we know what God says about such agreements.


30 posted on 08/20/2014 10:35:45 PM PDT by caww
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To: Alex Murphy; Campion; daniel1212; metmom; Iscool; caww
Keep in mind that the magisterium has no charism to teach the doctrines of a religion other than Catholicism. So any assertion they make about "what Muslims teach" or "what Muslims believe" cannot be authoritative in any definitive sense. (Muslims, after all, are the authority on what Muslims believe, not Catholics.)

Substitute the word "Protestant" for "Muslim" in the above and you'll find the lie in that apologetic.

Really good point! There are many Traditionalist Catholics who cling to the dogma of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus which means: "outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation", to also include all the Protestant, or not-Catholic Christian denominations as well as the Eastern Orthodox. That is why so many flip out over Vatican II's Lumen Gentium, which softened ("reformulated positively") that language and allows the possibility that people CAN be saved outside of being formally Roman Catholic. Even Muslims and atheists are included:

    "Those also can attain to salvation who through no fault of their own do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, yet sincerely seek God and moved by grace strive by their deeds to do His will as it is known to them through the dictates of conscience. Nor does Divine Providence deny the helps necessary for salvation to those who, without blame on their part, have not yet arrived at an explicit knowledge of God and with His grace strive to live a good life."

So, even non-theists, pagans and any other non-Christian believers can still be saved as long as they are "being good" and trying to live a good life according to their own consciences. That nullifies God's own word that states there is NO salvation outside of faith in Jesus Christ - no other name under heaven whereby we must be saved! Quite a conundrum!

31 posted on 08/20/2014 11:30:24 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: Campion
The Taylor Marshall link explained pretty clearly that the LG quote simply allows that Muslims profess to worship the God of Abraham, which is certainly true.

They certainly do NOT worship the God of Abraham...Jesus Christ is the God of Abraham...Muzlims do not worship Jesus/God...

32 posted on 08/21/2014 1:54:37 AM PDT by Iscool
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To: caww

That is the only possible explanation. :-)

The whole Ferguson Thing is also an amazing example of how people can believe a lie, even when the truth is presented in all its obviousness.


33 posted on 08/21/2014 4:25:04 AM PDT by left that other site
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To: Campion
Well, don't hurt yourself or anything.

Ok, that made me laugh. Good one.

The assertion that Muslims profess to adore the God of Abraham is about as far as the Vatican Council can press the issue, and even that assertion is only as good as the Muslims wish to make it.

I'm not sure how to take this post of yours. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you sincerely believe this is what the Church teaches. The problem is this is not what the Catechism/Vatican II states. It doesn't state that they "profess to adore". It states that "they adore". Two very different things, my friend.

34 posted on 08/21/2014 4:29:18 AM PDT by piusv
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To: caww

It certainly went too far: it contradicts pre-VII Catholic teaching that calls Islam a diabolical religion. How did the Catholic Church go from describing Islam as an abomination to a religion where we both adore the same God? Probably when the Catholic Church turned into the PC-Church.

Perhaps the author of the blog and/or Dr. Taylor Marshall would like to explain what definition of “abomination” or “diabolical” those previous popes and saints were using at the time. I’m sure they’ll employ similar mental gymnastics they used with the word “adore”.


35 posted on 08/21/2014 4:41:33 AM PDT by piusv
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To: Campion
The assertion that Muslims profess to adore the God of Abraham is about as far as the Vatican Council can press the issue, and even that assertion is only as good as the Muslims wish to make it.

But it went beyond that. Finish reading the statement out of the CCC.

Here it is again......

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

About the only thing correct in that statement is that muslims profess to worship the God of Abraham. Everything else is so wrong.

The Catholic church right here in their own words states that they adore the same God.

Salvation is found through Jesus Christ, and none other. Peter says that there is no other name under heaven by which me MUST be saved. (Acts 4:12)

It's not simply a matter of acknowledging the Creator.

And in first place is the MUSLIMS?

Not the Jews who DO worship the same God, the God of the OT?

And before non-Catholic Christians who also DO worship the God of the Bible and profess faith in Jesus?

In first place is the muslims, who the church fought in the Crusades? The same ones who hack off people's heads for not converting to islam? The same ones who fly planes into buildings in the name of Allah?

That same God?

Will you wake up and actually READ what your church is saying and think it through yourself instead of believing what you are told to believe? What has been *interpreted* for you?

36 posted on 08/21/2014 6:51:02 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: markomalley

There is no Saint Mohammad...

What actual Saints say about islam is very telling. (there is a post on FR with their quotes.)


37 posted on 08/21/2014 6:55:11 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: metmom
And in first place is the MUSLIMS?

The Jews are discussed in an earlier paragraph. I agree the catechism is a disaster but in this case you're barking up the wrong tree, the muslims are the first among the heathen to be discussed.

38 posted on 08/21/2014 7:22:44 AM PDT by Legatus (Either way, we're screwed.)
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To: Legatus

That’s not what it says.


39 posted on 08/21/2014 7:45:03 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Legatus

That’s not what it says.

There’s a difference between what the CCC actually says and what Catholics say it means.

Instead of going by the *interpretation* offered by the church to excuse what is said, maybe the someone just ought to take a good hard look at what is really being said.

The only ones who *know* what is *really meant* are those Catholics who have been told otherwise by their church. The rest of the world, with good reading comprehension, takes the words written down and validated by the RCC itself, at face value.

If what is said isn’t what is meant, then it behooves someone in the RCC to rewrite it so it actually reflects what they mean, instead of just going around telling everyone else they’re wrong.


40 posted on 08/21/2014 7:48:56 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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