I’m curious as to how the intended audience will respond to the CCC’s teaching that Catholics and Muslims worship the same God
A good point! There is so much ignorance amongst the various "christian sects". As the article notes: "It is an undertaking directed not so much towards Jews as Christians working in Israel." I posted a thread earlier in the week, that gave the conversion story of a Muslim to christianity. In it, he explains:
Because Taimoor’s faith developed outside of mainstream Christendom, some of his views would be considered provocative to Christians. “I respect Muhammad and use him next to the Bible and the church as the third great witness of the glory of Christ,” Taimoor says. “I am proving to the Muslims the God they worship is the same God as ours,” he says. He believes Muslims are like Jews–they worship the same God as Christians– but reject Jesus as Messiah.
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It seems the challenge of acknowledging that Christians, Jews and Muslims all worship the same god, endures. Perhaps, as the Muslim convert experienced, the other faiths may one day revisit their theological constructs of God.
I personally asked our pastor if allah and God were the same deity and he just blurted out “NO!”
I guess we have an infidel running our parish.