Do the Muslims Worship the Same God as the Christians?
When I first came across this question, my initial unstudied reaction was, “of course not”. It just seemed logical to me. I argued that on the same basis that I concluded that the Jews worship a false God, so do the Muslims. Why is that? Well, the religion of the Jews was true up until Christ established a new covenant. Since the Jews then rejected the new revelation, that God is not only One in Being but He is also a Trinity with regard to Persons, their “God” must therefore be false. With the rejection of further revealed truth, it seemed logical to me that their religion became a false one, since they openly denied the Deity of Christ and the Trinity of Persons in the Godhead. The Muslims reject the same truths about the Nature of God. As such, both are false religions. This was the reason why I was troubled when I read a passage from the new universal Catechism of the Catholic Church, which says: 841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of...