QUOTE(yeeck @ Mar 6 2018, 11:58 AM)
Pope Gregory VII also wrote something similar to a Muslim Sultan:
"For there is nothing which Almighty God, who wishes that all men should be saved and that no man should perish, more approves in our conduct than that a man should first love God and then his fellow men ... Most certainly you and we ought to love each other in this way more than other races of men,
because we believe and confess one God, albeit in different ways, whom each day we praise and reverence as the creator of all ages and the governor of this world."
However, the Church does not teach that Muslims are saved by Islam and Christians are saved by Christ. She's not denying the need to evangelize even to the Muslims. Thus the issue on that sentence if read alone is that it can be misinterpreted.
Believing in the One God is not the same as believing in the Same God.
Not all statues are not idols, as I've explained in many posts in the Catholic thread before and also to rabid anti-Catholics like sylar. And certainly God did not forbid making images.
'Different ways'.....hmmm......includes salvation perhaps. By declaring the above statement tells the Muslims that we are worshipping the same god. Allah and Yahweh are same, revealed 'differently'. HERESY.
If the revelations to Muhammed are true, Christianity is false. God is no chameleon. He does not change according to the whims and fancies of man.
Not all statues are idols.
BUT ALL STATUES ARE GRAVEN IMAGES.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6459 pesel: an idol, image
Original Word: פֶּ֫סֶל
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: pesel
Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-sel)
Short Definition: image
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from pasal
Definition
an idol, image
NASB Translation
carved image (2), graven image (14), graven images (1), idol (10), idols (3), image (1).
This post has been edited by prophetjul: Mar 6 2018, 04:21 PM