Catholicism vs Protestantism

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Dan_473 said:
I don't think Catholics are saying that devout Muslims who have heard all about Jesus and the Catholic Church and refuse to believe are saved. Do you think that's what Catholics are saying?


No, I don't believe all professing Christians are saved.
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Not state but it imply

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."
 
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You can tell a tree by its fruit.

When I see all the hospitals begun by Catholics, Baptists, Methodists and other Christian believers, I see tons of fruit. Think I'm satisfied to let God do the judging, while I struggle to live up to Jesus' two-part reply to the question of what constitutes the greatest commandment, citing two that sum up the law and the prophets. If exercised, those two increase unity among the body of Christian believers.
 
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Than tell me what part on my point was wrong. Let have honest talk
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Well, where to start? Talking about the things that I think you haven't understood correctly is what I've been doing.

Can you summarize what you understand I've been saying so far?
 
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Jackson123 said:
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."

I think you interprate this paragraph

Muslim that never hear catholic in the plan of salvation.
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No, I don't think it says that.
 
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HWatts said:
You can tell a tree by its fruit.

When I see all the hospitals begun by Catholics, Baptists, Methodists and other Christian believers, I see tons of fruit. Think I'm satisfied to let God do the judging, while I struggle to live up to Jesus' two-part reply to the question of what constitutes the greatest commandment, citing two that sum up the law and the prophets. If exercised, those two increase unity among the body of Christian believers.
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In my country Buddhist, and Muslim build hospital too.

Is that mean they save?
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Dan_473 said:
Who all do they say is in the plan of salvation?
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I don't understand you question.

Don't it say Muslim profess and hold the faith of abraham

And together with us adore the one mercy God?
 
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In my country Buddhist, and Muslim build hospital too.

Is that mean they save?
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Definitely not. Jesus saves. Not religion. Not even the Christian religion. The Lord does the saving. You'll have to ask Him who He will forgive and who He won't - no man can answer. Most certainly not me.
 
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Well, where to start? Talking about the things that I think you haven't understood correctly is what I've been doing.

Can you summarize what you understand I've been saying so far?
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I think you say I misunderstood ccc 841, ccc 816

Than prove me wrong
 
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HWatts said:
Definitely not. Jesus saves. Not religion. Not even the Christian religion. The Lord does the saving. You'll have to ask Him who He will forgive and who He won't - no man can answer. Most certainly not me.
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No man able to answer who is save, but God say to be save you have to follow Jesus, mean follow the teaching of Jesus,

Do you believe this is the teaching of Jesus ?

Muslim don't believe in Jesus, why catholic say it in the plan of salvation?

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."
 
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Is that verse mean we are God?
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I don't think so. But I think it shows the issue with this syllogism
Christ is God.
We are the body of Christ.
Therefore we are God.

I think the issue is that you each statement, while true, is not all of the truth. For example, Christ is God, but Christ is not all of who God is.
 
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816 "The sole Church of Christ [is that] which our Savior, after his Resurrection, entrusted to Peter's pastoral care, commissioning him and the other apostles to extend and rule it. . . . This Church, constituted and organized as a society in the present world, subsists in (subsistit in) the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him."

The Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism explains: "For it is through Christ's Catholic Church alone, which is the universal help toward salvation, that the fullness of the means of salvation can be obtained. It was to the apostolic college alone, of which Peter is the head, that we believe that our Lord entrusted all the blessings of the New Covenant, in order to establish on earth the one Body of Christ into which all those should be fully incorporated who belong in any way to the People of God."
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Help me to understand the first sentence

"The sole Church of Christ [is that] which our Savior, after his Resurrection, entrusted to Peter's pastoral care"

What is sole mean

A lot or the only?
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Sole probably means only in that context.
There was only one Church. Most Protestants agree with that.
but I don't think you're going to understand the Catholic teaching on the church unless you're willing to go step by step.
 
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The deviation is too wide.
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Do you have a list of what doctrines a person must believe in order to be a Christian?

How much of a deviation can there be before you say they are not a Christian?
 
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Jackson123 said:
Read ccc 841

It say Muslim in the plan of salvation

841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes...
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Not quite, it says "The plan of salvation also includes..."
 
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Jackson123 said:
Can you show me official doctrine that support you point?
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Sure!

Romans 6: 3 "Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection."

In baptism we are united with Christ.

But that's probably not what you meant by official document.

The thing is, Catholic teaching goes back two thousand years. So you can't really pick out a sentence somewhere and say that it contains the whole of Catholic teaching.
 
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Jackson123 said:
Not state but it imply

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."
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I don't see that implication in there.
 
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Jackson123 said:
I don't understand you question.

Don't it say Muslim profess and hold the faith of abraham

And together with us adore the one mercy God?
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They talked about many people besides Muslims. Who all do they talk about?
 
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Jackson123 said:
I think you say I misunderstood ccc 841, ccc 816

Than prove me wrong
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To do that is going to require a step-by-step approach so that we can be sure we are understanding each other along the way, imo.
 
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