Is Allah and the Christian God one and the same?
5 October 2015
The present time witnesses mass Islamization of Europe, which is promoted by the USA in cooperation with the Vatican. On 6 September 2015, pseudo Pope Francis launched a programme of destruction of Christianity and European civilization. He demands that every parish, every monastery and every sanctuary throughout Europe should host a so-called Muslim family. This is a betrayal of the faith and violation of the sovereignty of individual European states. The fruit of Francis’ “mercy” shall be nationwide Islamization of Europe through suicidal Catholics.
A synod held at Constantinople in 1180 adopted a formula holding that Allah is not the God of the Bible. The synod also adopted the formula of solemn abjuration of the faith in Allah and his prophet Muhammad which was exacted from Muslim converts to Christianity before receiving the sacrament of Baptism. This was also the practice of the Orthodox Church in Russia, where Muslim minorities existed.
The Byzantine apologists of the Christian faith against Islam were e.g.: St John Damascene; Bartholomew of Edessa; Gennadius, Patriarch of Constantinople; the Latin apologists: St Thomas Aquinas; Peter of Cluny; Raymond Lull; Dominican friar Richard; John of Torquemada.
Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and rose again on the third day, historically and really. His Resurrection is the strongest evidence that all that He said in the Gospel is true. Furthermore, the Resurrection is the evidence of His Divinity. Assuming our human nature through the Blessed Virgin and the Holy Spirit, He revealed the mystery of the Holy Trinity: there is one God in three persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The heresy saying that Allah is the same as the Triune God was implied in the Nostra aetate declaration of Vatican II (1965). However, the Muslims themselves deny this heresy.
If there was unity between the two, the Koran would not order Muslims to kill non-Muslims and above all “the people of the Covenant”, i.e. Jews and Christians. Therefore, the God of Christians and the Allah of Islam are two diametrically different beings.
The Bible testifies: “Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either.” So true Catholic and Orthodox believers never identify the Christian God the Father with Allah who calls for a bloody slaughter of all Christians. To put it concretely, Muslims cut their heads off in a ritual and accompany it with prayers to Allah. This actually reminds of human sacrifices in pagan rites.
Modern heretics with the so-called spirit of ecumenism and interfaith dialogue deceive the common believers by so-called peace prayers and various gestures. John Paul II kisses the Koran and prays with pagans who “sacrifice to demons” (1Cor 10:20).
One must know that the Allah of Islam is not the same as the Triune God of Christians!
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