Question 110 – Do we adore God together with the Muslims?

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This is not true, there is a reference from Lumen Gentium number 16 and I explained this in my book ‘Christus Vincit’, this is simply not true. It is highly ambiguous doctrinally because we cannot adapt together with the Muslims, this is impossible. Our adoration as Christians and Catholics is always on the supernatural level. We always adore as adopted children of God through holy baptism. The Muslims, are not baptized, they are not children of God and they can only adore on a natural level. 

If there are, let us say, simple Muslim people that don't know, let us say,  the Quran and they simply adore God, according to them, in the light of natural reason; they can adore the Creator but they can only do this on the natural level. So substantially, they have different levels of prayer. So substantially different that we cannot be together. And this is a wrong statement in Lumen Gentium, that we can, together. 

Well, we could say that we Catholics and Muslims adore the same God. It could be in the sense that these Muslims are simply adoring the Creator, according to natural reason. These could be but not together. They adore God according to the natural level – according to the light of natural reason, and we adore God on the supernatural level, substantially different, from the Trinity. It is the same God because there is only one God. They (Muslims) cannot acknowledge Him as the Trinity; we (Catholics) believe Him as God, the Trinity. 

On another aspect, there are Muslims who have a wrong knowledge of God Himself. Based on the Quran, they have an erroneous understanding of God. And so, their worship is a deficient work. This is also another aspect, not only with their natural level of worship but also with their erroneous image of God, and therefore there is an erroneous act of worship according to this wrong image of God. So, you see, there are different aspects; therefore, this statement is wrong and should be corrected.