Are you looking forward to the day that Prptestant and Catholic Christians will unite! Judeo-Christian unity?

Question

I have heard of Christians who think they can be BOTH Muslims AND Christian. Is that possible?

I don't think the gap can be closed today, but can we look forward to a brighter day, when those who love the living GOD will be brothers?

I am not sure how we can unite, but "what is impossible with man" IS POSSIBLE, WITH GOD!

Can't personkind live together as brothers???

I am the son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father. We went through various faiths, and ended up Protestant.

I regret finding fault with the Jewish faith of all my relatives on my mom's side of the family. I said "Why did Jews stop sacraficing, if you think Jesus did not pay our debt for sin, finally, by dying as our substitute???

I did not buy the answers. God forgive me if I harmed any one by raising that question.

I never went to bible college, nor studied theology in college. I know what the Bible, the Holy Spirit, teachers and preachers taught me.

Ditto for Catholic issues about Papal infallibility, not praying direcly to God, graven images of non-Diety Mary, etc.

I regret any thing I've done to hurt any one with my questions, or answers; although I still have issues!

Needless to say, ALL my relatives, on dad's side of the family are Catholic.

In trying to shed light on their path, I may have spread darkness with my criticisms of the Vatacan. Sorry.

Answer 1

Yes.

"The Catholic Church embraces with hope the commitment to ecumenism as a duty of the Christian conscience enlightened by faith and guided by love…Jesus himself, at the hour of his Passion, prayed 'that they may all be one' (John 17:21)." -- Pope John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint, May 25, 1995.

The Catholic Church in the United States already has the following open dialogs with her sister Churches:

- The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation
- The Joint Committee of Orthodox and Catholic Bishops
- The Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation
- The Polish National Catholic-Roman Catholic Dialogue
- The Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation USA
- The Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue
- Roman Catholic-Reformed Consultation
- The United Methodist-Catholic Dialogue
- Southern Baptist Convention-Catholic Dialogue
- The Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue
- Faith and Order Commission, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
- Consultation with the National Council of Synagogues
- Consultation with the Orthodox Union and the Rabbinical Council of America
- Midwest Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
- Mid-Atlantic Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims
- West Coast Dialogue of Catholics and Muslims

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_doc_31101999_cath-luth-joint-declaration_en.html

http://www.usccb.org/seia/officialdialogues.shtml

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Why did Jews stop sacraficing, if you think Jesus did not pay our debt for sin, finally, by dying as our substitute???

We have no Temple to do sacrifices in. Besides, no human could ever pay the debt for another person's sin, it is against Torah. Also, we never needed a blood sacrifice to be forgiven of sins anyway.

But I am sure your pastor has given you the rhetoric on all of this.

Judeo-Xian is a made up word, and no such thing exists.

Yes, I am looking forward to the day Protestants and Catholics unite, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.

Answer 3

I don't believe it will happen.

Its impossible to be a Muslim and a Christian at the same time. Anyone who makes such a claim does not under Christianity and does not understand Islam.

There won't be unity until God sends His angels to removed the real Christians out of each of our denomintions and brings us home for the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Pastor Art

Answer 4

Insofar as Islam denies the doctrine of the Trinity, and the divinity of Jesus Christ, it is not possible to embrace both Islam and Christianity.

And insofar as the governments in some Muslim countries have outlawed the organized practice of any faith but Islam, meaning that Christians nor Jews are not free to worship together in these countries, it would not be possible for any Muslim to practice Christianity in these lands.

But outside these lands, for example, here in the United States, it is certainly possible for practicing Christians and practicing Muslims to live as friends and neighbors, in mutual respect. And most do.

Many Protestants and Catholics also live together in mutual charity.

------------------

Michael, to work together with men and women of good will toward greater peace and understanding is the most beautiful and important work that there is. I think your post represents an important contribution to that work today. Thank you!

Answer 5

I can appreciate that Jesus was Jewish without collapsing all faiths into the jewish faith. I believe in tolerance for all faiths, but can't reconcile some of the differences. For example, either Jesus was uniquely the son of God or he wasn't. We can't claim both things, but we can have respect for people who believe either way.

Answer 6

LOL Judeo- Christian Unity?

So who is wrong? The Jews or the Christians?

One believes Jesus was a fraud and blasphemor!

One believes Jesus is God and the "Prophet Priest and King"!

WHERE IS THE UNITY? One has to be right and one has to be wrong? At the end of time if the Jews convert - THEY WONT BE JEWS... It will just be Christian Unity.


(WHO COMES UP WITH THIS JUDEO-CHRISTIAN STUFF)

Answer 7

Personally I don't have a problem with the believers. I don't accept some of the Catholic doctrines but I don't dislike the people. Their new pope gives me the all-overs, though...he looks like Hannibal Lecter.

Answer 8

Read the Epistle Dedicatory of Bible Translators.
Their position is neither Protestant nor Catholic.
They make three wishes for king and kingdom.
Point: Grace is not Law Law, nor Law vs Law.

Answer 9

You would have to get all the denominations of the Protestant faith to unite first. And that will never happen.

Answer 10

Only when we get to Heaven, is that going to happen.