Timeline for Is doctrinal unity enforced in Islam and if so, How?
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| Jan 27, 2017 at 17:09 | history | edited | G. Bach | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2017 at 20:03 | vote | accept | TheIronKnuckle | ||
| Jan 18, 2017 at 23:26 | comment | added | G. Bach | @TheIronKnuckle It's just the mechanism by which the necessary doctrines are identified that is different; in Catholicism, you go by divine authority invested in a person (or small legislating body), in Islam they go by divine authority invested in the community of scholars. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 23:24 | comment | added | G. Bach | @TheIronKnuckle A holier than thou attitude is useless in understanding what's going on, or in relaying facts. If you want to go with orthodox teaching and say "whoever doesn't believe a single dogma is not a Catholic", then intellectual honesty requires you to take the same approach to Muslims - "whoever doesn't believe a single necessary doctrine is not a Muslim". In that sense, there are many people who think they are Muslim, but are in fact kuffar, and there are probably hundreds of millions of people counted as Catholic due to having been baptised, but are not Catholics doctrinally. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 23:03 | comment | added | TheIronKnuckle | I'll also note that the Catholics you describe in the first paragraph are not real Catholics, we call them "Cafeteria Catholics", they are a real disease in the church and will be punished severely in the afterlife. Technically what they are doing should lead to the punishment of everlasting torture in Hell, however it's not quite that simple thanks to the idea of invincible ignorance and God's mercy. | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 22:58 | comment | added | TheIronKnuckle | Very interesting. So Islam is closer to the modern protestant scholarly approach: The consensus of the scholars determines the doctrine of the religion. I'll note that a similar thing happens in Catholicism up to a point: The bishops and theologians debate and study an issue extensively before it becomes dogma, however once it becomes dogma, the argument is over and the results of the discussion must be believed. | |
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| Jan 18, 2017 at 10:20 | history | answered | G. Bach | CC BY-SA 3.0 |