Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics
[ 4 ]Ibn Taymiyyah, ‘‘The Status of the
Arabic Language in Islam.’’
[ 5 ]Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), ‘‘How I
Came to Islam,’’ Institute of Islamic
Information and Education,
[ 6 ]For example, many evangelical and
fundamentalist Protestants believe that
one merely needs to accept Jesus as his
or her ‘‘personal Lord and Savior’’ to
be saved. Nothing further is required on
the part of the believer; no later sin will
keep one from Heaven. This is the
doctrine of eternal security.From a
Catholic perspective, this is a little too
simplistic and presumptuous. The
Church has always taught that while
salvation is indeed the free gift of God
to be received in faith, an individual
