With whom you stay, with whom you pray
The “one pervasive faith” shared by all world religions is the
converting realization that, as C.S. Lewis put it, “God is God, and I
am not!” Great religions of this world witness to the great God of
“all that is, seen and unseen” in the words of the Nicene Creed. Our
God is infinitely superior to the gods we make of pleasure,
accumulation, power, security, success and self. “God is God; I am
not!”
The great world religions have arisen and continue to flourish at
different places in various times. That this is so is testimony to
the revelation of the God who is God always and everywhere, as
Christian worship puts it, “at all times and in all places.” At all
moments in history, in all places of this universe and among all
peoples, God is God!
THE VERY REV’D CANON
PETER D. HAYNES
St. Michael & All Angels
Episcopal Church
It happens that the Middle East was the cradle of civilization, so
it is natural that God sent his prophets and envoys and messengers
there to guide humanity. However, political, cultural and economic
factors caused the major religions that came from there -- Judaism,
Christianity and Islam -- to spread from the Middle East to Europe,
Asia and other areas of the world. For God, there is no difference
between one part of the world and another, but because there was a
large concentration of people in certain areas on the earth at one
time, divine revelation began there.
IMAM MOUSTAFA
AL-QAZWINI
Islamic Educational Center
of Orange County
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