Let’s be up front. There is something about the self-understandings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam that can sound pretty arrogant.
In an interfaith dialogue event last night I heard the Jewish representative explain how Israel was called to be a “light to the nations,” a moral and spiritual example calling people to return to the covenant God made with all humanity through Noah. The Christian representative explained that Christians call all people to the truth Christ most fully and uniquely represents. And the Muslim representative explained how although there have been many prophets, Muhammad is the final prophet, the Qur’an the primal, complete, and final revelation, so that all humans should follow Muhammad and his teaching.
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