Comments on a Washington Post Editorial

I read with interest Kathleen Parker’s recent editorial in the Washington Post, “Which Prayers Count?” I wrote to ask her to clarify a statement she made. Maybe it’s a matter of semantics.

Her column stated, “(Franklin) Graham said that Muslims and Hindus don’t pray to the same God he does,” and in my opinion, she ridiculed him for that. Keep in mind however, that Graham prays to a God who is described in a Book. The banner headline of this Book could easily read, “There is One God and I’m It.” This God said things like, “You shall have no other gods besides me. You shall not make idols, or any likeness of what is in heaven or earth or water.” In other words, don’t worship anything or anyone else, just me. Incredibly narrow. Incredibly exclusive. He repeats himself over and over. Same message throughout the whole Book. One God and He’s it.

He also said don’t add to my Book. When the final word of The Revelation was written, that was it…the end. No other revelations after that.

He sent his Son to earth. His name was Jesus and he is described in the book as God’s only Son. In fact, to substantiate my claim of how narrow this God is, his Son said, “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, (the God in this Book) except through me.” Pretty much leaves out any other avenue. And it’s written in the Book....a direct quote.

So if Muslims and Hindus or whoever for that matter, have a god who looks, thinks, acts, directs differently than the God of this book, it just can’t be the same one. Their god doesn’t fit Graham’s God description which really isn’t open to interpretation because a complete description is given in…the Book. And theirs just doesn’t fit the description. Kind of like insisting someone is Kathleen Parker who isn’t! She may sound like her, look like her, act like her, but there’s just one Kathleen Parker, not two or twenty. Same here. The conclusion has to be, they worship and pray to a god, but it’s not this God, Graham’s God.

I think often the problem is that people who pass judgment on Graham’s God, or speak on behalf of his God or make statements that do not align with the basic teachings of the Bible have never read The Book much like Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder testified before Congress, giving their opinion on the new Arizona law when neither had read it.

Start the search of what this God says about Himself with Genesis keeping this in mind…He shares His glory with no other gods. Those are His words, not mine.

Are you writing the authors of the editorials you read?!