Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair. There's an ancient story of blind men

investigating an elephant. In their investigation they come up to the elephant and

begin examining it by touch.

One man approaches at the trunk and determines that an elephant is like a thick snake.

Another approaches it at the ear and says, no, it's like a thin fan.

While another grabs it by the leg and explains to them the elephant is more like a very large

tree trunk.

Another felt him along his side and decided the elephant is like a wall.

While another still grasts it by the tail and describes it as a rope, the final

blind man feels the tusk and states the elephant is hard and smooth like a spear.

Which one of these men is right?

All of them?

None of them?

Well, this parable has often been used as a metaphor

for God and different world religions.

See the elephant represents God, the blind men, the world's different religions.

Each believes he is right about God.

But all of them are actually experiencing different parts of God.

None of them have the whole picture. They're all right and yet none of them all have the

full picture. Together they may begin to discover who God really is.

As the logic goes, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists all reveal different parts of God.

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