ABSTRACT
Christians agree with the Jewish experience that God is met in history and that such meetings generate relationship. Roman Catholics and many other Christians hold that God's self-disclosure to human beings is at essence an interactive process. God is known to us through historical experience, and as a result of that experience Jews are called to accept that God as the one and only, the foundation for ethical monotheism. Generally in the Bible, God chose an individual to receive an intimate glimpse of the divine—Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Manoah, Hannah, and Solomon. The children of Israel had worshiped a molten calf while Moses was on Mount Sinai meeting with God. Jews and Christians have similar ideas about God's characteristics of love and mercy and about the human requirement to respond to God by pursuing love and justice and forgiveness. These similarities can be seen in the central prayers of both traditions.
