Greetings and peace be with you Hugo,
This seems not quite right, not overly important but:
1. Abraham went into the region called Moriah not the mountain, Genesis Chapter 22
Thanks for the correction, I guess I just listened to our Jewish guide, and she called the place Mount Moriah. Having walked over the place, I would call it a large hill in the city of Jerusalem.
2. It is not the mount that links Judaism, Christianity and Islam its the idea of the oneness of God as revealed in a shared history.
I agree with your statement, however my question was not directly intending to debate, the oneness of God.
In Jerusalem there is controversy about a number of sites, and we were shown two places each for the tomb of Christ, and the place of the last supper. There are a number of deep holes around the city, which look like wells. When you look down, you see a wall running down the hole, and the floor is thirty or forty feet down. The floor is were the road was two thousand years ago, so the real history of Jerusalem is about thirty feet below much of the present city.
I appreciate the Temple has been torn down and rebuilt, but my question still troubles me and won’t go away.
I guess my question makes more sense if you actually go there, see the structures, and witness the tensions. So why should God bring all these things together in one place, knowing that we would hold conflicting attachments to this place.
Now it is past my bedtime.
In the spirit of searching for God.
Eric