We begin with the Bible statement of our common humanity. It was to this that Paul appealed when addressing the Athenians on Mars Hill; a people who considered themselves to be superior in every way to all other peoples. The apostle said in Acts 17.26-28: 'From one man he made every nation of men that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him; though he is not far from each one of us.