I believe I’m close to god when . . .
. . . when I’m close to nature.
. . . when I’m helping someone.
. . . when I listen to my favorite music.
. . . when I’m alone.
. . . whenever I feel like it.

Lots of people claim that.
That makes LOTS of different ways to get close to God.
Wonder if God agrees with all those ways—God who made everything and everybody ?

Does the natural world have that freedom to operate every which way ?
No, only people have freedom to make up anything we want to believe, and expect it to fit into reality in the spiritual world.
In other words, we see the natural world has order, run by consistent laws.
But we then count on the spiritual world to be completely random, run by and answerable to eight billion different, fluctuating ideas from wishful thinking.
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+ “I believe your gravity is okay for you, but my gravity is different.”
Okay, show me an example.

+ “Your truth is not my truth.”
Is that true ?

+ Someone challenged God, saying he could make anything God says He created, by using evolution.”
God said okay.
“I started with nothing—what are you going to start with ?”
The person said he would start with a bucket of slimy mud and turn it into everything.
God answered, “Go get your own mud.”

That does take care of evolution—it doesn’t even have a starting point.

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May I suggest getting close to God on His terms—simple, clear, true, final, good, exclusive.

A one hour film on the book by Eric Metaxas.

I listened to Eric interviewed by Frank Turek.

Strongly recommend seeing it—watch the trailer online, then rent.

Eric draws the serious parallels between the 1930’s German church and today’s American church.

The folly of the Jonestown massacre/suicide of 1978 is currently rivaled by the massive, universal, unrestrained compulsion to swallow/gulp the deadly DEI cool-aid, sweeping our country like a tsunami.

The culture is becoming a cult that has bought into the demonic lie of diversity, equity, inclusion promising utopian answers to human problems.

Identifying, alienating, eliminating the cause—that is, the people standing in the way of dismantling the wrong foundation and beliefs—this is prerequisite to freeing society for rebuilding better.

The stage is set for repeating failed promises/attempts for paradise.
People soon forget to apply the lessons of history to today.
As soon as recycled ideas and places to blame gain a hearing, and someone acquires influence and power to implement them, promises turn into purging, and nice ideas turn into nightmares.

Someone masterfully determined that the magic words of DEI could be marketed across the board at this time, and nothing is stopping it.
And just like Germans in the 1930’s, Americans today won’t stand up against it until it is too late (history past equals history present).
And in both countries, the church and Christians are more focused on compatibility and comfortable than speaking up and acting, because it could cost—it would.

The price of freedom never goes on sale.