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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.
– – –
+ “I believe your gravity is okay for you, but my gravity is different.”
Okay, show me an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
+ “Your truth is not my truth.”
Is that true ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
+ 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.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That does take care of evolution—it doesn’t even have a starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n
May I suggest getting close to God on His terms—simple, clear, true, final, good, exclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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