Is Your God Real? | Episode 224

<blockquote> <p><strong>Psalm 25:14 says, “The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.”</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Is the God you believe in real to you?</p> <p>How do you reconcile that relationship?</p> <p> </p> <p>How can we have a deeper friendship with God? How can we grow in intimacy with him, so that he reveals himself in such a way that we can more effectively worship him and serve others?</p> <p>I was down in the dumps, you know that is where I hang out now since my wife had her surgery, the dumps.  And I was drinking my morning coffee trying to get the caffeine to perk me up a little.  I was readying a text a long test from a musician and guitar builder.  He went all in and told me in the longest text message of 2022 this:<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p> </p> <blockquote> <p>I am an atheist and don’t understand faith in a higher power but know there will never be comfort in atheism.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I will tell you for the last year or two, I have been getting signals from somewhere on a daily basis. I am thoroughly convinced there is something more. I personally think both the the concept of a god as well as the concept of evolution are completely and equally absurd. No way evolution is naturally occurring and no way there is a god controlling everything. It’s also absurd there are only 2 possibilities ever discussed.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>I have this conversation regularly with a friend who is a Greek Orthodox, born again Christian and an Injury Lawyer. He is finally agreeing with me. It’s clear to me the Bible is man made. There is zero evidence of a higher being. All the stories contain only things that were known to man at that time. Any conversation with a higher being would have contained content not known to man “at that time.” When you talk to a scientist, they don’t tell you things you know. They tell you things they see under a microscope. Things you clearly do not know f