Tell It to the Judge, Part I: Judged by the Company You Keep

The Book of Judges. In the book what we see is a cycle of sin and disobedience to God over and over. The people repent and cry to God for help. Their deliverance comes when God raises up a temporary leader, or judge, to save them. Over the course of the book and over time, both the people and the judges become increasingly corrupt, mirroring the ways of surrounding nations. In the beginning of Judges we see the tail end of the conquest of the Book of Joshua.

Judges 1:1-6 After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the Lord, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?” The Lord said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.” And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.”

There are three main things that can be seen in this passage. I will elaborate on them over the next three posts. The first one is that before taking in hand any important matter I need to seek god's direction in prayer (v. 1). In verse 1 its says, “Israel inquired of the Lord.”  This is always the best place to start. Praying or looking to God in the midst of change, stress or struggle. I’ve seen this in my own life. I am going through it now in the process of changing jobs.

The key point is to seek God before acting, even through the stress of facing a major transition. I didn’t just seek God asking Him to bless a decision we’ve already made—I literally asked Him to direct the decision in the first place to the point that I believe he gave me signs to do so. Transitional times are times when a person especially needs God’s direction. In Judges, Joshua was gone, and Israel was entering a new season. Likewise, changing jobs can bring uncertainty about finances, relationships, responsibilities, and the future.

Prayer should come before action. Israel didn’t immediately decide which tribe should attack. They first “asked the Lord.” God may give direction one step at a time. Thereby encouraging or even forcing us to go to Him in prayer continually to determine each subsequent step. God answered Israel’s question specifically: “Judah shall go up.” He did not give Israel the entire plan at once though. Likewise, I may not receive the whole plan for my future, but I can ask God to show us the next faithful step. Seeking God doesn’t mean there will be no difficulty. Judah still had to fight. Prayer doesn’t necessarily remove the challenge; it puts us in the right posture to face it mentally. Our confidence ultimately rests in God’s leading. God said, “I have given the land into his hand.” Israel’s success was ultimately dependent upon God rather than their own strength. Yet…there were actions the Israelites had to perform themselves. Just as I had to put the next step of my plan in motion by resigning and entering into a risky period of no pay and no healthcare.

This means I had to start distrusting my own wisdom. I was already having misgivings as to my motives to take the job I just resigned from. What I realized is seeking God’s direction means more than asking God to bless my plans. It means being willing to surrender my plans to His answer if it does not align with mine. The job I have inevitably taken is one I normally wouldn’t have. My previous job was one I thought was an easy decision. In these two instances, logic was flipped. God’s will should’ve been abided by. I believe only in the most recent scenario this path was followed. The decision to take the last job as based in my understanding and aligned with my comfort zone. A mistake to be sure. All events are in the hands of God's unerring providence even the decision to take the last job. It was to fulfill something God desired of me even if it is not plainly evident. Success and failure should always prompt us to look to God for guidance. Nothing is a failure in God's plan.

Is what is happening now God’s genuine will for me? I guess I need to ask myself: (1) Am I genuinely asking God what He wants, or am I asking Him to confirm what I already want? (2) Am I willing to accept “no” or “wait” as an answer? (3) Are my motives being shaped by Scripture, prayer, wise counsel—or by comfort, money, frustration, or fear? (4) Am I trusting God’s providence even when I cannot see how everything will work out? As my father used to say, "To make a deal, you have to be willing to walk away from it."

There is also a good balance here. Seeking God doesn't mean becoming paralyzed and waiting for some extraordinary sign. I use Scripture, prayer, wisdom, counsel, circumstances, and godly judgment, while recognizing that God remains sovereign over the outcome.

There is a counterbalance to the idea to whether I am in my will, or God’s outlined in Jeremiah 41. A passage that helps me assure whether or not I am in God’s will. The Israelites are already engaged in change or trial and are looking for direction…

Jeremiah 41: 1-3 Then all the army officers, including Johanan son of Kareah and Jezaniah[a] son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest approached 2 Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray to the Lord your God for this entire remnant. For as you now see, though we were once many, now only a few are left. 3 Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.”

In verse 7 or as the narrative states, ten days later God answered Jeremiah’s petition.

Jeremiah 41:10-16 If you stay in this land, I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I have relented concerning the disaster I have inflicted on you. Do not be afraid of the king of Babylon, whom you now fear. Do not be afraid of him, declares the Lord, for I am with you and will save you and deliver you from his hands. I will show you compassion so that he will have compassion on you and restore you to your land.’ “However, if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and so disobey the Lord your God, and if you say, ‘No, we will go and live in Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the trumpet or be hungry for bread,’ then hear the word of the Lord, you remnant of Judah. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and you do go to settle there, then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow you into Egypt, and there you will die.

The Jeremiah passage gives me a particularly powerful sentence to incorporate into my lesson here: I must be careful that my interpretation of God’s will is not simply my own desires dressed in a facade and religious clothing. Unfortunately, as is often the case, I have asked God's direction, hoping that the answer will be in alignment  with my own desires, and then do my best to twist it into that alignment. Sadly, what I do when I do this is I am confabulating God’s holy answer with my own sin/error. Even then, God can bend my disobedience and sin to His will. He can bend out mistakes to His desired outcome. Regardless, when seeking God's guidance, special care should be taken so to humble my will. I need to be able to do that so that I can be ready to act upon the answer God gives me. No matter how contrary it may be to my own heart. This exact idea fits with Judges because the larger problem in the book is that Israel repeatedly did what was right in their own eyes. The book begins with Israel asking God, “Who shall go up first?”—but as the story progresses, they increasingly stop looking to God and follow their own wisdom.

As a human this can be very hard to accept especially when cases of financial loss, sacrifice of worldly advantages or pleasures, self-humiliation and self-denial, resentment, jealousy, pride, vanity, praise are at stake. We’re all human. We’re all flawed. All have desires contrary to the will of God. I need to crush them and align myself to God.

What ways do I "Ask the Lord" concerning the course I need to pursue? I have a few tried and true courses of action.

(1) First and foremost I pray and engage conversation with God directly. Its a relationship first.

(2) Secondly, if God doesn’t plainly reveal it in the Scripture, He can impress it upon my mind directly in thought or dream.

(3) Third, I seek the counsel of Scripture. That I will see light and truth from the words that are the expression of the mind and will of God. There is no state of darkness, or confusion as to the path of my duty to God in the Word. In the Bible it is in black and white. Most often my answers to prayer are outlined in the Scripture. It may take a little cleverness and inductive thinking to see the answer, but it’s in there. God’s word is always a light on my path  (Psalm 119:105). There is no question of morality or conduct that the Bible cannot shed truth on. The Bible has an answer for every question if approached with the right heart and mind. The answer must be sought in intelligent, prayerful study, not as a matter of blind chance or in the presumptuous expectation of a miraculous answer.

(4) He can work through others through wise counsel. In this way my own family, friends and acquaintances have acted as judges and prophets in my very own life. The interesting thing about working through others is that some of those others may not even be believers. He can even work through my enemies and has. I am not so arrogant that I cannot learn a lesson vicariously though those I do not like (that is one of the reasons we are called to love our enemies). If God can use Satan to His ends, he can use any method or agency.

The instruments of His will are endless. Suffering, stress, affliction, success and so on. If the answer is sought faithfully and earnestly, it will come eventually. It may not come on my schedule which it often doesn’t but then again…patience isn’t one of my strengths.

An answer will unquestionably come, either by the Spirit suggesting to my mind or strengthening of what is at the time a doubt or lack of confidence, building it into a strong conviction. He will make my decision into firm reasoning by clearing away any last clouds of doubt. This last example being the most powerful form of God answering my prayer and bolstering it to perform the duty he called me to by building me from within. Conviction.

In the end it is not hard to assume my character, morals and decisions match the person, people or things I choose to spend the most time with. The people or things I surround myself with influence the direction of my life for good and bad. Who has the greatest influence on my thinking? The God/god I chose to listen to changes what I worship. Is it the One True God or the god of the world and my own making?

Keeping Your End of the Deal

I am continually pressed to strengthen my faith. Trials and unpleasant events have been a constant in my life since God entered back into it full blast around 2005. I have taken jobs and I have lost jobs. I completed a college degree. I lost a parent and family members. I watched my fiancé suffer through cancer. I have gone through the highs and lows of parenting and watch my sons surmount their own trials. Discomfort has become the norm and comfort is often fleeting.

Each trial and overcoming of trial has built on the last. The trials are common for me and those around me now. They say just one really stressful event in any given year can be traumatizing. I have gone through two or three of them in some years. You learn longsuffering. You learn pain and how God allows you to cope with it. Endurance. Perseverence.

Some of my problems are self-wrought. At times I am unable to remain silent and not tell people truth if I know it is damaging mentally or physically…from the entry level employee to the CEO of companies. What I have found nearly without question is there is a deficit of accountability in society. Many outside observers often point to the unemployed, uneducated clerical position or the youth to blame for this type unaccountability. The real truth is the blight extends all the way to upper managers, leader pastors, political ‘leaders’ and their ilk. It extends to people who in middle-age should know better but chose to sit idle. Passivity is a plague of inaction and has infected a large portion of society. The Bible even condemns it in Luke 12.

Luke 12:48 But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

It is apathy, unaccountability or inaction. It is the reason I’ve just resigned from a high paying job. It was never about the money. It was about making lives better and getting a better return on investment. The problem in the company was the same as the society at large. Most are content to sit on what they have and make little effort to either maintain or gain by investing energy and time. In layman’s terms sloth or laziness in abundance.

There’s an important distinction above between suffering and personal formation though. The events themselves—divorce, losing employment, completing a degree, losing parents, watching my children struggle and grow—aren’t necessarily good or bad things in themselves. What I’m saying is that, over time, surviving them has produced capacities that I did not possess before: Patience, endurance, longsuffering, and an increased ability to tolerate discomfort without immediately needing it removed. I get time to learn from the pain as I walk through it. The grind in life is the same as the pain of bearing the tonnage of weightlifting. The pain produces strength. I was born to be a spiritual pack mule.

James speaks of the testing of faith producing steadfastness; Paul likewise connects suffering, endurance, character, and hope. The point isn't that Christians are supposed to enjoy suffering but we’re not to avoid it either. In my life I have run directly towards it. That is the difference between my pro-activity and hyper focus to achieve a goal and the passivity of others whether it be as a lifter or a leader of people in work or the Body of Christ. Faith becomes something tested and emboldened when circumstances give you reasons to abandon it.

The accountability end of my comment comes in at this point because it connects directly to the second half of what I wrote. I have a conviction that being entrusted with something creates an obligation to act, not merely an entitlement to possess it. These statements are not restricted to money or formal authority. I can be entrusted with knowledge, intelligence, responsibility, influence, employees, a congregation, children, or simply the ability to recognize that something is wrong. In each case, the question becomes: What did I do with what I was given?

That's also why my frustration with passivity and lack of accountability runs much deeper than ordinary dissatisfaction. It is a spiritual discontent. I’m not merely saying, “These people aren't working hard enough.” I’m saying, “These people have been entrusted with something, they know what needs to be done, and nevertheless they choose to do little or nothing.”

Lastly, I need to address the counter argument. There needs to be a tension even in the unbridled energy I bring to bear on a situation even at almost 60 years old. People are human and some cannot necessarily perform at an exceedingly high level. There is a balance between passive idle and full throttle that is the sweet spot for an engine. Idling gets nothing done. Full throttle burns up an engine and abuses it.

The willingness to tell an uncomfortable truth can be a virtue or a sin. But the conviction that one must always tell that truth can itself become a temptation. Sometimes silence is golden. Ecclesiastes says there is “a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” Paul tells believers to speak the truth in love. Blurting out a truth that will clearly maim someone in spirit is not helpful or productive. Nathan confronted David; John the Baptist confronted Herod; Christ confronted religious authorities. But Christ also remained silent before His accusers when silence served its purpose. Perhaps the better principle isn't: “If I know something is wrong, I must tell someone.” Instead, it should be, “If God has given me knowledge and responsibility, I must discern whether, when, and how or even if I am obligated to act.”

The distinction matters because otherwise accountability can turn into personal responsibility for everybody else's behavior. In business they call it scope creep. In weight lifting it's called an injury. And that's a burden God hasn't necessarily given me. That is His responsibility to make others see that they need to act. I can tell the CEO what I believe he needs to hear. I can warn the pastor. I can confront the employee. I can resign when remaining would make me complicit in the sin or failure. But after I've faithfully done what I believe God obligated me to do, their response belongs to them and my responsibility ends.

In the end it comes back to faith and realizing I need to turn it over to God after my responsibility in the situation is complete. This is where all of it becomes a faith-building exercise for me. Earlier trials taught me how to endure what happened. The most recent trial seems to have taught me how to release what I can never control. Know when to walk away.

It requires a large amount of faith to say and believe, “God, I have done what I believe You required of me. Now I will trust You with what happens next.” This kind of faith can be extraordinarily difficult for someone like me whose conscience is strongly oriented toward action and accountability, because inaction by other people feels almost like something I am morally compelled to correct. I can’t. My resignation wasn’t about escaping discomfort or trial so much as it was about refusing to spend my strength and energy sustaining a system whose stewards were unwilling to steward it. I can't make others carry their end of the weight. Not all burdens are mine to carry.

I believe this is the lesson I was to learn from this. It was a modern day Parable of the Talents. How did I steward my responsibility (Matthew 25:14–30). My faithfulness is inextricably attached to stewardship. This is not the case for so many others. I was accountable to God. In the end many are not. 

Romans 14:12: “So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”

Stewardship asks the question: What have I done with what God gave me?

Accountability asks the question: What will I say when I must answer to God for it?

Faithfulness asks the question: Was I faithful with what I was entrusted with?

A Bird on Barbwire

The greatest lie ever told about totalitarianism by the left is that totalitarian movements are in fact a few strong men or Übermensch imposing their will on the unwilling participants. That people like Trump or Gavin Newsom are the embodiment of this at the federal or state levels.  The opposite of this is actually true. This subtle correction to the simplistic "dictator imposes tyranny on everyone" model flips the script on the mindless liberal assertion of one powerful person taking over the masses.

Totalitarian movements generally require mass participation, or at least substantial popular mobilization. They don't merely suppress an unwilling society from above; they seek to transform society from within-through propaganda, ideological conformity, political organizations, rallies, protests, surveillance and pressure to demonstrate enthusiasm organically that is actually artificial.

The paradox is that coercion and consent can coexist and are not mutually exclusive. A population may initially embrace a movement (BLM, Trans rights, etc, participate actively in and genuinely believe its ideology, while the resulting regime simultaneously destroys alternatives and makes dissent increasingly dangerous and then destroys these ‘useful idiots’.

Hannah Arendt emphasized something like this in The Origins of Totalitarianism. Totalitarian movements drew power from mass society and sought to organize otherwise politically atomized people into an ideological movement. In other words, the rogues, those left out or perceived as left out or the lone gunmen and lunatics. The "strong man" is therefore not the whole explanation; the movement and its mass base matter enormously if it is to succeed. A distinction needs to be made though.

Authoritarianism primarily asks people to obey. Totalitarianism seeks to mobilize them -to make them participate in, identify with, and reproduce the ideology of the regime. That is the reason totalitarianism can be more socially invasive and violent than ordinary dictatorship. That is why we are seeing a mobilization of the weak and marginalized in society to protest law-abiding agents of change such as ICE and other paramilitary organizations incorporated by the sitting government.

Recruiting the weak and the isolated creates a mass of weak individuals that imposes its will on a majority of sane and responsible citizens. We see it in the transgender movement, in the lunacy of the post partum killer Lindsay Clancy, and similar support of otherwise insane ideologies. At its core it is cultural Marxism. For this Marxism to take over it needs to isolate and kill of its main threat. The masculine male in a traditional male role…father, soldier, leader. Modern progressives believe that if they suppress the male drive toward strength, tyranny stays caged. They have it completely backwards and support the destructive outcome of putting weak morally rudderless males or even morally debased women in charge.

This ‘collectivism’ runs on social causes regardless of how depraved or mental they are. They enforcement by what should be considered ‘consensus enforcement’ or the ‘will of the mob’. What Americans should really be doing is shifting our focus from the so-called dictator or predator complex (Trump as Hitler) and realize that we need focus on the isolated individual as a recruit for collective power and the recruiters. The people like those supporting Lindsey Clancy, the would-be assassins of Trump and the morally bankrupt media recruitment agents. They are the cooperative agents in the hidden tyrannical takeover.

In other worlds, true totalitarians regimes exploit isolated and politically aggravated people. This applies to both sides of the aisle in America too. Both view themselves as the underdog and oppressed. Both willing to resort to violence to make a point. The left being quicker to pull the trigger than the right. The truth and time has shown that suppressing individual strength doesn't necessarily prevent tyranny; if anything, a population of fragmented, dependent, and socially insecure individuals are easier for an organized movement to mobilize.

The protesting of the oddball left therefore needs to be seen as ‘consensus enforcement’ and is born of a weak population too beta-ized and demasculinized to stand on its own. Through this weakness the true dictator steps in to take advantage of the weak and feebleminded. People who outsource their lives to the state and look to it for rescue from an existence they cannot bear. Ostracism, reputational ruin, and cancellation work best on those too frail to face rejection. A mind that judges independently, backed by a spine willing to absorb the anger that follows, is the only thing that stands against a mass movement. That is exactly why ‘acceptance’ is not only desired by the progressive left, it is demanded.

The one trait that defends against this tyranny, masculinity, is then labeled as toxic an undesirable, harmful of even extreme. There is even a biological and scientific support of this argument. Testosterone in men has fallen roughly 1% a year since the 1980s, a decline the endocrinology literature documents independent of age. A man today carries meaningfully less than his father did at the same stage of life. A growing body of research points one direction. As alcoholism and drug use increase, testosterone falls even more. As testosterone falls, so does the capacity to withstand social pressure. We are building a society where the internal capacity for dissent is falling while institutions raise the penalty for dissenting. Compliance is expected. Compounding this fact, increasingly women, more physically vulnerable by nature, move into positions of power and men grow weaker, the herd instinct that drives every collective movement takes hold due to sheer numbers or rule of the mob, not actual strength.

At this point, the herd is the precondition for every totalitarian project. The volume of sheer numbers an the mindlessness of the mob wins over the individual masculine resistance. Like a white blood cell being overwhelmed by a horde of diseased cells or a malignant cancer. The immune response to stop the spread of contagion is overwhelmed by design. The diseased cell attacks the healthy one by surrounding it, suffocating and killing it.

What is the easiest way to stop this? It is also happens to be the hardest. It requires a critical mass of strong, independent, responsible individuals, enough to outweigh the compliant mass. It begins with the refusal to pretend that sexual perversion and gender identities are okay. That illegal immigrant invaders can just do as they please. That no-fault divorce is okay and raping men blind of everything they invested in a family is a legal recourse for unemployed women with a vendetta. That women can wantonly murder children in the womb and the medical establishment gets away with calling it healthcare.

As Carl Jung wrote, resistance to the organized mass can only be affected by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the parasitic mass is itself. The best defense against a dangerous but organized mass isn't simply physical aggression or "strength," but an individual sufficiently integrated to withstand the psychological cost of disagreeing with the group.

To summarize: Societies become weak and vulnerable when individuals become psychologically, economically, and socially dependent on institutions for identity and security. Conformity is the logical out come in oppressive societies like this because dissent then carries severely higher reputational costs. We all saw this during COVID if someone actively resisted or refused vaccination.  A free society doesn't merely need citizens who are willing to resist a tyrant…it needs citizens willing and capable of resisting their own neighbors and family if morally required. Sometimes...you just have to do the hard thing.

Are You On The List?

The Lamb's Book of Life or the Epstein List? Why would I even ask such a paradoxical question? What's the difference? The difference between them is one decision. It is a single intent that festers into many bad decisions. Sin. Righteousness and unrighteousness. Men are capable of profound good and also profound evil.

Everyone is rightfully horrified by the Epstein files, but most people are horrified by the ending and ignored the process or incidents that led up to the ending. That is why no one is being held to account. The Left has their own people involved so it behooves them to remain silent about it. The right including Trump have told the populace that there is nothing to see in the files and we should move on as an American people…and many have done exactly that. That is likely because people on both sides are complicit also. It is a nest of vipers no matter how one looks at it.

No one held accountable. Victims are victimized twice. Perverts get away with their sins and perversions akin to Caligula’s reign of horror from Capri. We are in fact all somehow complicit if we do not insist justice is still sought for the children abused or killed. Instead many embrace their ideological overlords and ignore what is plainly in their faces. Therein lies a huge part of why politicians, the rich and the famous have not been persecuted and locked away. Other than the rare psychopath, no one wakes up intending to become monstrous. They make one small deal after another. They excuse a small lie, accept a strange invitation, and keep quiet when something feels off. Call it what you will. Moral apathy, intellectual complacency, cowardice, etc.

Many have traded integrity for access, reputation, and influence. Step by step, Americans sell pieces of themselves. As Dostoevsky noted, your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. The quick willingness for political ideologues on the right and the left to forgive their political leaders or heroes are/were not desperate acts of survival. They willingly traded their conscience for a seat at the elite table. That is the real lesson. Not that fame, sex, money, and power inherently corrupt, but that people willingly corrupt themselves in pursuit of them. So it goes for the politicians, rich, famous and even the working class or the general masses.  

Unchecked desire is the process, while moral transgressions are the end point. IT applies to the President of the United States all the way down to the abusive drug addict boyfriend. There is an ancient Native American story that tells of a wolf being hunted. The hunter, wanting to avoid direct confrontation with the dangerous creature, stuck a blade in the ice and coated the blade in blood. When the wolf came upon the blood-soaked ice, he began licking the blade. The blade numbs the wolf’s tongue and it is thinking that he was eating, when in fact he was cutting himself and slowly dying. It keeps licking, unaware it is cutting itself, until it can't tell the difference between frozen blood and its own, then bleeds out in the dark. That is how corruption works. It begins as an appetite and feels like personal advancement or winning. It is a dulling of the senses until there is no sense. The seared conscience of 1 Timothy 4:2.

The truth is the conscience slowly dulls, and by the time the acts are unthinkable, the numbness is complete. The uncomfortable truth is that we as the ordinary people that refuse to force the truth to be brought forward or lazily not force the issue with the perverted elite ruling class have helped create the conditions where justice does not prevail for the weak or the innocent. The Epstein files are not just an indictment on leaders and famous but on us also.

We create the conditions for leaders, famous and rich to operate with impunity. We worship fame, we equate wealth with worth, we kneel before power, we reward the traits that lead people to tables like Epstein's. We water the tree of desire and then gasp in horror when the fruit is rotten.

Accountability matters. God will eventually hold everyone accountable on the Last Day.

Those who cross moral and legal red lines must face consequences. But punishment alone does not cure the disease. The deeper lesson is restraint. Most people, given the chance, would start licking the knife. They believe they would stop in time, but just like the wolf and the frozen blade, by the time you need to stop, you are too numb to do so. So, we arrive where we are today. Numb and morally bankrupt. We idolize the people and things that we should find most abhorrent. We hated the people on Epstein’s list because some of us knew that, in a way, we were on the list indirectly too because of the things we value and the people we look up to. That is why most didn’t make a huge stink when the issue got abruptly dropped.

This is unacceptable and shows a majority of society spiraling unanchored in a moral abyss. Unless we are saved by the acknowledgement of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, we are in effect, all on the list somehow because of what we prioritize as important and what we give our money and attention too. If we are not in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Revelation 3:15, 21:27), we might as well be on Epstein’s list.

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”

Romans 3:11-12 “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.

Stepping Into The Quantum Breach

This post is going to run deep and long. I will be trying to tie the quantum uniqueness into the Biblical worldview. It may be a head scratcher for some but hopefully if you hold on until the end it will mostly make sense. Recent trends in the exploration of the quantum world are bringing to light some strange new realities. Quantum entanglement, quantum tunneling and quantum teleportation all reveal that matter is effectively non-local. That is to say, quantum interactions occur instantaneously over arbitrarily long distances. Quantum entanglement proves that in the quantum world there is no such thing as "over here" and "over there." I will need to define a few things before moving forward.

In short Quantum Entanglement is… when two particles become deeply and inseparably linked, sharing a single physical state. Changing the state of one particle instantly changes the other, even if they are light-years apart. I suggest that this is possible way that God directly interacts with us in the Spirit. In particular the idea that John the Revelator is taken up in the Spirit in Revelation may also be an apropos example of this (Revelation 4:1-2).

In short Quantum Tunneling… is a phenomenon where a particle defies classical physics by passing directly through a solid barrier that it normally shouldn't have enough energy to cross. It essentially behaves like a wave, "bleeding" through the wall and appearing on the other side. I suggest that this is revealed in events following Jesus’ resurrection. Jesus is described as passing through his grave clothes in his resurrected body (John 20:6-7).

In short Quantum Teleportation… says you can move data, not matter instantly. It is a process where the exact quantum state (information) of a particle is transferred to another distant particle, using quantum entanglement. The original particle's state departs, and the particle appears at the destination, without the actual particle traveling through space. I believe this is what we saw when the disciples first saw Jesus after the Resurrection in multiple examples (Luke 24:36–43; John 20:19–23). There was something about Jesus spirit body that allowed him to do all the previous actions, quantum entanglement, tunneling and teleportation.

So…to surmise the first part, quantum non-locality is the phenomenon where entangled particles instantly influence each other's states across any distance, transcending the limits of space and the speed of light. From a biblical worldview, this mirrors the interconnectedness of a creation spoken into existence by the omnipresent Creator, Jesus Christ. It illustrates that the physical universe is fundamentally unified and sustained by a power that transcends physical boundaries, reflecting scriptures like Colossians 1:17, which states that, "in Him all things hold together,” and Hebrews 1:3 which tells us that, “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.”

What man has learned about the quantum level in the last century is that there is no mechanism in quantum mechanics which explains how particles "communicate" with each other superluminally or faster than light. The fact is, there is no superluminal communication; rather there is an extra-dimensional property called "non-locality" which implies that two sub-atomic particles separated by vast distances in space are actually "non-locally" joined together in another dimension. New experiments consistently prove that matter itself, at a quantum level, does not have a strictly "material" reality. It also has alternate reality characteristics. In the Bible I would stretch so far to say, it has spiritual or spirit implications. I suggest the subliminal ‘reality’ is in-fact Christ himself because the Bible tells us He is (Hebrews 1:3).

In these examples we see what the Biblical worldview has always alluded to and accepted. There is a veil between the world of matter and the spirit realm. There are two worlds revealed in the Bible. Jesus frequently talked about this world and the world above. He said to those who opposed Him:

“You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.”John 8:23

There is this material world and there is another world that is above and beyond this physical universe because it exists in a spiritual dimension. These two worlds are separated by an ethereal veil. Even a simple reading of the Bible shows that they are continuously intersecting yet they are two entirely separate worlds. Currently, one is the world constituted by matter and the other is constituted by spirit. At a later date these worlds will, in effect merge as all will have what Paul referred to as the spirit body or σῶμα πνευματικόν/ soma pneumatikon. Both those saved to Christ in eternity and those condemned in torment. How else can one be physically tormented without a body? They will be bodies that will have both the properties of matter/physicality and properties of the ethereal/Spirit. How else would Jesus have been able to materialize or appear in the Upper Room and also eat? Jesus’ spirit body is an example of the First Fruits of the Resurrection and a breach in the veil between worlds

When Jesus walked upon the earth he displayed the supernatural powers of the world above, which He identified as "heaven." Even when He was upon the earth He was still living in this other dimension called heaven. He said, "No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven." (John 3:13) The Heavenly Man, Jesus Christ, displayed heaven on earth and revealed the Kingdom of Heaven everywhere He walked on earth. That is why heaven was where Jesus was. The Kingdom is where the King is/was. Where Jesus walked and performed miracles the effects of the entropy of the Fall of man in Genesis 3 were pushed back and ‘heaven’, the ‘kingdom’ bled through the veil into this world. Corruption and decay was pushed back or overturned completely.

The Gospels continually revealed the Spirit world breaking into our world. The Bible continuously refers to and mentions veils. I do not believe this is by accident.  It is a "veil" that separates the things of heaven and earth. In the Bible, the "veil" primarily refers to the literal and theological curtain in the Tabernacle and Temple that separated humanity from the dwelling place of God (the Holy of Holies). It symbolizes the spiritual barrier between the physical, earthly realm and the supernatural, divine realm. It is no accident that the moment Jesus died, that veil is torn in the Temple. It is a literal and figurative symbol of the line of demarcation between the heavenly and the earthly being pulled down.

Matthew, Mark and Luke all record that at the exact moment that Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom, prophetically symbolizing that through the atonement of Christ the way had been made for humanity to pass "through the veil" (Hebrews 10:20) into this supernatural world called heaven when we die. The only way to approach God’s presence fully is to die and leave this earth. Here we see the truth of Exodus when God tells Moses that, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live." The holiness of God presence prevents the regular physical human from being in front of God without damaging them. They need to change states and only death allows this change.

Elsewhere in the New Testament we encounter another interesting concept that appears to communicate a similar idea to a veil or a separation between the earthly and the spirit. It never actually makes a claim to a change in physical location or proximity though. It makes claim to perception, observation or a state of being. Paul talked about a "mirror" or a "looking glass." He said, "For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face." (1 Corinthians 13:12). In reality Paul is telling us that need to realize our knowledge is incomplete and puzzling. Paul picked up this idea again in 2 Corinthians 3:16 where he deliberately mentions a "veil" is removed when a person turns or more specifically focuses on God. The act of observing things of the heavenly realm changes the state of one’s perception. This sounds strangely akin to the phenomenon of Superposition in Quantum Mechanics that says that…

…observation changes reality because particles double as waves of probability. Before you look at a particle at the sub-atomic level, it exists in multiple possible states or locations at the exact same time. When a measurement or observation occurs, the system interacts with a physical instrument or fully physical realm. This interaction forces the broad wave of probabilities to collapse into a single, definite reality. Essentially, you cannot measure/observe a quantum system without physically disturbing it, meaning the act of looking directly alters the outcome to permanent reality.

Paul taught that whenever someone turns to Christ the veil is taken away and things become clearer or absolute, fixed or...determined. He also implies that when we die and reach our final state we will understand and see fully. Things will be fully realized. He then proceeded to teach that those who have turned to Christ are able to peer through the looking glass into heaven in order to behold the glory of God.

"But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." 2 Corinthians 3:18.

The obvious conclusion is that God is on the other side of the veil. When we are faced with the overwhelming truths of Scripture and then compound them with the enigmas of non-locality, the existence of God and the supernatural intervention of God all over the Bible I believe a clear picture begins to form out of the dark mirror. We can move forward to theorize the relationship between these three fundamental realities of our supernaturally crafted universe. I propose that this invisible layer of quantum reality acts as some kind of interface between the presence and power of God (who exists in the spiritual realm) and the world of matter.

The non-local quantum world appears to be a kind of invisible, intermediate "buffer zone" between spirit and matter. It appears that the non-local quantum realm has been strategically crafted by God to be directly responsive to the influence and activity of the Spirit of God so these non-local quantum realities are capable of "materializing" into a localized spatial formation. Quantum realities are the building blocks of matter. This is an established scientific fact through experimentation but at their rudimentary levels they stop behaving as matter and become something more that is not tied or regulated by the rules of this universe/reality. It is tied to another.

One last note... I believe that we saw breaches in the quantum veil and it makes sense that this is what was being described in the Bible. I’ve already mentioned John in revelation 4 but there are even more pronounced examples. We saw examples of it primarily in two very specific episodes. Firstly, the stoning of Stephen when he sees Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. “Look,” he said, “I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.” Acts 7:55-57

We also see the breach between the earthly and the spirit in Jesus’ transfiguration.

Specifically, I focus on Luke’s account to draw out a contrast of the two realms revealed…

“Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God. About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray. As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning. Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus.” Luke 9:27-30

The word changed here in Greek is ἕτερον /heteron and it means that his face being observed was indeterminate or of an uncertain affinity…’ or of another kind’ or ‘classification’. That is why we say Jesus’ face was transfigured. Transfigured is closer to the truth of what happened than using the word changed. It implies his face was strange (not in a bad way). What were the disciples really seeing? Was the act of looking upon Christ altering their perception of Christ’s holy reality? I believe at the moment of the transfiguration reality around Christ altered and created a breach to the spirit realm. How else would Peter, James and John be able to see Moses and Elijah?

To conclude I will state that the quantum realm has brought us to the very edge of the world of the spirit. From a biblical perspective we understand "spirit" as a dimension beyond space and time. In the world of spirit all the attributes familiar to human existence suddenly change. Similarly, within the quantum world the rules of the game are not at all the same as the rules of the classical physical world we live in. Quantum weirdness is exemplified by realities that are entirely counterintuitive to the world in which we live. In the quantum world electrons can materialize as particles and dematerialize. At times even time itself has no meaning, just as it did for the prophets in the Bible when they were 'in the Spirit'.

Defeat By Trillions of Papercuts

World War III has already started. The U.S. and Iran sat down for 21 hours of peace talks this week and walked away with nothing. Trump is pushing for a $1.5 trillion defense budget. Canada's top general says we need to prepare for large-scale conflict. Mark Carney of Canada just declared that the days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over. Meanwhile, corporate leaders meeting under the World Economic Forum banner admitted that the predictability that once underpinned corporate planning has gone.

The point is, you are living through a once-in-a-century rupture, and the people in charge are only now admitting it. Trump is either too proud, too nationalistic or too dumb to admit it. Western civilization is no longer on the rise. It is fracturing, and the goal now is not to slightly increase the standard of living, it is to survive the geopolitical storm heading straight towards us. People can squabble over which leader or which country is to blame, but that's like being in the middle of a bar fight and focusing on who threw the first punch, when you should really be focused on not getting knocked out.

A far more important question in a fight is who you're standing beside or with and who you're standing against. Those lines are being drawn right now. For the last decade, China and America have been competing for top position on the global markets and exchanges. Secondary Western nations are being wedged between them, and many are drifting towards Beijing. Either because they are trying to hedge their bets just on sheer scale and numbers or because the United States is starting to turn inward again in another anti-global nationalistic phase akin to the era just prior to WWII. That shouldn't surprise anyone, though, seeing as the ruling class in countries like Canada have been compromised by Chinese influence for years. Justin Trudeau even once said that the success of the world is inexorably linked to the success of China. His successor hasn't pulled back either.

America and Americans on the other hand could care less about China. We only care that our costs remain low and our sovereignty remain intact. Globalism be damned. From the late 1940s to 1991, opposition to the Soviet Union held the West together. When that enemy collapsed, nothing replaced it. Western leaders believed bringing China into the global system would make China more like us, but instead the world became more like them. Part of America did too. The Marxist Progressives, the academics and the sycophant media that supports them. The rest of American patriots and the blue collars have given a stern middle finger to China and the rest of the world. We believe we don’t need them and we don’t care about them.

Outside America and sometimes in the coastal liberal cities within the masses have lost touch with God, morals and human value. They have become markedly socialistic in on so doing have become dehumanized like China. Without a shared ideal, Western leaders let their nations weaken so long as profits rose and international governing bodies gained power. They drilled holes in the national hull while planning their exit onto the dock of global governance, like a sailor stepping off a sinking ship without looking back. That's why so many leaders lately are failing upwards. It is also why they're starting to panic now. Some are being voted out because of the destruction they’ve wrought on their own nations. Others like Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom are resigning before the rabble and riotous crowd lynch him. The illegals they’ve allowed into their nation have virtually destroyed it.

Now we see as America, the largest player pulls away, the institutions built on Western cooperation begin to collapse. As the warning goes, you can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. So, welcome to the consequences. Americans cannot continue to support a self-destructive immorality that continues to dictate its demented and depraved philosophies on domestic and foreign policy. It is immorality is destroying families, illegal immigration with no intent to assimilate to American culture is destroying communities and crippling debt is destroying American’s futures.

We need to remove ourselves from the Deep State Marxist cabal intent on destroying America from within. They're even using out own tax money to do it. World War III is being fought on our borders, in our colleges and schools and in our wallets. The foreign invaders, our own education system and the international banks are succeeding where every American enemy has failed on a battlefield for the last 250 years. It's time to unplug from the very institutions that mean our demise. We're not being defeated in a traditional ground war, we're in essence dying a slow death by a trillion papercuts that are self-inflicted.

The Brute Force of Impossibly Large Numbers

To further elaborate on a previous post about time, I now reach into not chronological numbers but rather the brute force of math and mathematical equations and formula. I do so by looking at society and probability. Some call the chances of something luck or fortune but to a believing Christian there is no such thing as luck. There is no chance. In a universe created and sustained by an omnipotent and omniscient God, there are no accidents no chance and no stray moments or molecules. There are only providence and sovereignty. There are plans and control.

Every decade, the institutions that shape Western life such as media, universities, nonprofits, government, and the arts, all grow more certain that atheism or secular humanism are the only serious worldview. In every decade, the culture grows colder and less beautiful because of the absence of God in not only society but also individual people’s lives. The soulless architecture like the Obama Library, the hollow entertainment riddled with LGBTQ+ propaganda, the art and movies with rife feminism that no one cares about, are all products of a civilization that stops leaving room for wonder. That stopped accepting the possibility of the supernatural or metaphysical. The society that has shunned God. In so doing they've shunned beauty and true meaning.

You hear it in how our godless intellectuals speak about us. Humans are not miracles wrestling with forces larger than ourselves. We are referred to as byproducts, chemical accidents, the end result of purposeless cause and effect and the output of reactions no one chose and nothing oversaw. If you look deep enough though and follow the materialist's or empiricist's own science, and you arrive at something unmistakably and clearly miraculous. Not only a mathematical miracle or astronomical improbability but a legitimate honest-to-goodness supernatural miracle.

For life to be possible at all, a series of cosmic constants, such as gravity, had to fall within impossibly narrow margins. Shift any of them even slightly, and there is no universe, no stars, and no humanity. Beyond those constants lies the precision of the universe's own starting conditions. Oxford physicist Roger Penrose calculated the odds of that precision. One in ten to the power of ten to the 123^rd or 10^{10 to the} 123 power. You can't comprehend that number, and neither can I. It cannot be written down. It’s too impossibly large. As Penrose noted, there are fewer particles in the universe than there are zeros in that figure. The number is larger than the thing it describes. Instead of conceding that God or an omnipotent designer is the cause, the atheist/materialists' answer is luck or chance. But when the odds run past anything reality can count, we got lucky stops being scientific argument or even a compelling explanation. It is an intellectually lazy excuse and escape hatch from needing to reason through your argument.

A limitless mind contemplating the impossible number, is dramatized perfectly in Watchmen. Dr. Manhattan sees every particle and moves matter at will. Yet, seeing only the material makes him cold callous and soulless. Human life starts to look meaningless to him. What breaks through the detachment is sheer enormity of the numbers…the math itself. 

Specifically, the improbability of beauty from chaos. That's what these astronomical odds look like to mere humans...uniformity, symmetry and beauty. It’s like weaving oxygen into gold. We all believe that we long to witness such a miraculous event, and yet we often neglect to realize that in the offspring of human coupling we produce a unique individual every single time. No two are the same. Every person different. Evey soul different. Billions upon billions and every single one of them improbable.

Trillions upon trillions of cells compete to create life generation upon generation. And out of that unfathomable contradiction or impossibility and against unfathomable odds, it's a human infant that emerges every single time. In a nearly perfect form, from a supposed singular point or moment of chaos eons ago in the Creation. Just luck, no plan, no design. Any rational mind sees that this is clearly nonsense.

It is in the human newborn that the most powerful materialist mind ever known is undone not by sentiment, but by the sheer scale and brute force of immense numbers. A civilization comes to resemble what it believes about itself. If the West wants its vitality back, its institutions can no longer be guided by cold nihilistic belief systems that degrade the miracle of life. We shouldn't be surprised that as a society fails to value life as it does today, it also begins to wither and die itself.

Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

Romans 1:19-23 For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

One Is The Loneliest Number

Genesis 2:18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.

The loneliness epidemic and our societal slide into godless totalitarianism are deeply, inseparably and spiritually linked. The numbers tell the story. Marriage rates have collapsed 65% since 1970 after the immorality of the sexual revolution. Every Western nation is below replacement birth rates and some are approaching demographic extinction. Meanwhile Muslim birthrates are on the rise along with the propogation of their murderous religion. 

Men's close friendships have declined by half since 1990. I can attest to this myself. I have only two or three close friends. The rest are merely passing acquaintances. Global social isolation jumped 13.4% from 2009 to 2024. Much of it occuring during 2020 and after. About 58% of Americans feel no one truly knows them. Every structural trend of modern life is breaking us apart and leaving us alone. The primary culprits being the smartphone and one's political ideology. This has become especially true for white males who, by-and-large have been excluded from many things socially via the Progressive Left's push for inclusion, tolerance and diversity. If the Progressives and Marxist media push for inclusion, tolerance and diversity you can be assured they do not mean white males. They are to be excluded. Alienation and ostracizing of the largest contingent of the labor force is now effectivly socially cut off from most other social groups. Sometimes even in Christian churches and Jewish synagogues. Christian brotherhood be damned.

Social philosopher Hannah Arendt spent her life studying how totalitarian movements rise to power. She discovered that the mass man isn't defined by brutality and testosterone, but by isolation and lack of normal social relationships...specially loneliness. Totalitarian states don't just create lonely people, they harvest them. The masses who join these movements grew out of societies where people had already lost their connections to family, community, and class. Once those bonds dissolve, the isolated individual becomes raw material for a cold inhuman movement to shape. This is also why it is critical for the Marxist philosophy to eliminate God and even the idea of God. If God truly exists, then man is never truly alone. Destroy belief, destroy communal interaction. First with other men, then with a man’s God.

This is why religion and religious belief has to be mocked and erased by a Marxist regimes as is being done in America today. There is no other valid explanation for what is happening in America and the Western world at-large right now.

Philosophy makes a crucial distinction between isolation and loneliness. Isolation means losing your ability to act or interact politically or as a group. It is the amputation of the ability to have influence in the world around you. But loneliness goes deeper. It means losing trust in yourself, losing confidence in your own thoughts and judgment. You are literally amputated from portions of yourself through doubt and fear. Personal emotional dislocation. Isolation is about what you can do in the world, while loneliness is about who you are in the world. The Bible is clear, we are communal people and if our choice of communality is removed another form of it will be forced on us in the form of an overbearing draconian government. That is because communal behavior is, at its root, a spiritual action.

It is also why the atheistic believer strives so hard to make man believe that humans are alone in the universe and there is no God. It creates a sense of helplessness that a lonely person is trapped in a vast meaningless whirling void of pointlessness. This inevitably leads many lonely or lost people to embrace nihilism and accept that there is no point or meaning to existence. A person that embraces this mindset realizes that if all is pointless then what is the point of existing at all. Many nihilistic and godless belief systems usually end in suicides.

While many factors may contribute to suicide, more than a century of research has demonstrated significant links between a lack of social connection and death by suicide. This research suggests that social connection may protect against suicide as a cause of death, especially for men. One study found that among men, deaths due to suicide are associated with loneliness and more strongly with indicators of objective isolation such as living alone. In this study of over 500,000 middle-aged adults, the probability of dying by suicide more than doubled among men who lived alone.

Conversely, isolation is helpful for some. I tend to isolate frequently. It strengthens me because I re-establish my connection with God. The truth is simple though; I am never alone. My isolation is usually purposeful so that I have the silence and the presence of mind to engage my God as the 'still small' and fleeting voice on the wind. It is the scenario in the Old Testament from 1 Kings 19:11-12, where the prophet Elijah seeks God in a cave on Mount Horeb. 

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper.

God reveals Himself not in the accompanying roaring wind, shattering earthquake, or consuming fire, but in the ensuing silence. If we look at Elijah himself, he too was isolated often but he was also God's greatest Old Testament prophet. He is the benchmark for all other prophets including John the Baptist. Who, above all is the one (βοῶντος/bonntos or one crying, which is a masculine singular verb) or lone voice crying out in the wilderness heralding Jesus' arrival.

The men of God often isolate but they are never lonely. For Christ, “the wilderness” or “desolate place” often became his momentarily sacred space. He regularly escaped the noise and frenzy of society to be alone with his Father, where he could give him his full attention. We see many Bible passages telling us the Jesus often isolated to be with the father not to be lonely. Matthew 14:13, 14:23; Mark 1:35; Luke 4:42, 5:16  are just a few. Jesus modeled a healthy example of isolation with God, not lonliness. Note the difference. Even in the Godhead there are three or a Trinity. Even God is not alone.

An isolated person can still think clearly, make decisions, and judge right from wrong as Jesus did. But a lonely person loses that. They become completely disconnected. They lose context and disassociate. In losing context they begin to feel they lose importance in the world. They no longer know their place in society or in the world. They feel they become worthless not only to others but also to themselves. In a way they kind of do lose the importance they were created for if they are separated from the God. A God that wishes to have a relationship with them. It is God that gives us our value. Remove God and only men are left to impress. Lonely people become victims to the next great idea or system that they believe will give them value. Those people or systems usually end up being corrupt and evil. God made us communal. We will automatically seek that out or go crazy trying.

Unfortunately, loneliness has become the everyday experience of modern masses. Into that emptiness steps totalitarian Marxist thinking, offering simple, rigid logic as a replacement for actual human connection. The ideology promises certainty when nothing else feels certain. It gives the purposeless man a purpose. Even if that purpose is lawless, murderous or violent. It is similar to the plight of the inner-city youth begin recruited into criminal drug trafficking of urban areas. Carl Jung warned that when individuals feel insignificant and invisible, they become desperate to merge into something larger than themselves.

This psychological erosion, the sense that you're nobody special, just another face in the crowd living at some address like millions of other people, creates the perfect conditions for mass movements to take hold. Mass brainwashing. A million isolated individuals don't add up to strength. They become weakness at scale. A financial and emotional liability. The dictator's advantage over free society isn't better organization. It's that he absorbs the individual completely, taking not just their vote, but their moral compass, their capacity for independent thought, and their ability to trust their own judgment. Effectively stealing their identity completely. The more disconnected individuals become from each other, the more powerful the state grows to fill that void.

Look around you. This philosophy is being enacted at an industrial scale with no signs of slowing. Belief in God prevents this morose faceless inhumanity. In the absence of God, we lose our own identities. Within him whom we were created in the image of, we find not only relationship but also our meaning for existence. This will never be found in a human government or leader.