We want change. The greatest change would be in the transformation of who we are as individual souls. Some say progress requires pain. This is definitely true though internally.
Sometimes we think that if society would change, then our lives would be better. Nothing easy to do is worth doing. Maybe we should stop trying to make our lives easier.
Life is complex. The devil is in the details. A simple solution will not solve our underlying problems. It is not something anyone outside ourselves can do.
We are currently very divided over important issues. We often get angry, when discussing them, because we cannot imagine someone having opposite ideas than we do. The real problems though lie below the surface.
While we debate how we want our ideas achieved, no one is challenging what we all agree upon. It is in changing these assumptions about life that we will make changes that truly last. We often think ideas are what drives history, but the changes happening are bigger than any one country or region.
The biggest drivers of history are natural forces like weather, geography, and technology that we have little control over. We make plans for the future, but God determines the direction of our timelines. While we debate the paradoxes of the Bible, we are making our futures worse for everyone.
We are making a hell on earth and the only thing that will save us at that point will be Christ. We will still feel the pain, but we will escape the fire, but just barely. Sartre says hell is other people and people really are creating hell.
Our best understanding of hell makes it sound like a prison, from an earth transformed by radical climate change. Some experience hell on earth, through various tragedies and traumas, often caused by military service. I experience a degree of trauma daily due to symptoms caused by Schizophrenia. Fear can often be worse than pain, in many aspects.
So to change ourselves is to change our future. We need to let go of the things we cannot change and change what is under our control. The things under our control are usually decisions we can make, in our own direct or personal relationships.
In making decisions, we often rely on reasoned arguments and use scientific ideas to achieve our ambitions. This is why it is hard to have faith for us today. We don’t want any mystery or uncertainty in life.
We do not trust anyone, so we all surveil each other continually. Our entire legal system is based on no one ever making an judgement call. We are so technologically advanced and wealthy, but have no spiritual purpose.
None of this can be done on a large scale and it cannot be coerced in any way. We need to make the choice to limit our dependence, not only on computers, but on reason itself. Logic will always be a rival of faith, because they both seek to answer the same questions.
Some of these uses are chosen out of ignorance over what science or religion is actually designed to answer. There will always be interest in reasoning out faith, because Christians want to appear intelligent. There will always be interest in using science to explain faith, because we all need God in our lives.
Science has taken so much of life that people now use it as a go to method of deciding what is true or right. God was made optional in the 19th century. Today, many Christians would be perfectly happy with a situation, where our nation was predominantly oblivious to any degree of faith or even pagan, as long as they had the exclusive respect of the general population.
One of the ways in which science makes living our faith more difficult is how fast time goes by now. Another is that science keeps changing fast. And science, even at a basic level, is very complex. The biggest problem is few people can both understand the ideas of science and then be able to communicate them to the average person, while still being technically accurate.
Many of the ways people now use science is very much how most people throughout history would describe magic. This magic naturally takes the place of God in our lives, because we depend on it more than on our Creator. Our society is very visual and concrete, so we have trouble accepting things we cannot see or measure directly.
When a society becomes hostile to education as ours has, then the entire society becomes paranoid, because all sources of information are equally plausible. When we are never sure what actually happened, it is almost impossible for there to be any concrete reality beyond our closest relationships.
When someone controls all you see and hear, you end up believing anything they want you to, or you believe in nothing. This desire to control life through science has actually broken down the concept of objective reality. The advancement of technology has made facts obsolete.
The idea that what we think is based on objective truth is just an idea that existed in a very narrow time, place, and technology. Not having any source of truth we can rely on actually is leading people back to Christ.
Believing in the God of the Bible is inherently a very positive approach to determining truth because of Who God is and how He never changes. God gives us hope because He is both good and in control. When we feel like we have little control in life, we are more likely to listen to Him.
-- December 2025