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“Set Free? Set free from what? What does it mean, ‘addicted to me’?”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"19-2-735x413\"<\/a>Are you in too deep… overwhelmed… like you’re drowning? Are you often feeling discouraged… defined by failure… experiencing depression? Ever wonder, \u201cIs this all there is?” Is happy even possible? Have you been wounded by betrayal… mired in guilt and shame… imprisoned by rejection and fear? <\/span><\/span><\/span>Are you preoccupied with resentment? <\/span><\/span><\/span>Are you broken, feeling you’re beyond repair? Do you want to be restored into wholeness… to live freely to more fully experience love, contentment, and joy?<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

by Steven Gledhill<\/span> <\/strong><\/em>for FREEdom from MEdom Project<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is an ocean. Its currents are pulling you under. Sharks are everywhere, circling, seeking to devour you. Now, God has sent you a boat so you can live your life without fear of drowning or being consumed by its predators. From a yearning heart of compassion, Jesus is here extending his hand. Please, take this lifeline of compassion into the very best of your new life experience.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the following is an in-depth introduction on the fallen human condition and what God decided to do about it. And since we have to start somewhere, why not from the beginning… Where and when did it all begin, this thing we call life?<\/p>\n

Why God? Why Not God?<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”<\/em> —A.W. Tozer<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, something had to always exist. Was the universe always<\/em> out there? Was there something smaller than a speck of dust that always existed, that somehow randomly<\/em> mutated into every intricacy that is within and throughout life\u2026 that somehow contained within it all of the matter, DNA, and intelligence of everything that ever was, is, and ever will be? Whatever it was, was it alive? Wouldn\u2019t it have to be to beget life? Is it possible that one random incarnation after another somehow, in some way, just happened to fashion together all of the aimlessly roaming parts in some infinitely vast space that through some arbitrary fluke sparked into existence the “miracle” of life?<\/p>\n

Or, did something come from… nothing? Hmm. If so, then ‘nothing’ is<\/em> ‘something’, and ‘nothing’ had to come from ‘something’ with the capacity to become something more… to eventually through random coincidences calculate the full measure of its evolutionary course. ‘Nothing’ would have to originate and organize from within itself the core ingredients and constitution for ‘something’ to live. Now, that would be something.<\/p>\n

Huh?<\/p>\n