I don’t know if you’re like me, but I’m really tired of all the conflict that is taking place in the world, especially in religions. Everyone seems to be claiming to be some kind of expert. Yet, if you look very carefully at what they say, there are gaping holes in how they think.

I’m no expert either. But, I do know one thing. There is Only One Expert—the True God. The God Who IS Truth. Everyone else may have an opinion (including me), but no one knows “the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” To think that would be idolatry, setting up a mere human being as God.

Some of our human opinions are in agreement. Some of our human opinions are in conflict. But, they are all just opinions. The Complete Truth belongs to God alone. When we fight over opinions, it is usually just a form of arrogance, a lethal lack of humility, where human beings try to pass off their opinions as fact, coercing, cajoling and controlling others to buy into their beliefs. In essence, they’ve turned their opinions into gods.

This is cultism. And it doesn’t make a difference who you are, whether you are a religious leader, a government official, a parent, teacher, a child or Bin Laden— when you try to pass your opinion

off as the Absolute Truth, that is idolatry. And the Bible will tell you that once an idol is created, it is doomed to tumble, and oftentimes, crushes us. We become crushed by our own arrogance. That’s how our economy tumbles. That’s how all hell breaks out in our homeland.

If we truly—truly—believed that God is The Only Truth, then, we wouldn’t allow our different opinions to become wars. We would seek to abandon the “false gods” of our opinions, and seek Truth, The Only God.

I think it’s time we had some religious commonsense. It’s time we had complete and intelligent and truly open discussions about difficult subjects like abortion or gay marriages, not propaganda from either liberals or conservatives. It’s time we stopped turning our scriptures into “gods”, and worshipping them or our interpretations of them, and hurting others with our beliefs.

The real sign of true spiritual-knowledge is health, peace, prosperity and happiness. That doesn't come from an opinion. It comes from God.