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After a few starts and some name changes, I think I finally have a way to do this.

It started with the site name change,
which went from "which god saves us" to "god versus religion".

It really seems appropriate to call it "God versus Religion", because so often I suspect God's not happy with man's religions.  And it's not like that's anything new.  It's been like that, well, for a really long time.

For instance, right after the Israelites were saved in the Exodus, we read this from God speaking to Moses -

^{Ex 34:10} Then the LORD said: “I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the LORD, will do for you. ¹¹ Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. ¹² Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. ¹³ Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles. ¹⁴ Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Just counting the number of times we see orders to cut down Asherah poles - there are more than 20 of them in the NIV Old Testament.
And just in case you forgot, all of this was after the first tablet was broken when Moses found the people celebrating with their golden calf 'god'.

So - no, God wasn't happy with the people back then and what they chose to have as their 'gods'.  In today's terms, we would say it was their version of 'religion' or 'church' or things like that.

And if that wasn't bad enough, people argue over things, split off and form a new 'religion' with a different 'god'.  I put it that way, because they argue, sometimes to the death, over things related to their specific version of who "God" really is.  As if they can make God in their image.  Last time I checked, it was the other way around.

Question

In the face of all this, what are we to do?
How are we to know the "real" God?

I guess the first answer is another question - would God leave us with no clue as to how to know Him?

The answer to that has got to be a resounding "No!"

The answer is in the world around us -