>C_A death
Are we near the closing act?
>That's the only place you'll find God–inside yourself–because if you don't know yourself, you can't know God.
Correct
>You will never find God by looking within yourself
From the Gospel of Matthew, Christ said: “When you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the hypocrites do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. Therefore, do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.”
ANCIENT SYRIAC GOSPEL VERIFIES THE CORRECT TRANSLATION. Christ said,
“THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS INSIDE YOU”
“Christ’s declaration that the Kingdom of God is an interior reality is perfectly appropriate to the addressees of this logion, since the Pharisees are notoriously accused by Christ precisely of giving importance only to exteriority, formal practices and human glory. Christ, instead, emphasizes that God’s Kingdom is interior, invisible, and impossible to locate in one place or another, in that it is of a spiritual nature.”
http://web.archive.org/web/20160203143739/http:/syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/Vol12No2/HV12N2Ramelli.pdf
Thus, “we can not rely on the external “authorities” to save us. Only a direct personal relationship with God can we find truth and salvation.”