Dear God,

I am am undergraduate with a major in physics, and I had thought that my childhood Christian beliefs were inconsistent with science, but then I found the following pasage in the Book of James: “Come near to God and he will come near to you.”

Doesn’t that imply exactly the kind of relativism of location in the Universe discussed by Albert Einstein? I mean, who’s really doing the moving when I get closer to God - me or God - and how can I tell the difference?

Also, if God is all present in some sense, and yet can come closer to a person in a particular time and place, doesn’t that suggest that there must be a dimension of space, unseen by human eyes, in which God is not universally present, and can actually become in motion, and not the unmoving mover?

If that’s true, where are you, so that I can get closer to you, and you can get closer to me?

- Rick

Rick,

No, Albert Einstein was completely wrong. Bonkers. I play with dice all the time. I particularly enjoy a good game of Yahtzee.

I am currently touring South Carolina, doing some political consulting. I’ll be in Montana next week, however, playing in the lounge at the Sheraton in Billings.

- God

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