not reading this, but your name is "freeborn" I thought
I mean no malice when I say this: more and more, it seems to me that part of the draw of the 'spiritual, not religious' _religion_ is that one can believe whatever one wants, from day to day, without being held accountable to _any_ higher authority whatsoever. "We _cannot_ know the truth" is held with as much certainty as "but we know it's _not Christianity_!" Railing against 'absolute, exclusive truth claims,' and yet operating on one just the same.
I cannot think of any more eternally dangerous advice than "look within." A ship tossed in a stormy sea needs an _anchor_ that is well-weighted, _outside_ of itself, and on solid ground. We have an anchor for the soul, a _forerunner_, already well-fixed in the presence of God, in Christ Jesus ([Hebrews 2](https://esv.org/Heb+2) ). I _have_ looked within, and it looked strangely similar to Lazarus' tomb before the life-granting call of Christ: dark, diseased, full of death and decay.
Some ideas have _eternal_ consequences. Don't navigate the storm by following a _wandering planet_ but, instead, fix your eye on the unmoving, and immovable, North Star.
TL;DR: Don't "look within," look to [Him](https://esv.org/John+1).
Discussion
Freedom comes from God, not men.
but you're a man criticizing the freedom God gave someone else to make up their own mind every day
I am criticizng the **idea** that we are free to define our own truth, that we can be a God unto ourselves.
But it would be entrapment for any god to speak through you while making others unable to hear. So you can't be speaking for any true god
"Faith comes _through hearing_, and hearing through the word af God. How can they believe unless they hear? How can they hear unless [we speak to them]?" see [Romans 10](https://esv.org/Rom+10)
Read the tail end of [Matt. 11](https://esv.org/Matt+11) and ask: how did Jesus pray? how did he then preach?
Could you be applying a standard of 'good behavior' to God that does not actually come from Him? 🫡
I'm saying if anyone can't hear you then God can't really be speaking through you. He wouldn't make you able to hear and speak his words, and others unable, if he's great enough to be any god, let alone some special "only God"
Well, I hear what you're saying, but the hard truth is that "many are called, but few are chosen," and since I don't know which ones are the latter, I speak indiscriminately to anyone who'll listen--as others did for me. It's 'good news' that others told us, and it shouldn't be kept to ourselves.
Perhaps you meant it when you said there was no malice in the very beginning. That's already hard to make others hear, simply by saying it.