How long will you people keep walking on two sides of the fence? If G‑d is G‑d, follow Him. And if the Baal is G‑d, follow him! (Elijah in Kings I 18:21)
This is shocking. How could Elijah even suggest to the people such an option, that people should abandon the true G‑d altogether and worship exclusively the false god?
Isn’t it better they should have even some truth in their lives, even if the rest is a lie?
But no. It may be a worse sin to commit entirely to a false god, but there is far more hope for such a person than for one who tries to walk on both sides of the fence.
Someone walking both sides of the fence shows that he’s not interested in the truth. If truth doesn’t matter, what will it help to show him truth?
Not so someone who is committed entirely to what he believes to be true. Once shown his error, he might now turn his life around and be yet more committed to the one true G‑d.
It would seem that “for Real” points to actuality and away from conceptualization. I say this because the whole human race, with some exceptions, is identifying with the images their brains construct as the totality of the images of the senses and translate them into language, words which they unconsciously accept as what actually “is”. For many it is difficult to understand this concept, because to them there is no difference between the word “house” and an actual house.
There was and still is a lot of pressure to accept “feelings” as we unconsciously apply them to ourselves, words such as “feelings”, “love”, “need”, “want”, etc. In ancient times there was a desire to please God in the form of idols, and trust in religious leaders etc. In our time those “idols” have turned into the language of “happiness” and “misery”. Of course God wants to teach us to leave these imaginations behind and just trust in what we can’t sense without having a connection to what is actual.