The difference between the Physical and the Divine...
People are trapped in the Physical and that is why the Divine is strange to them...
Well, certainly to MOST people!
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
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12 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.