Faith or something of it

[Heyzxk411]

Forgive me, I admit I have a limited intellect. How do you correlate luck with faith? You are always free not to answer, as it's a private matter. I'm just curious
It's a beautiful observation; could you expand on it, please?

-Giammarco

No, you’re chill. I use the word luck, as a light term, I don't believe in superstitions or such but it brings a sort of pease of mind when I do pray and/or a thing to do. I pray for a better outcome than what I may have studied for in a way. Like how some thank an animal or food for the life it had. I think in a way

 

[just me]

Faith is more than a feeling. When we have much faith, it can become like someone shaking an unopened coke bottle. When faith becomes actions or words, behold the change coming.

 

[just me]

In the Bible it has events of his disappoint and rage at times with the Israelites vowing to forsake them. Instead he finds forgiveness, acknowledging in a way the human within us, which leads away from his path.

Please add to this to help with understanding what you are saying.

 

[Heyzxk411]

Please add to this to help with understanding what you are saying.

In the Old Testament, it’s a constant struggle with the Israelites and their commitment to God, due to their idolatry, disobedience, and constant complaining.

After being freed from Egypt, with God's appointed Moses guiding them, they turned to make a golden calf to worship while Moses was with God, receiving the commandments. They also complained that they weren’t satisfied with the food God had provided them in the desert along with other events. As a consequence, they were withheld from the promised land for 40 years allowing the faithless generation to pass before entering Canaan.

In the book of Judges, God is angered and passes a harsher punishment, by allowing the Israelites to be oppressed and ruled by their enemies. In 2 Kings 17:18-20, the Lord "rejected all the descendants of Israel," punishing them and removing them from his sight due to their disobedience.

This was only a temporary punishment rather than full rejection from him, a show of tough love in a way. He intended to bring the Israelites and lead them onto a better path like the shepherd he is.

 

[meowzician]

I do not or cannot view God as other than abstract.

Can you share with me what you mean by abstract?

I remember the Shabbat we had a great discussion about what was God. One of us shared that he thought of God as an energy. Another that they preferred not to define God, since words can never capture the infinite. Me? I said when I hear a bird sing, I think God. when I hear children laughing, I think God. When I hear a beautiful symphony, I think God. When I hear of a fireman rushing into a burning building to save a child, I think God. When I see a mother holding her newborn, I think God.

Even when nothing seems to show you that there is something, deep down there is something inside you, to keep going.

Many times I could have given up because nothing was there but I had this sense that if I am here then that is the place I should be.

Whatever it was that was holding me back is gone now.

Hugs!

 

[Fruiteloop]

Can you share with me what you mean by abstract?

I remember the Shabbat we had a great discussion about what was God. One of us shared that he thought of God as an energy. Another that they preferred not to define God, since words can never capture the infinite. Me? I said when I hear a bird sing, I think God. when I hear children laughing, I think God. When I hear a beautiful symphony, I think God. When I hear of a fireman rushing into a burning building to save a child, I think God. When I see a mother holding her newborn, I think God.



Hugs!

If I were to go with the abstract I can get into much philosophical details about why atoms exist and free will and consciousness.

When I am distracted by life's problems or just in a quiet area in my life I think about God and it seems I get no feelings from him.

It is like you look at the universe and it is empty. Not all the time. I have felt God before but it comes and goes.

As a child I was left alone allot and I pondered about why things existed. (this began around age 7)

It was like in the 1995 movie Pocahontas with the song about painting with all the color of the wind.

In the movie The Prince of Egypt Moses speaks with God but I only think I heard whispers in the past.

God being love is a good expression of how I felt God before but to me it is indirect like this:

It is never a direct face to face or even sensory expression.

No voice but something moving in the background.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PintSizedKid

In Muppet babies you never see nanny's face.

(all this could be Ni related, introverted intuition, something there but cannot see it)

 

[meowzician]

I have felt God before but it comes and goes.

William James (an expert on mystical experiences) says that one of the four elements of such experiences is that they are always transient, meaning temporary. There is nothing we can do to hold onto them. They come and go when they come and go.

As a child I was left alone allot and I pondered about why things existed. (this began around age 7)

I think this is totally our INFJ-ness.

It was like in the 1995 movie Pocahontas with the song about painting with all the color of the wind.

One of my all time favorites. I think of all the Disney Princess songs, this one has the most depth.

In the movie The Prince of Egypt Moses speaks with God but I only think I heard whispers in the past....
It is never a direct face to face or even sensory expression....
No voice but something moving in the background.

1 Kings 19:11-12
11 And He said: "Go out and stand in the mountain before the Lord, behold! The Lord passes, and a great and strong wind splitting mountains and shattering boulders before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake-not in the earthquake was the Lord.
12 After the earthquake fire, not in the fire was the Lord, and after the fire a still small sound.

In Muppet babies you never see nanny's face.

I love your metaphor!