What is the difference between living in seeming reality and the reality of the Spirit of God?
One difference is that whereas without faith I would think of myself and what I accomplish in a very divisive way. What I am doing at work is not good enough, I am not measuring up. What I am doing is more than what others would do, I am better than them, but I'm trying too hard, what I do isn't important and not recognized.
Without being dedicated to the Lord I feel no obligation to reach beyond the place where I currently am, I don't feel there is something more that I'm not reaching for. Doing for others without regard for our own personal interest.
Whatever I have to accomplish it is up to me, I cannot say "It will happen because the Lord is with me, he is blessing me." The feeling that I cannot fail is not there, there is so much doubt. Doubt in my abilities... yet sometimes there is doubt when I am relying upon the Lord, what if what I want to accomplish is not what the Lord wants for me? That means that my efforts will come to not if it is the Lords will. In some ways it is giving up my will, it's sometimes harder to decide what I want to try to do.
Commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the commitments and the crises of our lives.
I've felt that I am not good enough, subordinate skills, jealousy of what other people have been able to do.
How is believing in God different in believing in Santa Clause? Perhaps we try an experiment to see if people when given an artificial "god" would record the same benefits as from believing in God. Perhaps we set up a belief by telling them that they can receive anything that they ask for, and then show them instances where others have asked and received. Where they have to be "good" or they will not get what they wan and then delve into what being good entails. Will it work? Is a belief in a power beyond what we normally experience enough to make the following of proscribed dogmas efficacious? Or does there have to be something more, reality. What is reality? To me it is an act or wisdom that when followed will cause a consistent and universal result. For me there is absolutely a reality of intuitive back to basics eating. Our bodies simply do better when we understand and feed them what they need. Within that realm though there are basic requirements and then there are specialized requirements for what is best for me to eat. However there is no room for eating things that were not meant (or ideal) for human consumption. Perhaps we cannot see the result of eating improperly right away, but gradually we will see a decline in health and mental ability. Thus too, there are basic requirements that our body needs, enrichment from spiritual truth.
8/20/2018
I no longer feel that I can have faith in a specific god. I do believe in faith, but not particularly in the god that I was raised with. This is information that would hurt some of my family so I've kept it under wraps but I logically cannot continue a belief in the god of my youth.
SG
One difference is that whereas without faith I would think of myself and what I accomplish in a very divisive way. What I am doing at work is not good enough, I am not measuring up. What I am doing is more than what others would do, I am better than them, but I'm trying too hard, what I do isn't important and not recognized.
Without being dedicated to the Lord I feel no obligation to reach beyond the place where I currently am, I don't feel there is something more that I'm not reaching for. Doing for others without regard for our own personal interest.
Whatever I have to accomplish it is up to me, I cannot say "It will happen because the Lord is with me, he is blessing me." The feeling that I cannot fail is not there, there is so much doubt. Doubt in my abilities... yet sometimes there is doubt when I am relying upon the Lord, what if what I want to accomplish is not what the Lord wants for me? That means that my efforts will come to not if it is the Lords will. In some ways it is giving up my will, it's sometimes harder to decide what I want to try to do.
Commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the commitments and the crises of our lives.
I've felt that I am not good enough, subordinate skills, jealousy of what other people have been able to do.
How is believing in God different in believing in Santa Clause? Perhaps we try an experiment to see if people when given an artificial "god" would record the same benefits as from believing in God. Perhaps we set up a belief by telling them that they can receive anything that they ask for, and then show them instances where others have asked and received. Where they have to be "good" or they will not get what they wan and then delve into what being good entails. Will it work? Is a belief in a power beyond what we normally experience enough to make the following of proscribed dogmas efficacious? Or does there have to be something more, reality. What is reality? To me it is an act or wisdom that when followed will cause a consistent and universal result. For me there is absolutely a reality of intuitive back to basics eating. Our bodies simply do better when we understand and feed them what they need. Within that realm though there are basic requirements and then there are specialized requirements for what is best for me to eat. However there is no room for eating things that were not meant (or ideal) for human consumption. Perhaps we cannot see the result of eating improperly right away, but gradually we will see a decline in health and mental ability. Thus too, there are basic requirements that our body needs, enrichment from spiritual truth.
8/20/2018
I no longer feel that I can have faith in a specific god. I do believe in faith, but not particularly in the god that I was raised with. This is information that would hurt some of my family so I've kept it under wraps but I logically cannot continue a belief in the god of my youth.
SG
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