- However quite obviously in religion the idea feels different. - One might say the very idea is irrational because it does not make sense treasuring having assumptions about what you don't know. And quite correctly perhaps one might say too that if you do know, - you need not call it faith.
- A baby, - normally, - knows nothing. When it is born, - that is. - The speed in which learning seems to prove itself, - perhaps both in humans and in animals, - may seem funny, - much quicker than what may reasonably be expected, - but this is not of the issue here. - But as for the baby, - the newborn one, - right after its appearance it begins to accumulate what seems to be knowledge relating to its surroundings. - He (or she) learns slowly, - though as I said perhaps much quicker than what might have been natural according to materialistic assumptions or ideas, - and in order to function, - qualifies itself.
- This process of course goes on much further through a more advanced age. - When will one attain “faith”?
- Some might believe in God or something else simply because they have been told what they have been told since the youngest age. Could this be called faith?
Most obviously, - it is truly easy to find practical idiots who would seem to have faith if you are observing it on the shallowest plain. - Should those be called men and women of faith. I would say quite unequivocally they would better not. Though materialistic intellectuals would gladly think otherwise. Despising faith that is. - Faith is not at first about having this or that opinion. - Faith is a quality of the heart. – Fundamentally. I would say. - You might say otherwise too, - but it wouldn't lead us to meaningful understanding, here at least. - Why do we speak of faith? We don't speak of it equally relating to other issues. - Is there a “God”? Is there a Heaven? Does our mind really originate merely in random occurrences of physical matter? - If there is a “God” - what is it?
When Jesus speaks of the “Father in Heaven” - he is clearly relating to what may be known elsewhere (mainly in Eastern paths perhaps) as the original reality or the original mind. - But is it the same when we are hearing of “God” or “the Lord” earlier in the Jewish Bible? I don't know. – You thought you were going to find answers in these words. Perhaps you will.
But as for faith, - and back to the baby, - there is the learning. Thinking, - human thinking at least, - may be divided into three parts, - I would say. – There is the intellectual thinking, relating to the head I guess, which is the most shallow layer. - Next there is a second phase I don't think there is a word for in English, - (in Hebrew there is) related to the heart. And next there is wisdom, - having in a way at least to do with the body. - Intellectuality is like a pencil's drawing. It has no depth. - Wisdom, - I would say, - is about having a picture of reality. - Not just concluding A is true because of B and so on. - And faith, - how does it appear? It would be about an inner ability undefined (at first at least) through which a cleaner heart might gradually (at first) grasp the nature of things.
Had the materialistic ideas held by many these days been true there would be no room for these things to be spoken of.
But quite obviously, - one cannot convince all intellectual materialists of the truth related to here through the mere means they cherish. - Otherwise the world would be so much different. - I haven't explained so much. It is not easy. - But at a certain point one can say positively as a matter of fact that a certain ability of thinking is acquired. This is when one acquires true faith. True faith is not yet perfect faith. But it is no emotional thing.
In making progress through life, - in learning, - since the moment we are born, - we might also learn how to learn. - It is necessary - it seems - that this improves too.
Intellectuals are blocked somewhere relating to this. As Jesus said - he who has shall be given, - these guys are depriving themselves of progress since they have their views which will lead them all the wrong ways in relation to this. - But generally things change, - for them too, - when one matures. - Not all people are of the same starting point. Need this be said? - Again, - here - intellectuals will measure thing altogether wrongly. - But anyway a very shallow or dry-minded person initially without any inner substance or significance will at first advance very slowly. Through incarnations we can get better each time. - How does one come to faith? - It is not through the study of mathematics. (Though in ancient Greek such a path existed too) It is not through mere conclusion making based on what most assume they know today. - It is through some sort of a finer thing. An ability you might say is more refined. - And as for communicating it, - it much depends on where is this other one you want to speak to. - The closer this one is the better are the chances of the communication. You might check Mark 12:28-34 but it is not necessarily exactly fit for my discussion here. - Not knowing what wisdom is, - one will never have a sufficient understanding or view of what faith is. One can not be truly wise and have zero faith. The two come closer as they advance. - You can not expect to figure out what all this is about using merely intellectual thinking. You need to let go and look at your picture of the world. And this article here is not a magical one. It is not supposed to necessarily make a notable difference after one reads it. It's obvious. - One the intention is that it would make its contribution. - Even if an incomplete one. - So far.
Plus there are those who have got the perfect thing, - as they say, - ineffable achievement beyond any doubt, - but as for this you better get the message directly from such one, though quite clearly you will not understand it, nor will I.
Until the day comes, that is.
October 20, 2024.
I all the time schedule posts now.
I all the time schedule posts now.
