2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
A crisis of faith in a person sets in when the expectations that he placed on God are not justified. Everyone has their own expectations. Have you ever wondered why you believe or don't believe in God?
Someone does not even think about it, they believe by inertia, because relatives believe, because in childhood, my grandmother read the Bible at night and taught to pray, because she was baptized.
Most people believe in divine omnipotence, in the idea of divine justice, that God will heal diseases or punish offenders, that faith guarantees a happy earthly life or heavenly booths.
Faith based on such expectations is strong until the first serious disappointment, grief.
Recently I watched the film "The Unforgiven". In the afterword to the film, when fragments of an interview with the real Vitaly Kaloev are shown, it is clear that he survived a crisis of faith.
Vitaly's wife and children died in a plane crash due to an error of the dispatcher, who incorrectly transmitted data to the pilots of two planes and they collided in the air over Lake Constance. Most of the passengers were children.
The picture takes the viewer to the place of that terrible tragedy, where a grief-stricken father, like a hunted animal, wanders in agony in search of the bodies of his family. He finds the body of his little daughter, squeezes in his arms, and the viewer conveys the feeling of hopelessness, grief and inner emptiness of the hero. With the death of children, the meaning of life also perishes, the world fades and a person walks on the earth like a living corpse - while he is still breathing, but his soul is already dead.
Later, Vitaly Kaloev learns that the dispatcher has evaded responsibility. From that moment on, he says that he quarreled with God, because justice did not happen. Then the man himself decides to administer justice.
When asked if the murder of dispatcher Nielsen was his revenge, he replied: "Revenge is something petty. It was not revenge, but punishment."
When asked if he felt sorry for Nielsen's children who were left without a father, Vitaly replied that Nielsen's children were alive, and he was in a coffin.
Trusting in the Lord, the believer believes that God will punish the guilty and justice will be done. However, the boomerang law is nothing more than the self-consolation of a person who expects someone from above to avenge his suffering. Such a person himself feels anger at the offender and thirsts for revenge, but shifts the responsibility to God, so that God boomerang down on him his righteous anger.
Yes, the boomerang law works when a person who has committed meanness experiences a strong sense of guilt, with which he unconsciously punishes himself. God has nothing to do with it. God is not an arbiter, protector, or judge.
When does a person come to God? When he wants to be heard and accepted, when everyone else has turned away. God is the image of a loving, accepting father, not a punishing sword in the hands of one who hopes for just retribution.
Each person has their own truth. Vitaly Kaloev has done his justice.
A lot of injustice happens to us in life.
The tragedy in the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping and entertainment center in Kemerovo is still alive in my memory. Because of negligence, many people died then, and someone's children also died.
Isolation of disabled people from a full life in society, because someone's mom or dad believes that their child should not study with a disabled child in the same class. Teachers who constantly give two marks to an unloved student, not suspecting that they are giving them to their professional aptitude.
Parents who do not want to be responsible for their children.
All of these cases are unfair.
Pride and irresponsibility are two human qualities of our time that lead to tragedies on a social scale.
Each person should think about the consequences of their actions. True, more often understanding comes when the trouble has already occurred.
Dear readers, thank you for your attention to my articles! Live consciously
Author: Burkova Elena Viktorovna
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