The Law of Attraction - Pros and Cons

[Darrin_Donnelly]

Did getting killed become part of God’s plan for a better you? I think not, the same goes with the many tragedies faced throuout the world.

I understand what you’re saying here, but to discuss it further, could you clarify the perspective you’re coming from? Do YOU think it is part of God’s plan or are you saying you believe in a hands-off approach from God? That is, a belief in “Deism” - that God created the the universe, but does not intervene in it?

 

[CHRISTINE77]

In some ways Jesus even believed in the law of attraction. Ask and you shall receive, knock and the door shall be opened.

Also if you want to attract evil things, go ahead and call on Satan.

If you want protection and peace, pray to God.

However, I must say that sometimes the positive thinking thing falls flat. If you start being too cocky and think you can have the power to attract everything you crave into your life, that’s usually when things start to f**k up for you.

Just my observation.

 

[prodigalson12]

In some ways Jesus even believed in the law of attraction. Ask and you shall receive, knock and the door shall be opened.

Also if you want to attract evil things, go ahead and call on Satan.

If you want protection and peace, pray to God.

However, I must say that sometimes the positive thinking thing falls flat. If you start being too cocky and think you can have the power to attract everything you crave into your life, that’s usually when things start to f**k up for you.

Just my observation.

They used that tidbit of information, turned it into a 1/2 truth with Jesus’s quote. He is referencing asking of the Father, and like children, we often ask for the wrong thing, so he will not give to us things he know we should not have, the LOA does away with that, by making you think you actually control the universe with your mind and are being totally self sufficient, the concept with the LOA, it’s not about asking, it’s about demanding, the two are far different.

 

[prodigalson12]

I understand what you’re saying here, but to discuss it further, could you clarify the perspective you’re coming from? Do YOU think it is part of God’s plan or are you saying you believe in a hands-off approach from God? That is, a belief in “Deism” - that God created the the universe, but does not intervene in it?

He intervenes more then you think, he’s aware of even the most minute detail of everything in the cosmos, of course he is taking an active part.

 

[Steven_John]

In some ways Jesus even believed in the law of attraction. Ask and you shall receive, knock and the door shall be opened.

Amen his teaching is much based on the result of ones faith

Also if you want to attract evil things, go ahead and call on Satan.

Yes if you are not asking the Father then you are not following the way of Yeshua (pbwh). But some would argue there are other ways of prayer to me Yeshua (pbwh) is the teacher.

If you want protection and peace, pray to God.

Amen Amen Amen Yeshua (pbwh) teaches pray to Our Father.

However, I must say that sometimes the positive thinking thing falls flat. If you start being too cocky and think you can have the power to attract everything you crave into your life,

Yes often we choose religion given by men above the teaching of Yeshua (pbwh) and our prayers appear un answered.

I know of people who pray to dead people that were seen to be filled with My Fathers love. What then, when the prayer request is answered assert the person is a saint. When the prayer appears un answered they say it is G-ds will.

Men go to enormous length to make complex understandings exulting them selves or community.

Clearly Yeshua (pbwh) saw something in little children, call in them to him and suggesting we should be more like them to enter.

Enjoyed your post B blessed and B guided

 

[Dentyk03sumA]

The law of attraction is great, I love Rhonda… She is a great author…

 

[Darrin_Donnelly]

I actually just blogged the following food for thought:

Here’s a quick question for the “Law of Attraction” gurus. (And please understand that I’m not “calling out” any of these folks in a way that is meant to be demeaning or judgmental, I think they have truly helped a lot of people take more responsibility for their lives and become happier individuals – even if I may personally disagree with some of the methods they are using. I’m genuinely curious as to how they would try to answer this question.)

The question:
If the Law of Attraction is real and we shape the physical universe with our thoughts and feelings, do you believe that the world was actually flat at one point? After all, for centuries upon centuries, the vast majority of people BELIEVED with all their might that the world truly was flat. Did their thoughts make it so? Did their thoughts attract a flat world that was later re-shaped to be round as scientists eventually discovered (thought) it to be?

Obviously, the world was never flat and this points out the absurdity of teaching that the Law of Attraction as an actual scientific “law” that shapes physical realities.

Now I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I DO believe in the Law of Attraction in the sense that we attract into our lives what we relentlessly focus our thoughts, actions, and words on.

However, to tell people their thoughts and feelings create ALL their physical realities and that their thinking is the cause of EVERYTHING that happens to them or the world around them, I believe, is delusional.

 

[prodigalson12]

It’s hard to say if the majority of people believed the world was truly flat at any point, there clearly were plenty that knew better if you study ancient civilizations. The reality behind it, you are deceived into thinking it works because in cases where you are focused, and it comes true, part of it is coincidence, part of it is demonic intervention catering to your desires, this last part is to reinforce your flawed beliefs, also part of it is to get you to play into the devils hand, and when you ask for favors from him, you end up paying it back with interest. If the entire world did think the planet was flat, the forces that be would reach their limits as to what they can manipulate within this universe and fall flat on their faces, not being able to manipulate it as a great deception, at best all they could do is alter the tools we use to measure and test it, causing a false result.

You don’t really attract to you anything on your own, there are things such as not having confidence with a presentation that causes you to fail at it for example, which would be in line with your reasoning, but never are you physically altering reality itself. The same elements are in play, with or without your involvement, the world turns regardless of what you think, you make mistakes and pay for them because it’s the natural order of things.

 

[Darrin_Donnelly]

but never are you physically altering reality itself. The same elements are in play, with or without your involvement, the world turns regardless of what you think, you make mistakes and pay for them because it’s the natural order of things.

I agree with you completely. That’s exactly the point I’m trying to make. When I say I believe in the “Law of Attraction”, I mean it in the sense that focusing your thoughts, actions, and words on achieveing a particular goal and never giving up will ultimately “attract” that goal into your life. Long before this was called the “Law of Attraction,” I think it was simply known as positive thinking and perserverance.

To be clear, I DON’T believe in the Law of Attraction the way it’s being taught, as in your mind sending out energy that manipulates physical reality, etc. I also don’t believe that WE are more powerful than (or just as powerful as) God, which is what a lot of the LOA gurus also seem to teach. Quite the contrary, I believe we have to let go and trust God (not our subconscious or “the universe” or the “life force” or whatever else you want to call it) to know what is best for us.

I just want to make sure I’m not being misunderstood here.