please give your reasoning and your religion/lack thereof
2007-10-24 03:37:31 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i actually had no idea that luck was from the devil - but it seems like almost everything fun and good is, so why should this be any different. i'm glad i'm not christian
2007-10-26 04:48:06 · update #1
Not really, no.
I believe the randomness of the universe can be modified (but not removed) by action.
Wiccan.
2007-10-24 03:45:16 · answer #1 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
A Christian perspective on luck.
When a person rolls the dice to play a board game, God may sometimes cause the dice to land a certain way, but I would guess that more often than not in such inconsequential matters, He may allow the dice to land as his laws of nature would determine without any active involvement. But even when He is not actively involved, how the dice land are still under His sovereignty.
So it is for any event of life, no matter how small (Matthew 10:29-31) or how large (Daniel 4:35; Proverbs 21:1), God is sovereign over all (Ephesians 1:11; Psalm 115:3; Isaiah 46:9-10) and thus nothing is merely the matter of chance.
2007-10-24 10:49:10 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
--NO , BECAUSE she is a false goddess "Lady Luck" and the God of the Bible condemned the Israelites for the worship of her:
ISAIAH 65:11,12 (CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH VERSION)
"11What will I, the LORD, do if any of you reject me and my holy mountain? What will happen to you for offering food and wine to the gods you call "Good Luck" and "Fate"?
12Your luck will end! I will see to it that you are slaughtered with swords. You refused to answer when I called out; you paid no attention to my instructions. Instead, you did what I hated, knowing it was wrong.
--DID JESUS or any of the disciples ever express any reliance on Lady Luck, or wish anyone "good luck"?
--THAT INDEED should tell Bible believers that there is something strange about this false goddess, no matter how popular she is!
--POPULARITY has never had God's approval in true worship:
(Jeremiah 8:5-7) . . .Why is it that this people, Jerusalem, is unfaithful with an enduring unfaithfulness? They have taken hold of trickiness; they have refused to turn back.
-- 6Â I have paid attention, and I kept listening. It was not right the way they kept speaking. There was not a man repenting over his badness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Each one is going back into the POPULAR COURSE (my caps), like a horse that is dashing into the battle. 7Â Even the stork in the heavens—it well knows its appointed times; and the turtledove and the swift and the bulbul—they observe well the time of each one’s coming in. But as for my people, they have not come to know the judgment of Jehovah.”’
--AS ONE of Jehovah's Witnesses , we find it offensive to our God and to us to give homage to luck or ANY SIMILAR goddess such as "Mother Nature"--(Gaia) as a fertility goddess, that many have traded for the God of Jesus, Jehovah!
2007-10-24 11:00:12 · answer #3 · answered by THA 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Quote " Everything that I have I attribute to good luck , but I notice that I'm twice as lucky when I work twice as hard ".
2007-10-24 13:28:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist.
I do not believe in luck. I believe reality is plentitudnal. I believe we live in a mathematics based multiverse where all possible outcomes occur.
2007-10-24 10:42:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. I believe all things happen for a reason.
Romans 8:28 All things work together for good for those called according to God's purpose.
2007-10-24 10:42:10 · answer #6 · answered by Teddy's Mom 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Luck is another word for the devil, I as a christian do not believe in luck. I think we set things in motion and sometime through prayer God changes things for us.
2007-10-24 10:41:32 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Luck is pretty ambiguous.
I think some people are destined to reach certain goals and others no matter how hard they try are not. I think we are all 'called' to certain vocations in life and if we try to run away from that vocation we are pretty darn miserable in life.
2007-10-24 10:54:59 · answer #8 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ummmmm
i think those gremlins from the progressive car commercials are following me around everywhere I go....
so I hope there is some kind of luck out there to balance them out!!!
2007-10-24 17:43:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I believe in personal choices, and (ocassionally) in divine appointments. I don't believe in some random force of "luck" that governs us.
2007-10-24 10:41:32 · answer #10 · answered by lizardmama 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. I believe in blessings from the Lord. I am a Christian.
2007-10-24 10:45:35 · answer #11 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋