The Spirit of God is the light

Cathrine 2022-03-23 09:02:49

This film moves the scene to a deep church and directly explores the issue of faith. The solemn pastor is well-behaved on the surface, but his heart is struggling between reality and belief, because the hypocritical surface can't let him grasp the truth, and he can't see any kindness from his machine-like expression and numb ritual. When singing hymns, what is shown is a false and empty ritual. Children stick out their tongues to add dripping "blood of God", pregnant women have absent-minded eyes, move their lips like a textbook, and watch the time while playing the organ. There's something important to do, and now it's just a waste of time, numbly looking at the pastor with glasses, the pastor has his back to us all the time, the peeping eyes with slanted shoulders, the hypocritical lips seem to be full of evil, and later, that The organ player hurriedly closed the hymn book before he could sing the poem, as if he had completed the task, and threw it into the organ so proficiently that he sang so hypocritically. Finally, everyone left in a hurry. Obviously, the organ player must have run away, leaving only the lonely pastor and the church owner counting the donations. This commercial nature has flooded the church. A long shot of Marta reading the letter, in which she said, "My life is destined to be your slave." She denied the pastor's God and saw nothingness, but somehow she felt that she worshipped the world as God subjectively and belonged to the world. People in this world are not slaves of this nihilistic belief, or the slaves of the world. People constantly have to deny others, to affirm themselves, and to deny other people's nihilistic beliefs, but they still can't escape Satan's thoughts, which will lie for you in your heart, It always gives you a reason to hold on to it and keep enslaving it. Bergman commented on his "Winter Light": "Contrasting the priest's lack of faith with the rivalry of his former mistress, making her resentment a religious overtone, helps him understand through mortal love. A spiritual justification." Originally, the curly hair was talking to the pastor, and he got some instructions from it, hoping to get out of the confusion, but in the end it turned into the pastor's confession. He saw the devil in his heart. The God in my heart is nothing. He is imprisoned by the belief in this nothingness. He has no right to enjoy the world. He struggles with nothingness and worldly desires. Like a maze, there is no escape, this feeling of life is better than death, so that the curls who wanted to find redemption are completely pushed into death, this Bergman-style humor is so deep. 1 Samuel 16:7 "But the LORD said to Samuel, Don't look at his appearance or how tall he is, and I will not choose him. For it is not what a man thinks that matters; a man looks at his appearance, but the LORD looks at his heart." Jesus, the “lifebuoy”, was not united with the Lord in spirit, so he could not get God’s instructions and could not see the truth. Even Jehovah’s anointed Saul was no exception. When he acted according to his worldly thoughts, If he did not honor the words of the Lord, the Spirit of God would leave him. Even though he offered the best burnt offerings, it was only a formality. His heart was not directed toward God. What is the difference between this and the worldly sacrifices to gods and Buddhas? worldly interests. 1 Samuel 15:2 "Samuel said, Is the LORD as delighted in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to his voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and obedience is better than the fat of rams." Faith explored at the end of the video The question is similar to Bergman's expression of his doubts in "The Seventh Seal" through the way a knight asked the god of death. He tried to explore the path of faith from the perspective of the world. Obviously, worldly knowledge tries to test the god of wisdom who created the heavens and the earth. People will fall into secular beliefs, and people who seek beliefs with knowledge will fall into a whirlpool, because in this polluted reality, secular thoughts contain Satan’s thoughts, you can’t refute yourself, only by using God’s wisdom can you get real. Belief. Silence, God is not silence, God is the God of all of us, our Father in heaven, but how do we communicate with God, when sensitive people feel sin, but have not gained spiritual connection with God through our mediator, Jesus Christ. To communicate, one can only think that God is silent, what kind of helplessness. What is the difference between worshiping Buddha, worship is only for the benefit of the world. 1 Samuel 15:2 "Samuel said, Is the LORD as delighted in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to his voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and obedience is better than the fat of rams." Faith explored at the end of the video The question is similar to Bergman's expression of his doubts in "The Seventh Seal" through the way a knight asked the god of death. He tried to explore the path of faith from the perspective of the world. Obviously, worldly knowledge tries to test the god of wisdom who created the heavens and the earth. People will fall into secular beliefs, and people who seek beliefs with knowledge will fall into a whirlpool, because in this polluted reality, secular thoughts contain Satan’s thoughts, you can’t refute yourself, only by using God’s wisdom can you get real. Belief. Silence, God is not silence, God is the God of all of us, our Father in heaven, but how do we communicate with God, when sensitive people feel sin, but have not gained spiritual connection with God through our mediator, Jesus Christ. To communicate, one can only think that God is silent, what kind of helplessness. What is the difference between worshiping Buddha, worship is only for the benefit of the world. 1 Samuel 15:2 "Samuel said, Is the LORD as delighted in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obedience to his voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and obedience is better than the fat of rams." Faith explored at the end of the video The question is similar to Bergman's expression of his doubts in "The Seventh Seal" through the way a knight asked the god of death. He tried to explore the path of faith from the perspective of the world. Obviously, worldly knowledge tries to test the god of wisdom who created the heavens and the earth. People will fall into secular beliefs, and people who seek beliefs with knowledge will fall into a whirlpool, because in this polluted reality, secular thoughts contain Satan’s thoughts, you can’t refute yourself, only by using God’s wisdom can you get real. Belief. Silence, God is not silence, God is the God of all of us, our Father in heaven, but how do we communicate with God, when sensitive people feel sin, but have not gained spiritual connection with God through our mediator, Jesus Christ. To communicate, one can only think that God is silent, what kind of helplessness.

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  • Wendy 2022-03-23 09:02:49

    Most people in the world don't believe in the existence of God and even the Son eventually doubts the existence of the Father. What is salvation? What is salvation? , love seems to be the proof of God's existence

  • Terrill 2022-03-25 09:01:15

    Absolute five star. Bergman speaks so directly about God and faith this time around. Lots of close-ups, very concise, with a bit of a Bresson feel. The middle part of the Faith trilogy begins with the theme "Love is God" of "Still in the Mirror", and finally draws the theme of "God is silent" and enters the last "Silence".

Winter Light quotes

  • Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: I was a seaman's pastor in Lisbon, during the Spanish Civil War. I refused to accept reality. My God and I resided in an organized world where everything made sense. You see, I'm no good as a clergyman. I put my faith in an improbable and private image of a fatherly god. One who loved mankind, of course, but me most of all. Do you see, Jonas, what a monstrous mistake I made?

  • Tomas Ericsson, Pastor: An ignorant, spoiled and anxious wretch makes a rotten clergyman.