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Well it's not directly spoken of but crows and ravens are rats with wings they show up wherever there is a corpse to feed on like a cow or a fallen animal or person. both in the bible and even nowadays in movies and books crows and ravens are seen as an omen or death not simply because they are black but because wherever death is if you leave it there you can bet these things will show up in swarms
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What you're doing is using secular superstition to give meaning to some random happening. The notion of "good/bad luck" by some obscure event (black cats, breaking mirror, etc) is superstition with no spiritual, scientific or biblical basis.
I find we notice things more once we put an emphasis on it. For example I dated a woman from Illinois once, not far from Chicago.
It seemed everywhere I looked I saw Illinois or Chicago. To me it felt like a sudden onslaught of mentions of there areas.
What actually happened is I was simply more aware of them so when they were mentioned I actually noticed, where as I previously I had no reason for it to stand out.
Anything we place an emphasis on will standout more when it comes up. That doesn't mean its suddenly more common, but rather we never had a reason to notice before.
Given the things you're dealing with I'd say you have a higher tendency to fall into such mental traps.
If you're going to bypass logic and insist there's some magic meaning to this then there's this.
1 Kings 17:2-16 New International Version (NIV)
Elijah Fed by Ravens
2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
I find we notice things more once we put an emphasis on it. For example I dated a woman from Illinois once, not far from Chicago.
It seemed everywhere I looked I saw Illinois or Chicago. To me it felt like a sudden onslaught of mentions of there areas.
What actually happened is I was simply more aware of them so when they were mentioned I actually noticed, where as I previously I had no reason for it to stand out.
Anything we place an emphasis on will standout more when it comes up. That doesn't mean its suddenly more common, but rather we never had a reason to notice before.
Given the things you're dealing with I'd say you have a higher tendency to fall into such mental traps.
If you're going to bypass logic and insist there's some magic meaning to this then there's this.
1 Kings 17:2-16 New International Version (NIV)
Elijah Fed by Ravens
2 Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: 3 “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 4 You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”
5 So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6 The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.
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Ugly does have a valid point, it's easy to fall into the trap that something means something when it doesn't. I used to actually be like that when i was brand new to faith, I thought lots of things I saw was a sign from God or a warning and then I saw it everywhere and went way to far. I was looking at everything with a hyped spiritual eye making things appear to me to be something that they really weren't I threw logic to the side and just assumed what I thought the meaning of something was is exactly what it was.
Discernment is vital as it is true that God will show us signs like that sometimes but a lot of times it's more of what we want it to be or mean than naything
Discernment is vital as it is true that God will show us signs like that sometimes but a lot of times it's more of what we want it to be or mean than naything
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I’m definitely not trying too. I was just wondering why... and I don’t as curious to why the crow/raven meant something so bad. I think I read so many stories and heard others talk about how they have seen them, and then something bad happens.
Like even as a child my grandmother she loved the Lord but she also believed in superstitions, and ever since those birds really bothered me. I will agree I am super aware of them so much now
Like even as a child my grandmother she loved the Lord but she also believed in superstitions, and ever since those birds really bothered me. I will agree I am super aware of them so much now