It will never be stated more clearly than in B’Midbar 14:11, 12. If you’re wondering if haShem is OK with a passive belief but not an active trust in him, it can’t get more blunt than this:
Adonai said to Moshe, “How much longer is this people going to treat me with contempt? How much longer will they not trust me, especially considering all ths signs I have performed among them? I am going to strike them with sickness, destroy them and make from you a nation greater and stronger than they are!”
Does it sound like vacation home Orlando time for the Hebrew people here? Look, haShem is patient, no doubt about it. Were he not, we’d all be struck down before we were conceived. Long-suffering? Sure thing.
But does that mean he appreciates us not trusting him while claiming to have faith. The scriptural evidence points to: no.
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