very well said :)

I don't fear any man and their imaginary smugness. I see "imaginary friend" and I laugh... Why, because I'm not ashamed, nor embarrassed by someone's imaginary "superior" intelligence.

Just sayin' that who the eff cares about someone's real mental shortcomings...
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Fear what good is fear? we have, all thought that. Do good and good will come back to you a surety to tell.

Yahweh is fear yet Yahweh is good. Almost confusing. Confusion, confuses are they the same? I don't and don't really care.. I sure don't fear them whatever, the lost forgiven. Imaginary friends. ( oh my) Are you one of them ? are you over thier? I need something I've lost control. We look and we see yet never understand. when a Good heart is always at hand. Whatever has come has gone away some. From tents they came. we look back, does any want to try? its almost weeks end. Were proud of our metal tent. We pretend.. That's what was taught is no more no good. what grampa said was a delay. a long time a coming 420 they cried. I just need a feeling any at all. so much to say and so little time. I' ll imagine you made it to the end.

Do not fear god unless u sin and do not ask for forgiveness
Rebuke Satan ask holy spirit in
God never leave you youleave him
Holy spirit can not live in the same body as Satan so keep asking holy spirit in rebuke satan

Fear is not always a bad thing. People used to fear what they did not know. So they gave it a name. But did that make it less fearful? Sometimes it did if they could figure it out. But what if they could not figure it out? They might have thought Forsake Everything And Run. That would explain Eden to me. By why then be afraid of paradise? Maybe because we can't really control paradise. Maybe because we have to just accept that we are just human after all. If we thought of God in this way it might make being afraid of God tangible. Some just think that God is intangible so they can fear what they don't think is tangible. An unknown fear can be something hard to deal with. It is human to be afraid of something that is greater than one's self. There is a difference in a rational fear and an irrational fear. What if there was something you thought you should be afraid of but you aren't? Is that rational or irrational fear? What if there was something you are afraid of but don't know why? Is that rational or irrational fear? Is it rational to be afraid of ignorance? Sometimes what we don't know can hurt us.

My "fear of God" translates into the unshakable faith that what goes around comes around.

The laws of cause and effect barely scratch the surface of the true quantum soup we are dealing with in this organic simulated matrix of light and sound.

Why are you trying to define fear as bad?


Or are you trying to say you can live without it?


Or that you have matured to the point that you are above it?


Yes those who put 'God fearing' in there profile are looking for people who understand what it means. Clearly many of you don't. Others have attempted to help define what it means so I wont do it again. They did a fine job.

But those who do not have a healthy respect for fear and its purpose are the ones who are controlled by fear.

Its called denial. Its no different than the person who screams out "I don't need help!" when they are in trouble. Truth be told, we all can use help in some areas of our lives.


Fear
worry
jealousy
anger
wrath
sadness
Joy
elation
grief

These are all legitimate feelings. Learn to respect them, accept them and you will learn to no be controlled by them. (But control how you react to them)

As for being God fearing, I would never want to disappoint my Lord. Thats what a healthy fear does. But I do fall short and I know He knows I will. Thats why he already gave out forgiveness for me the moment I ask for it. Thats respect. thats love. That's having a healthy 'fear' of disappointing my Father because I long for his respect of me. And his approval of who I am striving to be. And I remain in Awe and Respect of Him and how perfectly he put his plan in motion in my life.

Respect.

I like that!! Shalom

If there was a God, would it really have made man ! possibly the most destructive species in the Universe. Of course, the word of God is always ever changing, simply because it comes out of the mouths of people.

lol.


that is actually not true. The foundations of Christianity have not change one ounce. How people keep trying to redefine Christianity changes all the time.

And what came out of the mouths of flawed man over hundreds of years, from fishermen to doctors, became the most congruent source of words ever written including books written by only one person.

you seem to say that its not true but then go onto agree with what I said !

So how many people have died and are dying becasue of a LOVING GOD (ALLAH)? If god was all about the love god would tell us to stop.

But free will screws with divine intervention something big now...

Here is how I see God. God is ALL things. This includes what we don't or cannot see irrespective of scale. But God being all things means God is Good AND God is EVIL! There is no Satan. WE are Satan if anything. Now with that in mind let us look at scale of what God is. If God is everything including OUR universe and others (taking into account Planar existence is a reality. Planar meaning other dimensional "Planes" or universes). Well, where are we in the universe? If you could see the whole universe would you be able to see Me for instance? Consider in the scale of seeing everything the universe would look like a glowing cloud of dust... which means that entire galaxies would be less than specks while starts are smaller than subatomic particles. And then you have the 'void' surrounding that. Infinite is a tough thing to wrap a mind around. So with that in mind in all reality we more than likely DON'T matter at all to god. Why? Being of God we are god and being god we are all a facet of his existence living a pseudo dream. I sure didn't make this life up. But with that said maybe the point of living is to fracture our self from God successfully because I bet God is BOARD out of Gods mind. All of God's made up friends so far have given him nothing but trouble.

But even I am the first to admit I do not have enough information and I am only casting an opinion here.

In a nutshell, God is so big he is Bigger than big, God also is probably a hermaphrodite... We don't know and I sure cannot see God being some guy with a beard.

How many people would feel ripped off if God looked like the one in South Park?

Andy, you better fear God cause I heard he's coming to get you, and he's packing heat.

For a second I thought you said he was packing MEAT!!!!

Having fear for god doesn't necessarily means to be scared of god but scared off sinning . God is love . We all have love for are children , wife ext. But god is love .
Until Gods day of glory , Armageddon (vengeance upon man for the blood of the innocent)will come like a thief at night. those who do the will of god will receive the crown of life. Fear of sinning upon god ( the winked will parish)

You prove my point, thank you...

@msharmony- So you respect std's then? I respect many for their deeds and would lose that respect if I feared them. Also, if god is perfect and all lovin then I would not fear him/her/it. That is just an ignorant human coined phrase to keep you in line.

@jeaniebean- funny, the bible does not preach or even mention karma. The closest thing is when it says, "judge not for you too will be judged." I find this phrase truthful, but on a human level not a spiritual one. Judge a person and they will simply judge you in the same way to rationalize why they think you are wrong or no better. Karma is succinctly Hindu. So while you have faith in your label, you believe in others that are not compatible with your defined faith.

@hikerjohn- Well said, but an ill example. I fear fallin because I will get hurt. Fear invokes fight or flight which can save your life. Fear of real things is healthy, fear of imaginary things is not. Fearing a god is one of those unhealthy things.