So why are Christians so happy to claim that they are "God-fearing folk"? They claim to love god with everything they have, but they also fear him/her/it. I don't think fear and love go together.
And please don't answer this with bible quotes, or telling me I'm going to hell.
2006-07-15 14:41:07 · 19 answers · asked by Bright Eyes 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2006-07-15 14:48:03 · update #1
LyKe OmG!!!!!! i kant beleif u wood thay such a ting aboot dee jesus chris??!?!? u wont be abel two shake up my fate gurl! i luve and live fro the JESUS! u def goin to hell, and lake fire and brimestone and horny demons! wait, i mean demons with horns! have u eva read the bible. i know i have dont!! Jose 15:1 "let jesus eat peaches without napkin!" if uz were smar and edukated lyke myself u wood understand that passage. i will pray4uzzzz.
2006-07-15 23:20:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know what makes you think fear has anything to do with this. It doesn't. Fear and Love do not go together and anyone who has fear of God, does not have love. I love God and rest peacefully in His loving care every moment of my life and there is no fear. God is my loving Father.
2006-07-15 21:48:18 · answer #2 · answered by Mamma mia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would try to "love" this person without the gun to my head. The gun doesn't change the fact we should love one another. Fear in the "God-fearing" terminology is not a fear meaning afraid....in this context it means to be in awe of.
2006-07-15 21:47:27 · answer #3 · answered by Greenwood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the answer is logical. does not a child love his parents and yet fear them? does not he fear that if he does a wrong thing his parents will punish him for that. and even if he is punished does his love for them grow less? it does not, if his parents punish him fairly and not unjustly his love for them will only grow more. he might not perhaps realise the reason for his parents' action right at the same time. Sometimes it might take him years to understand why his parents acted like that in a particular time.. and when he realises the right reason he will love them more. but even if his parents punish him, he trusts them and knows that they did it for a right reason. and hence even in complete love there is the fear of justice for whatever he does wrong. And in the case of God he is perfect love and yet he hates sin, so we as christians know we sin and so we fear God because he punishes us for sin, but yet as a loving father we know he loves us and no matter what happens he will bring us to him in the end. And so even if we love him much we have fear of his wrath against our sinfulness.. and will your parents ever put a gun to your head.. they will warn you that you are going to destroy yourself.. and they will try the best to bring you back.. God also does the same.. he also warns us that if we live our sinful lives we will be destroyed and he tries the best to bring us back.. but he never puts a gun on our head.. he loves us and even if he did not.. I can't imagine why he would have the need make someone to fear him and hence love him.
and lastly our love is not perfect.. in our life God teaches gradually how to love him perfectly. 1Jo 4:18 There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love. and lastly if I honestly say about myself.. my love for God always excels my fear of him that I really can say that I don't find myself fearing the Lord in the sense that I am afraid of him. If I am afraid of something it is only the sinful nature in me which the Lord despises.
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and please don't call anyone stupid just because they do not understand you or answered in a different way.. we are only trying to explain ourselves.
2006-07-15 21:56:27 · answer #4 · answered by smashingdon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there are different types of love just as there are different types of fear... I can love my spouse but at the same time be afraid that I am not pleasing him/her in the way he/she thinks I should... does that mean I am afraid he/she is going to physically hurt me? I think not.. kinda hard to explain i hope this helped.
2006-07-15 21:59:05 · answer #5 · answered by monie99701 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO.
but to comment on the rest of your statement it is much like your relationship with your parents. They disapline yuo (or at least I hope they did) yet you still love them. You obey them because you do not want to get in trouble. it is the same concept.
I hope that helps.
p.s.
I do not love GOD because I fear the alternative, I love him because I fear life without him and because of what he did for me.
2006-07-15 21:54:22 · answer #6 · answered by melissa s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have had a gun to my head... it is not a fun joke thing...I was not of the Christian Faith at the time... I hated him... I thought I was going to die... I did not... if I could have i would have killed him.... Now as one of the Christian Faith I can tell you that I love that one... I dont like him... and if I ever see him again I will avoid him... if he ever gets out of prison... But I do pray that a prison ministry will reach him and that he will be saved.
What would I do now...I would do as I did befor... talk him out of it if I could... If I saw no chance of that I would do whatever it took to keep from being shot.. yes, if necessary I would kill him... That is not forbidden to save yourself or the life of another. But I am forbiden to hate...
2006-07-15 21:51:49 · answer #7 · answered by IdahoMike 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Audry, If someone tell you they fear God. It is because they fear not have God in their life. If you love someone wouldn't you be afraid of them going away?
2006-07-16 03:02:22 · answer #8 · answered by always a friend 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feared my parents, but I loved them at the same time.
It's not a fear in the sense of being afraid, it's fear in the sense of revering and being in awe of someone.
2006-07-15 21:49:26 · answer #9 · answered by kojak0527 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bet, They hung Galileo upside down for saying that the hearth rotated around the sun, put him in jail until he recanted which he did, and let no talk about the inquisition, A gun to my head? you bet. and you are right, god shouldn't scare anybody to be loved
2006-07-15 21:52:03 · answer #10 · answered by class4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋