Fear Him. fearing God is part of faith, as God told Abraham.
read from ur Bible:
Genesis 22:12
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God.....
what do you think? is love is enough ?
2006-10-26 17:23:18 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
garfields answer is the best answer (first one)
you would fear to upset someone you love
2006-10-26 17:33:38 · answer #1 · answered by whatever 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love and respect Him. I think the Hebrew word is more like a respectful awe, "yirah Yahweh."
The whole vengeful, jealous, angry God concept is just so anthropocentric and abusive that I can't accept it, no matter what the Bible says. So who wrote the Bible? A bunch of misogynistic male chauvinists with a very low education. They may have felt they had faith, but how much did they understand the God of Truth and Light?
They may have confused the wrath of God with the fury of the Devil. Or maybe those Hindus have a point, with this Shiva, goddess of creation and destruction. Still, I think fear only gets you so far if you're trying to understand G-d. As I said, respect Him, but don't fear Him too much.
2006-10-26 17:30:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both... God is not a God of religion, but He is a God of relationship. He is omnipotent and multi-faceted. He wants to be loved AND feared by us. The fear He is talking about is not a "scared" fear, but that word "fear" in the greek means reverence.. He has many different parts to His personalities, just like you.
2006-10-26 17:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by DanielleJane 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First off in response to an answer above. God has never changed. He is the same today, yesterday and forever.
The fear you are referring to is a respect of who he is, and what he can do.
Love is definitely enough, if a person comes to love God he probably already respects him.
If you don't respect him you probably won't love him.
2006-10-26 17:43:45 · answer #4 · answered by suthrndaysi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is merely the evolution of the language. The great King James Version uses "fear" in its contemporary sense which was a better know synonym for love then now.But the beauty of KJV, which is one of the greatest pieces of poetry in the language (it established modern English) as well as serious theology, uses the double meaning in fear as 'whom one loves one fears (respects) or children should fear (respect) their parents.
American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source
fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Ignorant or inexperienced individuals get involved in situations that wiser persons would avoid, as in I've never heard this symphony and here I am conducting itoh well, fools rush in where angels fear to tread, or He tried to mediate their unending argument fools rush in. This expression, so well known it is sometimes shortened as in the second example, is a quotation from Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism (1709): "No place so sacred from such fops is barr'd ... Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
see fear in www.dictionary.com"
2006-10-26 17:58:28 · answer #5 · answered by hellerbelloc 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
If you love the Lord, you will spend time with him. You will learn about him. You will see his attributes. You will see the Mighty and Awesome God that he is.
The one that made the World in six days. The one that smote Sodom and Gomorrah with Fire and Sulfur. The one that took all of the firstborn children of Egypt. The one that took the first Solomon in judgment of David.
If you know him, you will love, fear, obey, and trust him.
2006-10-26 17:29:50 · answer #6 · answered by lovingdaddyof2 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
i do love God and i believe it's more of reverence that I feel for him and not fear.
the Old testament God is a vengeful God,my friend.but we are now in the period of grace and the Lord loves us so so much.
the 2 testaments' description of God differs and reading the Bible should be done in context and history.
2006-10-26 19:40:44 · answer #7 · answered by malax1925 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a Christian I LOVE GOD, He loved me first.
Demons in hell fear him without loving him.
If I live my life with my eyes on him and the life I will have in Heaven then I don't have to fear him. Only when i sin without repenting do i need to fear him.
2006-10-26 17:34:26 · answer #8 · answered by sjk60pete 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the same thing. You love him so much, you're afraid to live without him. But in the end, perfect love casts out fear; and there is only love.
Kind of like falling in love, and growing into mature love.
2006-10-26 17:27:22 · answer #9 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Did you love your parents but sometimes fear them? Same is true for God.
2006-10-26 17:25:14 · answer #10 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋