Are you afraid of God and his punishing powers?

Answer 1

It's a mixed feeling...I am afraid of Him when I read the Apocalyps, but I can feel his helping power in everyday life. To be honest, because of my sins, I am quite afraid at the time being.

Answer 2

It is quite interesting that you emphasized the "punishing" aspect of many gods in your question. I bet you are a member of a more primitive religion, such as a 12th century style of Wahabbi Muslim or a Southern Baptist.

Am I close?

By emphasizing that your god is a "punishing" one, followers may better feel secure that if they are "good' they will be more deserving of protection from the random life events that everyone desparately seeks to control. It's true that less "vengeful" gods DO seem to remind one of the unlikely situation of being able to "get something for nothing".

Me? I haven't had an invisable friend (like "god") since I was a little child. I wish I could forget science and logic and believe, but alas...I'm stuck being a reasonable adult.

Answer 3

Most definitely!! Some years back I experienced cancer. At the time, I did not believe in God as i could not believe that God would create a world where is so much pain and no peace. Simplistic I know. But to cut the long story short, I took on a course of meditation and within a space of three months, the meditation did not make the cancer go away but I was clearly 'directed' to a caring surgeon who performed the surgery successfully.

Since then, I certainly believe in God and that he has given us free will, in other words, cause and effect - any action you perform, there has to be repercussions. Even in your thoughts, if you give out negativity, then you get negativity in return. I have become so conscious. If I tell lies, then I experience lies, if I consciously harm someone, either physically or verbally then the same will come back to me. I see this 'acted' out before me on a daily basis. Through myself or by other people.

My fear of God is that he made it totally clear how I should live my life and even though I can make my own choices, he still keeps his beady eye on things.

Answer 4

What sort of a ridiculous question is this? God does NOT punish, God is only LOVE.

Man only punishes himself.

Answer 5

Of course not.....God never punishes anyone for anything. We create our own realities, and When God gave us the gift of free will, it was because he/she wanted us to use it, to experience everything there is to experience, so that he/she can experience everything through all of us.

Answer 6

Yes I fear God and respect my parents, I do not kill, do not desire the wife of my neighbor, do not steal in the Fridge, I am impervious to jealousy and lust, there is only one commandment I tread upon : when I see a moron, I can't restrain to tell him he's a moron. Shall I be punished by God for that ?

Answer 7

I do not fear the Christian God, even if he is real. Power does not make one a superior being. Only virtue does. If I burn in hell, then so be it. It is better to die free, than to live the life of a slave.

Answer 8

Only if I end up having children for him to kill as punishment for President Bush's actions.

Answer 9

God does not punish (at least not directly). we only suffer natural consequences. the rules determining these consequences are unchangable even by God and were set b4 our existence. these rules are responsible for universal harmony.

Answer 10

yes. fearing God is a part of faith. and that's not only with Islam but also christianity.


2 Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

2 Chronicles 19:7
Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.