Please support your answer with Bible. I mean the Bible not some whorish liberal translation, King James only; I am a fundamentalist.
2007-11-12 10:41:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all knowledge, wisdom in Proverbs 1:7 and Psalm 111:10
The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever according to psalm 19
According to 2 Samuel and Nehemiah it is what rulers should rule both with and by
without it the wicked transgress according to psalms 36:1
It is the agent by which Holiness is perfected according to 2 Corinthians 7:1
Christians are to submit themselves to eachother in it according to Ephesians chapter 5
in 2 Chronicles it spared the armies of Jehosophat
Job 28:28 says it is synoptic with departing from evil
To do an exhasutive answer would take me way too long, but the most repetative answer likens the fear of God to departing from Evil or knowing God/right/truth
2007-11-12 11:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew P (SL) 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the King James Bible is a great source.
But get back to the Original Kingdom Gospel and read the story of the Prodigal Son to find the kind of loving heavenly Father that Jesus was actually talking about.
The fear that you speak of is the "big stick" for the Pauline Gospel... That kind of heavenly Father is not the one Jesus himself preached.
2007-11-12 10:55:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thank God for another KJV user!
For sure it is not a craven fear, as the pagans have in their worship of idols.
The 'fear of the LORD' is having an experimental sense of one of His blessed attribute, ie His Omnipresence. Alas, few of us ever had that experimental sense of Him. Most and many of us are so caught up with our cares of this life that we hardly have an experimental sense of Him.
eg are we thankful for daily mercies?
when we have coffee break, are we immersed in worldly conversations, politics rather than to spend a quiet moment thinking of the goodness of God upon us, where did the coffee or milk come from, are we thankful for His goodness .... peradventure the goodness of God leadeth us to repentance (Rom 2:4)?
Lamentations 3:1-26
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2007-11-12 13:52:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fear=Respect
2007-11-12 10:53:21 · answer #4 · answered by Notagain 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
god fearing..
It is not the fear that god will do something. It is the fear of the followers of god will do something for god. Like in the burning times for witches all it took was a christian wanting some revenge and a person was accused of being a witch and was harrass and/or killed.
2007-11-12 10:57:13 · answer #5 · answered by bluesagedragon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That word fear in this sense means respect for the Lord for who he is.
It is supposed to be reguarded as the same kind of respect you would give a King.
2007-11-12 10:48:26 · answer #6 · answered by Tommiecat 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
understanding the greatness of God, not seeing him a cuddly care bear in heaven but a just God and a righteous judge. the anger of the Lord is something to be feared, thank God it is no longer upon us in Christ Jesus.
Christians with the fear of God will go a long way.
2007-11-12 10:46:45 · answer #7 · answered by mg© - anti VT™ MG AM© Fundi4Life 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I realized long ago Jesus is not a fundamentalist but a liberator of my soul,with gifts from him.LOVE changes people not condemnation,Jesus took that condemnation on the cross for us.In our place he took our punishment,oh what a great love he is.Shalom
2007-11-12 10:47:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fear - awe, reverence, anxiety
Awe - looking into the night sky and seeing the unnumbered stars and know that they were all created
Reverence - to know that I am loved unconditionally, that He sent His son to die for my salvation
Anxiety - that the sentence for any of my sins is death in Hell forever without Grace
2007-11-12 10:52:50 · answer #9 · answered by Philip T 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lev. 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death.
Ex. 31:15 Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Ex. 21:15 He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Ex. 21:17 He that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Ex. 22:19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Lev. 20:13 If a man lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they
shall surely be put to death.
Lev. 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, the adulterer
and the adulteress shall be put to death.
Ex. 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live
1 Sam 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (so much for the American Revolution).
Mal. 2:1-4 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If you will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name,...behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces. (Will Jesus do the spreading of the dung??)
2007-11-12 10:44:52 · answer #10 · answered by kloneme 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋