By making the sheeple believe that fearing this hate filled god is the beginning of wisdom, they made sure that they would never dare to think independent thoughts.
2007-11-20 07:34:17 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Agree?
After all, Adam and Eve were kicked out of Eden for obtaining knowledge.
2007-11-20 07:35:58 · update #1
FYI I am a deist!
2007-11-20 07:38:17 · update #2
What sort of God is it that actually wants its creation to be afraid of it? A pretty unsavoury one in my view. It's not so much clever PR as just a plain and simple means of controlling the masses through fear.
Personally, I cannot accept that any god has all the worst human characteristics. If fear in this context means respect then that implies god needs or wants something. It's ridiculous to suggest an all powerful god could need or want anything whatsoever.
2007-11-20 07:49:31 · answer #1 · answered by Robin H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
worry of the Lord the — is in the previous testomony used as a designation of actual piety (Prov. a million:7; interest 28:28; playstation . 19:9). it rather is a terror conjoined with love and need, and is consequently not a slavish dread, yet quite filial reverence. (Comp. Deut. 32:6; Hos. 11:a million; Isa. a million:2; sixty 3:sixteen; sixty 4:8.) God is talked approximately as “the terror of Isaac” (Gen. 31:40 two, fifty 3), i.e., the God whom Isaac feared. A holy worry is enjoined additionally in the recent testomony as a preventive of carelessness in faith, and as an incentive to penitence (Matt. 10:28; 2 Cor. 5:11; 7:a million; Phil. 2:12; Eph. 5:21; Heb. 12:28, 29).
2016-10-02 03:40:37 · answer #2 · answered by dobrzykowski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the one hand:
If God is real, and vengeful, fear of God is genuinely the beginning of wisdom: it's like saying "See that guy sitting alone at his own lunchroom table? Don't bother him, and if he ever talks to you, do what he says, because he can beat you up and he has a quick temper."
On the other hand: Fear God and have blind faith - now you have a combo people can work with.
2007-11-20 07:42:30 · answer #3 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If they had said it made you better looking and more popular, they probably could sell even more. But, telling people that blind fear somehow makes us smart is a nice little ego stroke that a lot of people will pay for too.
2007-11-20 07:41:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fear is rarely the beginning of anything productive. Often it's the beginning of loss of bladder control, though.
2007-11-20 07:51:48 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus Chrysler 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The word 'fear' in this passage is not talking about being afraid. It is talking about a healthy respect. Like the same 'fear' you had for your parents growing up. You loved your parents as a kid and they loved you, but you knew that if you crossed the line, they were going to take a belt to that behind. Same with christians and our God.
2007-11-20 07:42:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are a funny individual! To think that the Almighty God is hateful but for some reason you are breathing His air and able to say such wretched things about Him. You need to understand the word fear. Why don't you get a dictionary get off YA!, stop making a fool of yourself and go learn something! Or be like those other monkey lovers and join Athiest Mafia.
2007-11-20 07:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
fear of other humans was the beginning of wisdom for me
2007-11-20 07:42:05 · answer #8 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why this would ever catch on. Interesting product placement. Personally, I'd have gone with something like buy one get one free rather than the fear thing.
2007-11-20 07:37:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
atheist here - very true its almost sickening to here that eating from the tree of knowlege is a sin?? lol are they joking this is seriously bad for intelligence in our species, but of course it is intelligence that is a huge enemy of religion so i guess it makes sense
2007-11-20 07:43:46 · answer #10 · answered by Seargent Gork 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋