Is anyone afraid of God?

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Nice Girl Profile
Nice Girl answered

Of course I am afraid of God! I feel his fear every day!

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Ray Dart
Ray Dart commented
You should not be afraid of "bogey men" (and God (if he exists)) would be a bit upset about being an object of fear. He is, after all, supposed to be all understanding and all-forgiving, is he not?
Nice Girl
Nice Girl commented
Yes he is but I'm sorry I don't agree with you, we as humans, though we might not feel so, are really wrong and bad, and we don't observe the things we do wrong! So... God exists after all!
John McCann Profile
John McCann answered

No, I am not afraid of imaginary beings.

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John McCann
John McCann commented
Normally I would end when I say end but you believers can not get away with that "Well, believe what you wish. " Nonsense with me.

It is unbelief!! To say I have belief would be the same as saying non stamp collecting is a hobby, abstinence is a sex position, bald is a hairstyle and off is a TV station.

Something you believers can not seem to get. Goodbye.
Nice Girl
Nice Girl commented
I get it very well! But you don't get it!i I don't know about the other things but not believing in something is also somehow called believing to correct you!
Darik Majoren
Darik Majoren commented
Nice girl your presupposition is cute, but you must understand you were predisposed to believe as you do. I usually follow sometimes with "Not that there's anything wrong with that . . . " But really there is. I know because I was also indoctrinated in my youth . . . Free thought is so much better.
Excellent (by the way) John.
Cyber Tooth Tiger Profile

Yes, I am scared because I want go to Heaven when I die, I've heard too many stories of people dying and going to the gates of hell, they were getting a warning from God of what could happen if we don't follow him.

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Lynn Blakeman answered

People are afraid of God. We hear all the time of "God fearing"  people but I don't think they mean that they believe that God will do terrible things for no good reason, but rather that they are afraid to do evil as God will be unhappy with them.

Personally I think as long as our values are correct, we have no problem. 
For those who believe in God, they have rules to live by. They believe that they will go to hell if they do wrong, and that is enough generally to keep them on the straight and narrow path.

For non-believers, it is just a case of living by their own moral code. I don't need to go to church to learn that I shouldn't kill anyone because I already know that this is wrong, and I have no desire to hurt anyone. I don't lie, cheat and steal for the same reasons.

Personally, I have never understood the "fear of God". 
Religious people say that he is the God of love and would do anything for us, so why fear Him?

As I said earlier, I think it is more to do with His judgement and how we will spend our time in the next life that people are afraid of, rather than God himself, but we each have our own minds and believe what we choose.

Darik Majoren Profile
Darik Majoren answered

To fear that which is NOT is a waste of energy.

I found an interesting description of how fear and the "God Concept" worked hand in hand. As we evolved from our lower primate type group to the humans we are now, we had many more predators. A rustle in tall grass we could pass off as the wind or err on the side of caution and consider it might be a predator. Those creatures that had the instinct to err on the side of caution tended to live longer because more often then not, it wasn't wind . . . And so those without the instinctual fear were food.

We tend to "Fear First" just in case as part of our natural instinct. But upon embracing reality and logic, we SHOULD be moving beyond that Particular fear . . .

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strawberry girl answered
Hebrews 4:16 "Therefore
let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may
receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."
For those who know God, there is no reason to be afraid. For those who reject God, there is every reason to be afraid.

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