"God loves all but be fearful of him all the time too!"
The way Christians see God sounds like an abusive relationship to me.
I'm not living in a world where God wants me to fear him or would use fear to persuade me to follow him. I choose to believe God is better than that because I choose to be better than that and I am a mere human.
The exercise of justice is a joy for the righteous, but it is a terror to the workers of iniquity -Proverbs 21:15
You only have to fear the Lord's judgment & wrath if you're an unrepentant doer of evil. While fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, as you progress past the beginning stages of learning you eventually come to understand that God protects his own and only those who despise righteousness are people who should be terrified over their future punishment.
Did you have a parent you didn’t want to disappoint? Like if you disrespected them you felt super shameful and terrible for how you acted or how you disobeyed them? That’s the kind of fear Christians are talking about. You fear Him in the way you don’t want to offend Him or disappoint him because you respect Him so. You recognize his love for you and whenever you hurt him, you fear how he will feel, and you feel sorrow for how he will always forgive you even when you think you don’t deserve it.
"God loves all but be fearful of him all the time too!"
The way Christians see God sounds like an abusive relationship to me.
I'm not living in a world where God wants me to fear him or would use fear to persuade me to follow him. I choose to believe God is better than that because I choose to be better than that and I am a mere human.
The exercise of justice is a joy for the righteous, but it is a terror to the workers of iniquity -Proverbs 21:15
You only have to fear the Lord's judgment & wrath if you're an unrepentant doer of evil. While fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, as you progress past the beginning stages of learning you eventually come to understand that God protects his own and only those who despise righteousness are people who should be terrified over their future punishment.
Exactly, clear cabal influence. Living in shame and fear of a supposedly loving God or else.
Did you have a parent you didn’t want to disappoint? Like if you disrespected them you felt super shameful and terrible for how you acted or how you disobeyed them? That’s the kind of fear Christians are talking about. You fear Him in the way you don’t want to offend Him or disappoint him because you respect Him so. You recognize his love for you and whenever you hurt him, you fear how he will feel, and you feel sorrow for how he will always forgive you even when you think you don’t deserve it.