Do people really have a choice if they are choosing
god out of fear and not love?
Our Islam teachings tells us that people are not the same it is said that people are consisting of three groups explained here under: - Some worship
God out of fear and that is the worship of slaves.
Because the angels and inhabitants of other worlds would have served
God out of fear — they would not have understood why Satan was destroyed since sin was unknown then.
Not exact matches
Based on months
of negotiation, my conviction is that the German finance minister wants Greece to be pushed
out of the single currency to put the
fear of God into the French and have them accept his model
of a disciplinarian eurozone.
I had in my heart and tongue the Name
of Allah when ever I had
fears, troubles or depression
of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age
of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word
of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot
of reciting verses
of prayers begging
God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in
God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic
of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth
of many beliefs
out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that
God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief
of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance
of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front
of him and when was on the top
of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..
Kinda blows your «
fear God or society crumbles» theory
out of the water.
Logical deduction prevents them from continuing to believe on their own, but many are force fed the continued belief in
God out of their parents own indoctrinated
fears.
«Gott mitt uns» was a way to persuade the
god -
fearing idiots that getting the Jews
out of Germany was
god's will.
its not sad, it might be scary for you to believe things just are but at least we do not go through life doing good
out of fear of god, we do not go through life thinking the after life will be better.
You have defrauded people
out of their money with
fear and manipulation, telling them they had to tithe 10 %
of their income to your church and that
God would bless them if they did.
We aren't told what Thompson believes now» and his art does not require us to place him in any doctrinal camp» but by the end
of Habibi he seems to have least worked his way to a beautiful observation: «
God's followers worship not
out of the hope for reward nor
fear of punishment but
out of love.»
What about all the other
of God fearing folks
out there?
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands
of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode
of fear I live in a rough area
of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act
out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with
God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence
of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling
of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «
God» I can say from my heart
of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal
fears which I have noticed my
fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I
fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots
of good information to be plundered loll
It means the
god I followed for years
out of great
fear was cruel,
out to get me, tried to trick me into sinning, O, no they call it testing, he is gone, never existed.
Well, ignoring your childish ad hominem, why would you kowtow before a shallow, vain and unjust
god if it were not
out of fear of punishment or greed for the afterlife?
She shows readers how step
out in bravery and name their
fears out loud, choose to bring them to
God first before acting on them, and to trust
God to be the only planner
of our future.
I Quote Venus: One does not love
God,
out of fear of him, but
out of love for him
Jesus says to the two people on the road: can't you see that this had to happen — that the mechanisms
of division, the self - deceptive and ferocious need to make ourselves
out as innocent, the
fear of a violent
god who demands blood — how all that had to be undone?
One does not love
God,
out of fear of him, but
out of love for him.
But I remain convinced that serious doubt, the kind that leads to despair, does not begin when we start asking
God questions, but when
out of fear, we stop.
Tacia that is true one
of my favorite verses is if we love him we will obey him thats how we express our love for him he does nt want sacrifice he wants obedience but not
out of fear of judgement but because we love him with all our hearts and want to do all we can to show that we appreciate what he has done for us.The woman who offered the few mites gave everything she had the rich people gave
out of there abundance.Big difference it wasnt the value it was the attitude she gave her all to
God and
God honored her.The verse that comes to mind that sums it all up that we are to love the Lord with all our hearts mind soul and strength and love our neighbours as ourselves.brentnz
Only through the
fear of God does man enter so deep into the love
of God that he can not again be cast
out of it.
If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with
God you have now through years
of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and
fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn
out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about
God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.
This is why St. Paul can urge, without any apparent sense
of contradiction: «Work
out your own salvation with
fear and trembling, for it is
God who works in you, both to will and to work his good pleasure» (Philippians 2:12 - 13).
In a moment
of fear, she cries
out for
God and Winona Ryder's character responds, «I am here with you.»
Orthodox Christianity would seem to Davies ample enough to support this new life, but, whether through understandable caution or unthinking
fear, it has always been indisposed to accept any notion
of fullness that asks us not to cut off or pluck
out what we identify as evil, but rather to know it wholly — as part
of life, as part
of holiness, as part even
of God.
Human beings are to be obedient to
God's laws at least partly
out of fear of punishment if they are not.
I will call anyone
out who portrays hatred or absolute ignorance... I find that it's a blockade, most are so ingrained that they feel they are doing their
god justice by defending him... so in
fear they rant about the promise
of hell for not believing.
This, in turn, intensified the blasphemous thoughts I had towards
God and actually made me angry, fearful and resentful towards
God that I found myself wanting to say bad or blasphemous things against him,
out of bottled up frustration and
fear that I didn't know how to get rid
of.
Abraham may have been afraid or ashamed to push to the limit, either
out of a gradually increasing
fear that
God will judge him presumptuous or
out of embarrassment at revealing a personal interest in his one kinsman, Lot.
As a result, now at the end
of his adventures, Abraham is ready to replace the «reasons» for being a follower
of God: Originally, he answered the call largely
out of a desire for the promised reward; now, in a reversal, he is ready to follow
out of awe -
fear - reverence for the One Who promises.
Don't trust cps, they are involved because
God led me back in his love and I had a dream that these entities put
fear into me concerning an asteroid then proceded to suck the life / soul
out of me and as I cried
out to Jesus I woke up.
The church which he or she joined to receive sanction for a way
of life, to be assured that all was well with the country and that
God's blessing continued with us — this same church was now confronting the country with its national
fears and distortions and acting
out not
God's favor but
God's judgment.
No sympathy, no
fear stroking or babying,
God speaks
out of the storm to remind us that at the end
of all things and in the beginning
of all things He alone is
God.
I have found myself also breaking the chains
of legalism and relationship with
God based
out of fear.
God can not be fooled, He is calling us
out of our
fear and calling it what it is: a lack
of trust.
More and more I recognize the need to have some kind
of god out there is based on ego and
fear.
Unless we extend our idea
of authenticity to include not just our
fears and failures but also the vital and real changes that
God orchestrates in our lives, we miss
out on the complexity
of the Christian walk.
We are, our civil religion assures us, a
God -
fearing people, the champions
of religious liberty, and in many ways a nation that
God has chosen to carry
out a special mission in the world.
Maybe, it is a kin to a
fear in a Faithful if he or she has the relationship with
God or
Gods that is correct (religions)... but at least it is a Faith that something is
out there so there is not the same level
of fear we witness here from some Atheist and the ones that scream the most probably have more
fear than the others.
Those who either Love and / or
Fear GOD or even the
Gods; being GOD's Sons, they will be found
out and given their just treats and / or rewards in the abundancies
of ever lasting multi-diversities
of incarnations into the foreverness realms
of eternal inwardness.
God is simply a projection
of these desires,
feared and worshipped by human beings
out of an abiding sense
of helplessness.
Same for «
Fear God or burn in Hell», PullthePlugOnAtheism.org billboards, «Islam Rising... Be Warned», and actually «In
God We Trust», «One Nation [Under
God]...» Not to mention anti-science messages by Christian groups, such as «In the begining,
God created...» (with an X'd
out evolution -
of - man sequence picture), which is just silly.
Though the authority
of experience and character is gift
of grace it is also achievement on the part
of men who work
out their salvation with
fear and trembling because
God works in them.
A number
of more conservative leaders have expressed a nervousness about speaking
out, for
fear of being pilloried in the secular press, who certainly don't understand the rhetoric
of «love the sinner, hate the sin», or getting lumped in with Westboro Baptist Church and their appalling «
God Hates Fags» signs.
Yes, to be sure, it is a fact that there was a man who with the years forgot his childish
fear of God, was swindled
out of the best, and was taken in by that which was most insolent.
For in order to be aware
of oneself and
God imagination must enable a man to soar higher than the misty precinct
of the probable, it must wrench one
out of this and, by making possible that which transcends the quantum satis
of every experience, it must teach him to hope and
fear, or to
fear and hope.
Washington (CNN)- She wrote
of being in love, falling
out of love,
fearing a marriage to a skirt - chaser and then loving that marriage, and believing in
God to hold on to the hope
of reuniting with her assassinated husband.
«If there's one thing I know for sure, it's that serious doubt — the kind that leads to despair — begins not when we start asking
God questions but when,
out of fear, we stop.
After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all
of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life without stressing about all
of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak
out about it and live my entire life in
fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life without worrying about it and being nice to people and being an overall good person, and I'm not old enough to go to church, so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to
god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.