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Default Re: Love? God wants us to FEAR Him! - 12-23-2021, 11:05 PM

Thanks to our Brother in Christ, True Disciple, for all those terrific verses on fear.

For another perspective, let us look at 1 John 4:18


There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.


Now, the first thing some snarky unbeliever type will do with a verse like this is try to juxtapose it against all the other verses about fearing God and try to claim that the Bible has contradictions.

Let's nip that nonsense in the bud straight away. There are no contradictions in the Bible. It is the repository for all of God's Wisdom as well as a comprehensive set of instructions for those who choose to follow Him. God, being above our mortal understanding, doesn't always make things as simple as our simple minds would like, but that doesn't mean that He ever would contradict Himself.

God is Perfect, as is His love. As we are perfected in His love, we need not fear that Love. But remember, the Bible may have been revealed to us, His True Followers™, but it still applies to everybody. You don't have to believe it or like it to still be under its authority. I may not like the idea of breaking all my bones by falling off a five story building, but that doesn't excuse me from the penalty incurred by jumping off the building.

In a similar way, even deluded atheists are instructed to fear God. Not believing in the existence of God is no excuse. Now, if you love God as perfectly as He loves you, your fear may be cast out, but that's up to God who does all the casting out that we hear about in the Bible.

So, believers fear God as instructed and His perfect love that saves them casts out that fear. Everybody else just better fear Him. No contradiction and no exceptions for not believing because God told us all this and He knows better than any unbeliever whether He exists or not.


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