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Joe Serino's avatar

The fear of God seems counter intuitive. How can you love what you fear? Love and fear are ostensibly mutually exclusive. However, when it is seen in the light of our relationship to the Living God who breathed life into us and knows the beginning from the end and every hair on our heads, fear is seen as a metaphor for separation. Just as Adam and Eve were one in spirit with God and they were fully obedient to Him, they had access to Him and communed with Him. God being complete and Holy, allows His creation full free will. Again, it seems counter intuitive. Obey, all good. disobey, punishment. Again, it is literal and metaphysical. God being Holy, always seeks reconciliation to Himself and what He intended...balance, harmony, peace, love, etc. Our obedience is by following the "still small voice" that God gave each of us because we were created in the image of God, not physically but our spirit is from Him and so in its obedience is a reflection of Him. So, the "fear of God" is when we disobey we are left with a void that seeks to be filled. Unless were seek God's voice with "all your mind, heart and soul" so that when we are "still and know that I am God", He will hear us and we will hear Him. In that, we do not feed the carnal mind that seeks to fill the void of separation through drugs, sex and money. In spirit, those things take on a different meaning, when there is love from God and we no longer fear Him.

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R!CKYRANTS's avatar

I noticed this a long time ago, but I'm not Christian so maybe it's easier for me to see.

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