I have never quite understood this (139)
I think it is what it mean, to fear God. He can wipe out the planet in the blink of an eye. He can make disease and famine and millions of locusts or worse, leave us to our own devices.
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I agree. I don't believe in an angry God. I believe God is love.
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immanuelle: I am really not trying to be cheeky or disrespectful when I ask this, as I believe in cosmic truth or religion or God (however you want to label it....), but what does it mean by a God-fearing person. I always believed religion to be based on feel-good love, not fear. Why is that term used? Doesn't that give things a negative connotation? I don't think religion is supposed to make us feel fear.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
Fear is one of the most effective tools of religion - if I see god fearing in a profile I simply think 'numbskull'........... cant think for themself..
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immanuelle: I am really not trying to be cheeky or disrespectful when I ask this, as I believe in cosmic truth or religion or God (however you want to label it....), but what does it mean by a God-fearing person. I always believed religion to be based on feel-good love, not fear. Why is that term used? Doesn't that give things a negative connotation? I don't think religion is supposed to make us feel fear.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
when I was a kid they (catholic church people) used to try to put the fear of God into each and everyone of us in order to get us to conform ie tow the line. Their job was to depress individuality, surpress imagination, dampen our spirits, curtail our development and our human nature etc,. etc,. I have long since learnt that all that sh.. that was drilled into us was a whole lot of baloney and was the cause of a lot of problems......that will take generations to sort out... There is no need for fear there never was
I am a person who tries to do good as opposed to bad God fearing does not come into it, I know I was given free will to choose between the two.... my karma will sort me out ultimately...
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immanuelle: I am really not trying to be cheeky or disrespectful when I ask this, as I believe in cosmic truth or religion or God (however you want to label it....), but what does it mean by a God-fearing person. I always believed religion to be based on feel-good love, not fear. Why is that term used? Doesn't that give things a negative connotation? I don't think religion is supposed to make us feel fear.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
Got me...I've never feared God. I've always had a very deep respect and love for the Divine Intelligence that is within us all and created all...but never fear.
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eve1woman: when I was a kid they (catholic church people) used to try to put the fear of God into each and everyone of us in order to get us to conform ie tow the line. Their job was to depress individuality, surpress imagination, dampen our spirits, curtail our development and our human nature etc,. etc,. I have long since learnt that all that sh.. that was drilled into us was a whole lot of baloney and was the cause of a lot of problems......that will take generations to sort out... There is no need for fear there never was
I am a person who tries to do good as opposed to bad God fearing does not come into it, I know I was given free will to choose between the two.... my karma will sort me out ultimately...
I am a person who tries to do good as opposed to bad God fearing does not come into it, I know I was given free will to choose between the two.... my karma will sort me out ultimately...
oh this i just getting better n better - I should have been in bed hours ago but I aint going while theres such positivity coming through 
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trish123: hahahahaha now that was worth staying up a bit longer for Robbie
Shall i add i'd make them walk all the way from Rome to apologise to every family of their religion before i had them all shot?
After all they did used to charge people for their torture before they gave them the red hot poker, burned them alive and ripped out their tongues.
I have the catholic churches own book of its records, that you'll find hidden away in every dioses.
Just 10 first 10 pages of the preface will make you furious!
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RobbieM: Shall i add i'd make them walk all the way from Rome to apologise to every family of their religion before i had them all shot?
After all they did used to charge people for their torture before they gave them the red hot poker, burned them alive and ripped out their tongues.
I have the catholic churches own book of its records, that you'll find hidden away in every dioses.
Just 10 first 10 pages of the preface will make you furious!
After all they did used to charge people for their torture before they gave them the red hot poker, burned them alive and ripped out their tongues.
I have the catholic churches own book of its records, that you'll find hidden away in every dioses.
Just 10 first 10 pages of the preface will make you furious!
Do you mean the Malleus Maleficorum?
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trish123: oh this i just getting better n better - I should have been in bed hours ago but I aint going while theres such positivity coming through
it is a very sad story really and the damage done is enormous...what can be expected of an institution as old and as big as this when not one of its members were ever vetted...and their main purpose and desire was to take over the planet ie strenght power in numbers..(power and greed) and male dominated into the bargain...total destruction and mayhem... their karma is evident today ie the sh.. has hit the fan
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trish123: Do you mean the Malleus Maleficorum?
That was the book that they used to punish the witches - there was the root of fear if ever we are to see it........
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Do as you're told...or else. 
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RobbieM: Shall i add i'd make them walk all the way from Rome to apologise to every family of their religion before i had them all shot?
After all they did used to charge people for their torture before they gave them the red hot poker, burned them alive and ripped out their tongues.
I have the catholic churches own book of its records, that you'll find hidden away in every dioses.
Just 10 first 10 pages of the preface will make you furious!
After all they did used to charge people for their torture before they gave them the red hot poker, burned them alive and ripped out their tongues.
I have the catholic churches own book of its records, that you'll find hidden away in every dioses.
Just 10 first 10 pages of the preface will make you furious!
have a look at this one Robbie, this is the stuff the church doesnt want anybody to know and lots of it is actually in the catholic encyclopedia - they didnt ever suppose that common people would be able to read i guess..........
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Now remember here for a minute.....
There were MANY religions that were around for alot longer anounts of time than Islam and Christianity.
They'e all gone.
Sumerians, Egyptian Mythlogy, Greek Mythology, etc.
History is written by the victors. The Romans happen to have been the victors this time. Christianity is less than 2000 years old. People were singing hymns to Horus for over three thousand years. It's just matter of time.
BTW...Constantine, the "founder of the Roman CHurch" was a Mithraist. We should thank him for today's version of MITHRAISM. (Christianity)
There were MANY religions that were around for alot longer anounts of time than Islam and Christianity.
They'e all gone.
Sumerians, Egyptian Mythlogy, Greek Mythology, etc.
History is written by the victors. The Romans happen to have been the victors this time. Christianity is less than 2000 years old. People were singing hymns to Horus for over three thousand years. It's just matter of time.
BTW...Constantine, the "founder of the Roman CHurch" was a Mithraist. We should thank him for today's version of MITHRAISM. (Christianity)
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trish123: Do you mean the Malleus Maleficorum?
Erm no!!
Russel hope robbins "encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology"
It's the consolidated records of all the cases recorded and hidden down in the catacombes.
Russel Hope Robbins is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Literature.
Needless to say they wanted it to be well written up as it was handed out to the church as alost a second bible, so the priests had something reliable to look at historically and wel, if you read the book you'll notice some entities will come back at periods , like say every 240 years to create havoc.
All these are recorded in detail.
It makes you think about the church in an altogether way.
Torturing and robbing the populace by day, drawn into some sort of time delayed war on occasion.
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oh there so much stuff that has been kept from our eyes - eduaction for all will eventually dispell the fears but we must overcome thie fear to speak out first and foremost - people continually put me down for speaking out against these fears - we mustnt allow them to ever get the better of us.......... I wont of me, thats for sure.....
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RobbieM: Erm no!!
Russel hope robbins "encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology"
It's the consolidated records of all the cases recorded and hidden down in the catacombes.Russel Hope Robbins is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Literature.
Needless to say they wanted it to be well written up as it was handed out to the church as alost a second bible, so the priests had something reliable to look at historically and wel, if you read the book you'll notice some entities will come back at periods , like say every 240 years to create havoc.
All these are recorded in detail.
It makes you think about the church in an altogether way.
Torturing and robbing the populace by day, drawn into some sort of time delayed war on occasion.
Russel hope robbins "encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology"
It's the consolidated records of all the cases recorded and hidden down in the catacombes.Russel Hope Robbins is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Literature.
Needless to say they wanted it to be well written up as it was handed out to the church as alost a second bible, so the priests had something reliable to look at historically and wel, if you read the book you'll notice some entities will come back at periods , like say every 240 years to create havoc.
All these are recorded in detail.
It makes you think about the church in an altogether way.
Torturing and robbing the populace by day, drawn into some sort of time delayed war on occasion.
No Robbie 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, and was first published in Germany in 1487
it was denied by the church in Rome within a very short time but nonetheless, was the book that condemned thousands to death in the middle ages........
this is good too
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---Death is inevitable - never fear to live
We mere humans that still require lubrication to survive dare to even word an understanding of a creator and call this "God"
Being equates to why if when how which then leads to more questions
We mere humans that still require lubrication to survive dare to even word an understanding of a creator and call this "God"
Being equates to why if when how which then leads to more questions
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immanuelle: I am really not trying to be cheeky or disrespectful when I ask this, as I believe in cosmic truth or religion or God (however you want to label it....), but what does it mean by a God-fearing person. I always believed religion to be based on feel-good love, not fear. Why is that term used? Doesn't that give things a negative connotation? I don't think religion is supposed to make us feel fear.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
Most people have fear of the unknown. Therefore that which they dont know or havent experienced they will fear. That which they do know or have experienced they will not fear. In saying that for me, knowledge without experience is not real knowledge.
Perhaps then they dont...really.. know or rather havent experienced god or whatever one wishes to call it?
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immanuelle: I am really not trying to be cheeky or disrespectful when I ask this, as I believe in cosmic truth or religion or God (however you want to label it....), but what does it mean by a God-fearing person. I always believed religion to be based on feel-good love, not fear. Why is that term used? Doesn't that give things a negative connotation? I don't think religion is supposed to make us feel fear.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.
I found at lest one answer to your question:
God-fearing
A God-fearing person is religious and behaves according to the moral rules of their religion. adj usu ADJ n
They brought up their children to be God-fearing Christians.
English Collins Dictionary - English Definition & Thesaurus Search Collins
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I see that term a lot in people's profiles and it scares me a bit.
Apologies if this is a stupid question, but it is 3:30 in the morning in The Netherlands and my head is probably not on very straight right now.