Should God (OT) be feared?

[Segev Moran]

You would like it if God "could prevent it". Why can't we be empowered to serve the Divine teachings by preventing it ourselves. God didn't create us to be automatons but to serve Him with our heart and soul.

How can you accept such a statement?
We were created to serve???
We are a piece on a chess board?

I Keep hearing how lucky we are all for being created by God, yet it seems we have zero importance or meaning other than serving the one purpose God decided upon.
Is this you view of life?

 

[Thief]

So your literally fear god?

Haven't met Him yet
but it stands to reason.......face to Face with the Almighty?

bound to happen
the universe is large but He is said to be everywhere

 

[crowfeather]

All across the bible, God and his messengers use fear and threats to force Gods ways on unbelieving people.
It was even so that God threatened Moses himself that if people will follow God's words they will not be harmed as God harmed Egypt.

This clearly suggests that the people of that time, who invented God, were "forced" to use scare tactics in order to "win" peoples minds.

How is it that all modern religions today, fail and "neglect" this fact with the excuse that this was not what God intended or that it is all just a God's metaphor to make a point?

If one is prone to be fearful, one had better be plenty afraid of God. Fear is, itself, a sin.
However, if one has overcome one's proneness to fear, there is nothing about God to inspire fear.
One does not fear one's greatest ally, Source, and provider of one's very existence.

 

[Thief]

If one is prone to be fearful, one had better be plenty afraid of God. Fear is, itself, a sin.
However, if one has overcome one's proneness to fear, there is nothing about God to inspire fear.
One does not fear one's greatest ally, Source, and provider of one's very existence.

so the devil doesn't care?

 

[crowfeather]

The fearful one is the devil.

 

[Kelly of the Phoenix]

I don't fear the devil, the devil fears me.