Loving and Fearing God - Page 2

Flint · 01-11-2012, 04:58 PM

That's a really good explanation.

infinite monkey · 01-11-2012, 05:22 PM

Very nicely said.

Trilby · 01-12-2012, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde

It may start with fear but it ends in love. Fear is not the end of this.

So God is like when you fall in love with your rapist!

Flint · 01-12-2012, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

So God is like when you fall in love with your rapist!

So when they say we have a God-shaped hole in our heart, they really mean we have a rapist-shaped hole in our arse?

Trilby · 01-12-2012, 07:55 AM

Or, if you are a Freudian, a penis-shaped hole!

In our vaginas!

Ergo - god = Sex.

I KNEW it!

TheMercenary · 01-12-2012, 08:38 AM

Take down.

Spexxvet · 01-12-2012, 08:45 AM

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JBKlyde · 01-12-2012, 11:12 AM

Quote:

So God is like when you fall in love with your rapist!

Do you respect your rapist..? i didn't think so..

I would wait until I fell in love to have sex if I were you, but what do I know??

Quit digging for the fools gold..

footfootfoot · 01-12-2012, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brianna

So God is like when you fall in love with your rapist!

It's more like the Stockholm Syndrome. More gradual.

JBKlyde · 01-12-2012, 12:51 PM

yea I defenently think I have that..

Sundae · 01-12-2012, 12:55 PM

Today I was told that Jebus and his angels made the snow.
Said child is longing for it.

As am I.
The difference is, I don't see the lack of it as divine neglect.

JBKlyde · 01-12-2012, 01:15 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6MY1-am9E

TheMercenary · 01-12-2012, 08:37 PM

Jebusus for the take down!

Man for the archbar!

What a match!

it · 01-13-2012, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

I think in this context the words 'fear' and 'love' have slightly different connotations. They're drawing on older meanings, in which the two sit together more comfortably.

well in the hebrew bible the word isn't "fear" its "yare", which sort of means "to awe"... so you'd be right.

but i am not sure if this kind of semantical differences are releavent for people who grow up on the english spoken version of their religion. if all your childhood you hear "to fear god" and you know that word 'fear' by how it is used today, wouldn't the way you think about it (and thus what you believe) be built around that?

Clodfobble · 01-13-2012, 05:04 PM

In my experience, people who grow up on the English spoken version are generally only presented with the verb to "love" God. If anything, it is more often "others" who should fear God, never the believer, which is an unhelpful viewpoint to be sure, but very different from fearing your own God.

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TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Jebusus for the take down! Man for the archbar! What a match! __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

01-11-2012, 05:22 PM	#17
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Very nicely said.

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JBKlyde Banned Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Encrypted Into an AmpitheaterWall Posts: 1,722	yea I defenently think I have that..

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Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Today I was told that Jebus and his angels made the snow. Said child is longing for it. As am I. The difference is, I don't see the lack of it as divine neglect.

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JBKlyde Banned Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Encrypted Into an AmpitheaterWall Posts: 1,722	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An6MY1-am9E

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