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Power of Prayer and Fear of God
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RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God
October 28, 2016 at 10:20 am
(October 11, 2016 at 6:54 am)mcolafson Wrote: But just a short while ago I read an article. Christians are admonished to pray for fear of God.
it is based on this bible quote.

Jer. 40 I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.

The thing is I never understood this fear of God thing.  I mean, why should I love a being I should be afraid of the entire time?  It sounds like being in an abusive relationship.  If you don't do X, Y, and Z exactly how he says to do it, he will punish you.  If you do A, B, and C even though he prohibits it, he will punish you.  It doesn't matter that doing Y might conflict with the prohibition against A, though.
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Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by mcolafson - October 11, 2016 at 6:54 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Arkilogue - October 11, 2016 at 1:10 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by TheMonster - October 14, 2016 at 6:19 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by racingboo - October 15, 2016 at 10:04 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by chimp3 - October 15, 2016 at 11:37 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by jebus - October 23, 2016 at 11:43 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Doubting Thomas - October 25, 2016 at 5:09 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Arkilogue - October 25, 2016 at 5:21 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by TheMonster - October 25, 2016 at 7:59 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by vorlon13 - October 25, 2016 at 11:11 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Fake Messiah - October 26, 2016 at 5:12 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by comet - October 26, 2016 at 5:44 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by robvalue - October 26, 2016 at 7:24 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Fake Messiah - October 28, 2016 at 5:49 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by comet - October 28, 2016 at 7:36 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Doubting Thomas - October 28, 2016 at 10:20 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by zebo-the-fat - October 28, 2016 at 10:35 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Doubting Thomas - October 28, 2016 at 1:41 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Arkilogue - October 28, 2016 at 2:31 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Arkilogue - October 28, 2016 at 2:31 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Fake Messiah - October 29, 2016 at 1:33 am
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by The Grand Nudger - October 28, 2016 at 4:49 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Eclectic - September 19, 2022 at 2:41 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by LadyForCamus - September 19, 2022 at 2:50 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Angrboda - September 19, 2022 at 8:01 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by LadyForCamus - September 19, 2022 at 8:07 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by arewethereyet - September 19, 2022 at 8:08 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Belacqua - September 19, 2022 at 6:19 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by LadyForCamus - September 19, 2022 at 8:11 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Eclectic - September 19, 2022 at 2:56 pm
RE: Power of Prayer and Fear of God - by Belacqua - September 19, 2022 at 6:21 pm
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