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Why is God fearing a good thing?

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Why is God fearing a good thing?
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RE: Why is God fearing a good thing?
September 8, 2014 at 6:54 pm
(September 8, 2014 at 6:39 pm)Drich Wrote:
(September 8, 2014 at 12:04 pm)Bibliofagus Wrote: Actually the term is 'the sublime'. It's applied to the feeling of awe people feel when confronted with awesome natural stuff.

You get feelings of fear about people you respect?

Here's your mistake. God is not a person. God is God. More a kin to a force of nature, like lightning/electricity or fire.

Now do you respect lightning or fire? Can you also fear them? Or is it more correct to say that out of a fear for lightning and fire you came to respect them?

We don't worship them. We do know they exist, and can make them work for us. If you want to be a pantheist and say god is the world or the universe, go ahead. We're not talking about that kind of god, though. The biblical god is a person.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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Why is God fearing a good thing?

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Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Elskidor - September 5, 2014 at 1:06 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by downbeatplumb - September 5, 2014 at 1:10 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by CapnAwesome - September 5, 2014 at 1:24 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Chad32 - September 5, 2014 at 1:54 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Tonus - September 5, 2014 at 2:02 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Exian - September 5, 2014 at 2:12 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Anomalocaris - September 5, 2014 at 1:12 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Tobie - September 5, 2014 at 1:21 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by vorlon13 - September 5, 2014 at 1:23 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Drich - September 6, 2014 at 11:38 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by FifthElement - September 7, 2014 at 12:17 am
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Drich - September 7, 2014 at 10:04 am
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Tobie - September 8, 2014 at 6:44 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Drich - September 8, 2014 at 7:23 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Anomalocaris - September 7, 2014 at 12:22 am
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Zidneya - September 6, 2014 at 11:41 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by BlackMason - September 7, 2014 at 2:17 am
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Michael - September 7, 2014 at 3:29 am
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Anomalocaris - September 7, 2014 at 4:17 am
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by StealthySkeptic - September 8, 2014 at 12:02 pm
Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Bibliofagus - September 8, 2014 at 12:04 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Drich - September 8, 2014 at 6:39 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Chad32 - September 8, 2014 at 6:54 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by The Valkyrie - September 8, 2014 at 6:50 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Madness20 - September 8, 2014 at 7:33 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Drich - September 8, 2014 at 8:02 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Brakeman - September 8, 2014 at 8:15 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Ryantology - September 23, 2014 at 6:26 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by DaveTheRave - September 23, 2014 at 4:11 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Chad32 - September 23, 2014 at 5:39 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by The Grand Nudger - September 23, 2014 at 4:15 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by The Valkyrie - September 23, 2014 at 4:21 pm
RE: Why is God fearing a good thing? - by Crossless1 - September 23, 2014 at 4:32 pm

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