Love God Or Fear Him ??

@else34 (13515)
New Delhi, India
July 8, 2016 9:15am CST
I am confused.Can you help me,please? My mother says,'Love God.' The dictionary meaning of the term 'God-fearing' is 'an earnestly religious person.' I wonder how can one love someone one fears.How can you love God if you fear Him? Can love and fear co-exist?
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Jul 16
you ever feared your parent? but you love them too lol
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
9 Jul 16
@Jessicalynnt,Yes,I fear them,but only when I deliberately do something wrong,something immoral,something that I should not do.But yes,I love them too.
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Jul 16
@else34 same deal, but on a bigger scale
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Jekca
@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
9 Jul 16
@Marty1 all I had was a fear of getting caught, lol
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sofs
@sofssu (23660)
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12 Jul 16
The Bible says "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom" The fear here means reverence.. You love God enough to not do something that would hurt him who loves us. Fear is not being afraid of him.. but fear of doing wrong and hurting him.
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sofs
@sofssu (23660)
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12 Jul 16
@else34 I would look at Gandhi's words in this light.. A person becomes fearless because he believes in God to be with him at all times and provide for him in all his needs and save him from all works of the evil one.
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
12 Jul 16
@sofssu Right.That's exactly what Gandhi meant.
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
12 Jul 16
@sofssu,You are absolutely right.Gandhi had said,'A god-fearing person becomes absolutely fearless.' I think,he was right.It is very rightly said in the Bible that fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom.I fear my parents only when I do something wrong,something I should not do.
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Gudheart
@gudheart (12659)
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12 Jul 16
I believe love god but fear him when we do wrong.
vijay
@vijay_2016 (900)
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8 Jul 16
Do you love or fear your mother? The same relationship should be with God. Where there is love there is no fear.
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
9 Jul 16
@vijay_2016,Yes,I love her.And I fear her as well,but only when I deliberately commit something wrong.I remember I was beaten by my father when I had killed a sparrow with my catapult.
jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
11 Jul 16
@vijay_2016 You are absolutely right.What I call fear may be my guilty consciousness.
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vijay
@vijay_2016 (900)
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10 Jul 16
@else34 I don't think that is fear it is respect to our parent. And if there is fear it should be because of your inner feeling you did something wrong.
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Yogesh Sharma
@ModernDayWriter (3318)
• New Delhi, India
8 Jul 16
Love God, never perform a wrong task than why you need to afraid of him?
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
8 Jul 16
@ModernDayWinter,My mother too says so.She says fear of God prevents you from doing wrong.Thanks.
Yogesh Sharma
@ModernDayWriter (3318)
• New Delhi, India
8 Jul 16
@else34 your welcome
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lini b
@teenspirit (1596)
• Israel
8 Jul 16
sometimes the fear that appear at first in the end help you with the love that comes after...
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jaishankar
@else34 (13515)
• New Delhi, India
8 Jul 16
@lini b,That's exactly what my mother says.She says that I should fear God,and soon the fear would get transformed into love.Thanks for removing my confusion.
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