>For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

>>17431832
Translated for normal people
>god's a fucking creep

>>17431835
>t. vessel of wrath

You are under wrathful defense of a third party by the All-Loving God because you are by necessity a trespasser. Repent!

>>17431819
For the same reason a criminal fears the law. You should fear doing evil because you understand he exist and he despises evil things.

“I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence;
I possess knowledge and discretion.
To fear the Lord is to hate evil;
I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
Counsel and sound judgment are mine;

The same way people fear justice and its might. Fear is not a bad thing at all, a lack of fear can make you prideful and arrogant

>>17431819
Christianity operates on the presumption that you are guilty until proven innocent, which never actually happens.

>>17431819
I already told you why, but you don't give a fuck about knowing this. You just want to repeat the same bullshit over and over again. If you're interested, look into the archive.

I think this has to do with the holy trinity in a way…
Humans can easily mistake hell for heaven and get snared in the devils trap.
It is written, nobody gets through except through the son. So if you think you’re talking to God, maybe you are, but if you didn’t do the work, which is the cross, then you are in a bad place and you need to turn back before it’s too late and you have to go through the belly of the beast and hope you get spitter out before you die.

>>17431819
Demons gain power over you with fear

he also clouds judgment and deceives, is the master of lies, etc
(btw I'm talking about yhwh not satan)

>>17431819
Every child should fear his father, at least in some aspect. All Respect is downstream from Fear.

Machiavelli distilled this line of thinking into a more secular fashion

>>17431819
>why fear Him
Because I have literally experienced (a small fraction of) His power, and it is absolutely devastating

>>17432451
Have you ever experienced demonic attacks?
demons fear God now and always

>>17431819
>Doesn’t really make sense, right?
Wrong. It makes absolute sense. The breakers of law like rapists and murderers have every right to fear cops and justice system.

>>17433958
Yes, I have and no, they don't.