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Ever Loving!

Why do people say they are God fearing? You should never fear God but embrace him and accept him and he will guide you. The correct statement should be God Loving or God Embracing. God bless everyone!
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I would expect someone to with the name reverend to understand the meaning of the word, fear, in the original language and context it was written in…

To conduct yourself in the Fear of Adonai is not to tremble and shake and walk on eggshells.

It is to remember Him, consider Him in everything you do. To remember He is always with us, in our presence. To conduct ourselves as though we are in the presence of a king, or a great leader.

To act in reverence because we are always in the presence of a great King, because of His Holy Spirit.

We should also fear God because He is Holy, and we are not. He is strong and just to destroy us where we stand, but He is merciful.
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@SW-User I observe that in fact people do fear God. This irrespective of exactly what the original Hebrew word translated "fear" means exactly.

And the whole idea of a "great king" who is quite "just" to "destroy" us does little to endear "Him" to me.

Each to their own of course.

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@SW-User Well, someone’s entire perspective on God depends entirely on their opinion about the Law.

I’m not here to convince anyone of anything.
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@SW-User The "Law" is finally to be written on human hearts, not on tablets of stone. How that becomes so can be unique to each person.
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@SW-User You’re correct that it’s written on our hearts as promised in the Pentecost prophecy, but there is still only one Mosaic Law that must be obeyed.

That’s the law that determines the rest of your theology, based on whether or not you find it necessary to obey Mosaic Law.

That leads naturally into the rest of the Covenant/Gospel set in place by Masiach.
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@SW-User That it shallbe written on our hearts is the promise. How it comes to be is where conflict begins, with some claiming that their way is the One Way.