Posted on June 19, 2010 at 04:53 AM (UTC)
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So...Im a teenager who was raised to be Christian, but in middle school I converted to Atheism. I felt fine about it. You know, not having to worry about anything, I even got over my ex boyfriend whom I reallly liked for 3 yrs. and found a new guy! (who..didn't work out, lol) But then..I slowly converted to being an Agnostic-believing in God but not the Bible. Again, I felt alright. &then my extremeeellyyy religious aunt started taking me to Church &stuff..and telling me all about Heaven and Hell &I became a Christian..but the more I think about it..the more I realized I only became religious through fear of God punishing me! (&getting my prayers answered) &I'm still sooooooooo frightened of that man. I'm in fear EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE now. I have OCD, now. Always thinking he's going to do something horrible to me to test me &I'm only human! You can only push us so far before we completely lose hope! Especially me.. Because I'm so ignorant and naive. On the other hand, I lovelovelovee my Jesus(: Lol. Because of what he's done for us and I can just imagine him..healing people...So, why can't I do the same with his Father? I don't like being scared of the higher power who gave me life..But I am. &I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it? He can damn us all. He can do whatever he wants if we don't praise him. We're nothing compared to the high powers... Dear God, you scare the life out of me. Please, please show me you're not going to harm me. ? =\
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8 responses to Why does God scare me so badly?
RE: Why does God scare me so badly?
Posted on June 21, 2010 at 02:27 AM (UTC) ( over 1 year ago )wrote the following:
Don't worry. God doesn't exist. Find your way back to atheism. Try reading 'god is not Great' by Hitchens.
RE: Why does God scare me so badly?
Posted on June 22, 2010 at 05:06 AM (UTC) ( over 1 year ago )wrote the following:
you sound so devout to me..i never understood how to be afraid of God. but in the bible it always says that you're supposed to fear the Lord for all the reasons you're saying. you just sound like a good christian to me...we're supposed to be afraid because we're not worthy of him...we have to prove that we love him and that we have faith in him and we have to show him we're good people who've led sinless lives...trying to the best of our ability..we're supposed to fear God because when judgment day comes...our lives will be looked at...and if we havent spent years trying to be all the good things he asks of us we're so screwed...
so i personally am jealous that you are so afraid of God because it just sounds to me like you are SUCH a good christian..and i'm faltering in my faith...
RE: Why does God scare me so badly?
Posted on July 23, 2010 at 08:03 PM (UTC) ( over 1 year ago )wrote the following:
We compare God to "father" and yet any father that acts as the God of the bible does would not be considered a good father. There's absolutely no unconditional love there, which is what a good parent would offer. If you don't live the way God wants you to, you're punished. Which is especially difficult, given the many contradictions in the bible.
The bible was written by men; men who wanted to control their women and their children. How best to control people? Instill fear in them - and what better fear is there than everlasting punishment?
RE: Why does God scare me so badly?
Posted on July 05, 2010 at 04:20 AM (UTC) ( over 1 year ago )wrote the following:
I want to encourage you:
I'm going to post John 3:16 from the Bible here and I want you to look for the key word in it: Here it is: John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
Do you see it? The key word is "love". God loves you! Check it out:
You, like everybody else on earth, have made mistakes. To use a religious word, you've sinned.
Your mistakes (sins) make it impossible for you to know God all by yourself. God is perfect and good in every respect, and sinful people can't even be in the presence of so much goodness. It doesn't matter if your mistake was a little one or a big ugly one—it's enough to separate you from God.
GOD LOVES YOU, despite your mistakes, and wants to have a relationship with you. God came up with a solution to this sin problem—he sent his son Jesus to suffer the penalty that your mistakes deserve. Jesus took your mistakes upon himself so that you can be perfect in God's eyes. After committing this act of sacrifice, Jesus was raised from the dead and acts as a go-between for you and God.
By simply believing in this—your sin, God's love, and Jesus' sacrifice—you can enter a relationship with God. That means that your mistakes are washed away and you're invited to live a new, transformed life—a life that's based on something more meaningful than money or power or keeping up with the Joneses.
If you want to know how you can have peace with God check out the 4 "steps to peace with God" at
http://www.fishthe.net/steps/steps1.htm
or check out:
http://www.gospel.com/discover
I hope this helps and I hope that you'll find that God Loves you and, in Jesus, you don't need to be afraid. God Bless You!
RE: Why does God scare me so badly?
Posted on July 06, 2010 at 10:39 AM (UTC) ( over 1 year ago )wrote the following:
What a load of idiotic nonsense.
RE: Why does God scare me so badly?
Posted on August 23, 2010 at 09:28 PM (UTC) ( over 1 year ago )wrote the following:
I think that you would benefit from reading a book called "The Shack". It is not very biblical in it's approach to God but imho is what Jesus would have truly wanted people to find in the holy trinity. Anyway until we die no one can know what's in store.
RE: Why does God scare me so badly?
Posted on August 28, 2010 at 08:00 AM (UTC) ( over 1 year ago )wrote the following:
You shouldn't fear God in that way. I have OCD and have similar fears as you do from what i've read. Something has happened in our lives, or maybe a lot of somethings, that make us untrusting. Admittedly it's very hard, but to truly trust in God is so amazing. God loves us so much, he loves you so much. SO, SO, SO, much. Trust in that what ever may happen that it's all a part of His plan. Everything you go through, He knows you will perservere through and through perserverence you will build a godly character. I pray all the time for God to not let my mother die, I beg him to never let me get raped, I cringe at the thought of becoming disfigured and unwanted and as a reflex almost pray and ask of Him to not let any of that happen, ever! This all just makes your OCD worse and increases your anxiety and stress and eventually furthers you from God, our Father. I really hope that you find out how much he so loves and understands you! Yes, God is intimidating, the bible tells us that he knows all, can see all, do everything and anything, is almighty. Pray for people in your life who can show you how to trust God and love him to the fullest. He does so much for you, he knows your sins, he knows your flaws but he loves you just as much as any saint or nun or pastor. You are His child, He hurts when you hurt, He rejoices when you smile, He feels what you feel. Why is it that we're so scared of being so greatly loved? I hope this helped and I hope that God will send people who will help you through everything.
RE: Why does God scare me so badly?
Posted on November 29, 2010 at 07:18 AM (UTC) ( about 1 year ago )wrote the following:
Hi, I dont know if I should be writting this, I stumbled upon your rant while looking up "you dont scare me" in google... lol and I read your little rant and kinda felt bad... Let me be one of the first to tell ya, the internet is NOT the place to go searching for spiritural answers. There are so many other opinions out there, including mine, and its up to you to find the right answers. Dont be swayed by other peoples thoughts on how god dosnt exist. Im not gonna tell ya to believe what I have to say, but since your asking, I will give you my opinion and what you do with it is up to you.
I am a christian too and god dosnt scare me one bit. I love him and am thankful for all he has given to me. So its a little different for me. Im assuming you have a bible, so I want to recommend a few scriptures to you:
James 1:30 - When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone
1 John 5:19 -We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
2 Peter 3:9 - The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Acts 24:15 -and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked
Sorry I dont want to be all preachy with you but these scriptures always make me remember the lengths that god goes for us. Yo may not see it but when it comes down to it all god really wants is for us to love him back. When you think about it, the times in the bible god released his anger was in moments when the people completely turned their back on him. Just look at all the israelites after he took them out of egypt, they constantly turned there back on him... All the commandments god gives us are for our own benefit. You may not like it but its true. Ya sure I'd rather go get hammered and sleep with whoever with out consequence.. but thats just it.. theres almost always a consequence.
Isaiah 48:17,18 - This is what Jehovah has said, your Repurchaser, the Holy One of Israel: “I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit yourself, the One causing you to tread in the way in which you should walk.If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
I have been a christian for a few years now. Im a mother of two, twenty three years old, and I can really tell ya, for the first time I feel a happiness about life I never felt before. And I cant tell ya what to do or how to feel but this rant just made me think maybe theres someone out there who just needs the little bit of encouragement that I did.
Anyway, good luck to you, I hope you find what your looking for
PS any haters who want to bash all the stuff I had to say, save your breath, this was a stumbled apon blog that I just felt a need to respond to. If you have differnt opinions, good for you, feel free to share them, just like I did. But I wont ever come back to this blog to see what was said.. like I said, the interenet is No place for spiritual matters. I dont need to feel down on myself, angry that people just dont get it or any of that crap...
ttfn :)