Are some fears healthy?

Question

Do you have a healthy fear of pride, of pain, of doing something

dangerous/not worth the risk, etc.?

Is the fear (or respect) of God healthy?

If you are a Christian, what does fear of God mean to you

and what role does it have in your life?

Does it set you free (as healthy fears do) or

put you in bondage?

Since: the truth always sets free.

Is it true that God sets us free from wrong

mentalities as well as from death?

Answer 1

Of course, some fears are not only healthy, they are necessary to keep us alive, however, fearing a non-existent being is not only not healthy, it's delusional.

Answer 2

Yes... especially if you are a Christian... you need to be up to date with your tithes and offerings to the Church regardless of what the preachers tell you today!



CONTROL BY FEAR is deeply rooted in God’s “Plan of Salvation”… So if you think that you got saved GOOD FOR YOU!!! Make sure that you pay your FULL tithe and offering on time or God the Holy Ghost will zap you on the spot and the Church people will give you a quick Christian BURIAL without notifying anybody in your family. This is the Godly way of “doing” overdue Church account holders after Jesus Christ did away with the LAW of his Daddy God of the Old Testament days! In the Old Testament they were dealing with only one God, in the New we have 2 more identifiable personalities and you cannot “test” God the Holy Ghost! He is very touchy about money issues.

Act 5:9-11 (NIV) Peter said to her, “How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord?*  (*aka “Comforter”, aka “Helper” by not paying the FULL tithe and offering to the Church!) Look! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door* (*in a truly Christian burial nobody notifies the death event to any spouse or relative! Have you noticed how bloody cool is Saint Peter about tithing?!) and they will carry you out also.” At that moment SHE FELL DOWN AT HIS FEET AND DIED* (*Praise the LORD! Sweet Jesus! Saint Peter KNEW that she was going to be slaughtered on the spot by the Ghost of God! No intercession whatsoever! Most likely Saint Peter and God the Holy Ghost were conniving together to teach the Church a lesson on giving… so what the heck!!!). Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. GREAT FEAR SEIZED THE WHOLE CHURCH AND ALL WHO HEARD ABOUT THESE EVENTS.* (*yeah… it works all the time! Just have somebody slaughtered in the primitive Church and the rest will learn AND FEAR! It is the Bible way to teach any lesson! What if Ananias and Sapphira had children at home? Who cares? Too bad CNN was not there to report… Christianity would have been involved in a very big scandal! Not even the Mafia behaves like that!)

Answer 3

Recognizing your fears allows you to turn them into trusting God and love.

Not recognizing them is called denial.

Our only need is truth.

Answer 4

Yes, to your general question, but then perfect love casts out fear.  But I think that is the 'bad' fear, and the Fear of YHVH, and a healthy respect for danger, etc, will remain.