Anyone whose religion is founded on fear?

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This is mainly addressed to those who suffer from Pure O with thoughts of damnation hellfire and judgement. How many of you understand that your faith is primarily founded on the fear of judgement or that it acts as a sort of talisman or personal shield against life's many perils.

To even buy that kind of thinking they probably need to read their own books a bit more critically, see the inconcistencies in a literal-documentary view of their texts, and do some homework to see what they even know about the surrounding cultures of those times and the influences that shaped the beliefs they hold. When you get modern Europeans reading books from Jewish, Egyptian, and Babylonian antiquity and thinking that reading them from a 20th/21st century European or American mindset gets the job done - they'll come up with some rather strange ideas.

About the only thing I'm really reasonably sure of in my own book is that an incarnation of likely the highest avatar the world has seen to date ended up starting a reform movement, dying on the cross, and sealed his work by staying around for 40 days. Beyond that the logistics of what the cross meant, aside from the cosmic cross and whatever Dionysian, Celtic, Egyptian, and other meanings might have shared the same source stream is hard to say - seems like everyone has a slightly different take on what 'salvation' meant.

Well, on the other hand, Napolean once said that if the poor did not ave religion, they will kill the rich. So in the sense of rule of law, Judeo values are better than nihilism .

loool post has been misinterpreted my fault entirely. I meant to ask how many people with ocd have found that their faith is informed by their illness rather than life experience personal choice etc

When I saw 'Pure O' I have to admit that I wasn't sure what it meant.

My suggestion is look at it like this - the one thing people can't deny is that there were two commandments held paramount and above all others in the New Testament: love the Lord your God with all of your heart, mind, and soul (ie. work on that love's progress continually) and love both your neighbor and yourself as the Lord has loved you. To obsess over technical details of who's going to hell and who isn't seems to cut directly against following the two most important rules, that and quite likely anyone who cares enough to be concerned probably has less to worry about with the 'don't's and more to worry about with the 'do's.

As for the Alien-UFO-Fallen Angels/Ascended Masters-Vatican-Masonic-New Age-Antichrist-World Economic Collapse-Illuminati-Black Awakening-Nazi Antarctica-Nephilim-Giant-DARPA super-soldier Tribulation This Year theories that seem to be hot these days - I don't think its terrible to educate yourself on them but more of the sake of listening, finding out who these people are and if they really have any clean line of contact with prophecy or trustworthy sources (and just plane-old researching their old shows to see if they've been right about anything), but I wouldn't worry about them too much. Just focus on loving the way Christ told you to love and let someone else worry about whether they'll be greeted tomorrow morning by an Atlantean nephilim cyclops fresh from out of the Native American burial mound-stargate using their neighbors arm as a toothpick or whether or not the red or blue dot on their mailbox means they're on a Luciferian NWO hit-list.

previous post covered it... yes, i've read about a lot of that stuff for the last 2 years.

all i can say is i seem to have discovered that the purpose for prophecy in this age.. is so that God can speak a message universally to a few who will accept it.. that's it. the rest of the "prophets" are discovering through experience that they aren't one.. yeah, that includes myself!

A prophecy that just about made me s**t my pants, a friend of mine said " i'm not getting anything from God to confirm",(or words to that effect)... complaining to God about it later i hear "what is it to you, it woke you up, didn't it?"

your milage may vary lol.
my mom once said to me "if they are going to Jesus because they are afraid of hell, He doesn't want them"
which isn't exactly true, that's not in the bible unless you read between the lines, but it seems to be my experience, at least in the sense that you aren't going to have much of a relationship. you might get saved.. won't go anywhere though unless you drop the fear... just do'nt let it get to your head.. because you have to test the spirits.. anything that speaks to you must be able to state the words "i confess Christ/Jesus came in the flesh" or it is not from the God of the Bible..... some learn this by trial and error, and that can take a while.