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Fear is nothing but slavery to God

Fear is nothing but slavery to God. So what i'm saying here is that when God created earth [i refuse to go into this pandomonia about god being real we all have our own belief] he would have known that men would evolve,so in order to keep us from destroying all primative life forms he gave us an emotion. Fear. The instinct to flee when a danger arives, to fight and to run it's all instinct but why? Who put it there? Why do we have it? What good does it give us?
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    There's a perfect explanation to fear in evolution. If animals didn't either fight or run during danger, that animal would (or theoretically DID) die, and become extinct. Only the animals that had the instinct to preserve their life with what they had--scurrying away or fighting--moved on to have offspring.

    Of course human fears, and our other emotions, can go deeper than that. The fear of losing a friend, of hurting someone's feelings, of looking foolish, etc. Mark Twain once said "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
    41%  Voted for by Weydon, Tawariell, NoeL-, lunarlunacy, Amphibolia.
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  • The denial of death
    To quote a brilliant thinker ...

    “The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.”

    Personally, I think this fear is the only "god" and it's perfectly self-contained and unavoidable; and when there is no universal truth to take, Man will do anything just to pacify His fears.
    25%  Voted for by Ns243cxcvi, BaritoneBass, lunarlunacy.
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  • Freedom
    Obedience and trust in God and His truth bring the ultimate freedom. Fear binds us and restricts us to lies from insecurities, these do not come from God they come to destroy the truth that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Fear stems from itself it is the ultimate lie.
    16%  Voted for by Applehead, NeferMaatNetjer.
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  • Fear is nothing but slavery to God
    When human being's or any other form of life is threatned by another of it's kind or it's own thoughts the first reaction is almost always prodictable. To run. But why? When it's darkness you can never run quite far enough and if we run before a predator then it will only give chase. So why have it? Well i think that we need it to keep us sain. To stop us being invinsable, of course we can work to remove some fears like heights or spiders but the ones weilded to the heart of humanity are what keep us from killing everyting. If we had no fear we would not imaigine, perhaps it would all change if we had no fear and life would become nothing but an expolsion in the Milkyway.
    Voted for by Tawariell.
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  • God is not the author or fear
    God loves. Love is the opposite of fear. Humans fear, because they do not understand God.
    Self-preservation is natural, and part of out animal instinct. to avoid danger, or to preserve oneself, is only natural. it is not fear that makes a mouse hide from a cat, it is good common sense! the cat is a threat to the mouse. God instills this as a way of protecting the mouse,and the species of mice, by weeding out those mice too stupid to heed good sense, by letting the cat get them.

    Fear, real fear, is irrational, and often misdirected towards things that are not a threat. Such as God.
    Voted for by NeferMaatNetjer.
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