Desire, Fear, and Love?
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What if it's not about bribery and punishment so much as it is about justice and mercy?\n\nNo one deserves heaven.  We all deserve hell, because that is the wage of sin.  \n\nIf there were no hell or no death, would we really get how serious sin is?\n\nIt's like asking if we would be better citizens if there were no police officers or jail.\n\nIf you read the book of Judges, there is a theme to the book that is repeated in a couple of passages.  "There was no king in Israel, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes."  You can see the sorts of trouble they got themselves into and the decline of the nation.\n\nWithout law and some means of making law meaningful (reward and punishment) anything goes.  That might work for people who feel doing good is important for its own sake, but some people really need boundaries.  Heaven and hell provide that.\n\nI think there is a part of every human heart that longs for perfection.  That is the part of us that longs for heaven.  I don't serve God just to get a reward or just to avoid punishment.  I love Him, so I serve Him.  But heaven makes trials easier.  And hell is certainly not where I want to be.
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Wow! did you ever ask an interesting question.\n\nI have heard it said and I happen to agree that love and fear share a somewhat alternative relationship. In other words, it is either love, or fear. In order to experience love, you must cast your fear. I am going to answer as though you are speaking of love between a man and a women of course i.e., two people. When you are afraid to express your feelings for someone it is because you fear negative consequences like humiliation of heartbreak. This is fear and doubt. When you feel love for someone else, then you know what it feels like to need to tell that person. When it feels wrong not to tell the person how you feel, then you are feeling love. When you simply must tell how you feel because you feel fear if you don't, then you know you are experiencing true feelings of love.\n\nSimply put, it's either love, or fear.
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music...love...a hunger for truth...suffering?
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You mean LOVE and LUST.\n\nLOVE is spiritual, wonderful, unfailing, sincere, faitful, eternal.\nLUST is the fleash, promising, weak, carnal, wavering, uncertain.
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1.Reproduction we need to keep this planet cranking! \n2. Love\n3. lust\n4. act itself will come to soon for you and then bind you to some one! Dont be in a hurry!
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Yes.  Fear was an important part of their culture.  Human sacrifice doesn't happen in a love based culture.
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Love, adoration and respect. \n\nWho cares about monetary items? I want love. Plain and simple.
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Is there love in this equation or just lust for papers?
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One of the things that I have found to be common in so many people is fear. Fear is something that cripples people and keeps them from pursuing and reaching their dreams. This does not have to be so! I truly believe that a person does not have to have fear in their life. I can honestly say that I do not have any fear in my life. Now, I am not perfect by any means but fear is not something I have because I have dealt with it. \n\nThe main reason I do not have fear is because I have come to grips with the concepts surrounding fear. I have understood fear, primarily from two angles. The first angle is psychologically and the second angle is theologically. You see, I think that if we address the issues of life and the fears we experience from both a good understanding of psychology and theology, then I believe we can be free from fear. \n\nPsychology is the study of the mind and that is where most of our fears take place. Theology is the understanding of God and the world we live in as it relates to God and what takes place in this world. I know from personal experience, that as we settle just a few basic issues, we can be free from fear. A few weeks ago I spoke to a group on fear and here are a few of the insights I gave them on how they can get over their fears and get on with their lives. Look and see how each one of these principles fits either psychology or theology. \n\nDisciplining your thoughts. \nFear is an action of the mind. Fear is a use, or better said, misuse, of the imagination. In reality, when you fear something, you are simply choosing to imagine a future happening. You are fearful that your spouse will divorce you (future), or that the snake will bite you (future – it hasn't yet), or that you will lose your job (future – you still have it). So when we fear, we are simply letting our minds imagine a bad future. That is what fear is! Imagining a bad future. So what is the answer? \n\nWell, there are two things you can do. One would be to imagine a good future. The other would be to stop thinking about the future and just take one day at a time. If you are a fearful person, either one of these would be preferable to living in the prison you currently live in. The principle remains true in that we have to discipline our minds and choose not to think about a bad future. We can do that. We can choose our thoughts. It just takes discipline. \n\nAccepting the realities of life. \nMuch of what people fear are the realities of life. Some may think this cold, but people die, people lose jobs, people choose to do crazy things in relationships etc. There is nothing you can do about that. Period. For example, I know many fearful mothers who won't let their children play in the front yard because they are afraid the kids will get kidnapped. Now, what should they do? Do everything they can to make it safe and then let their kids play in the front yard! Some people are afraid they will go bankrupt or broke and worry endlessly about it. What should they do? Work hard, save, invest and live life. Could someone get kidnapped? Yes. Could you go bankrupt? Yes. These things happen and all you can do is work to make your life what it can be and accept that sometimes things happen, even tragic things. If they happen, you experience the pain and emotion then – there is no sense forcing yourself to experience it before it happens – IF it happens! This is a mental adjustment that we make that enables us to get over fear. \n\nGive yourself good information. \nMuch of what we fear is irrational and not based on good information. For example, someone afraid of snakes will scream when they see a gardener snake, even though the reality is that there is absolutely nothing that snake can do to them! Take the time to educate yourself about whatever it is you fear and see if that doesn't help you gain the mental edge you need. \n\nTaking control only of those things you can control. \nThere are things you can control and things
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Fear-gray\nhappieness-bright yellow\nanger-bright red\njealously-green (envy)
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I don't think there is. You can only be content. Once you get what you want, you add more to the list. You will always feel something is being neglected and at times unhappy. As for true love, I don't believe so. I think you have to build love.
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Ability to love and express love unconditionally
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There are two kinds of love.\n\nOne that makes you feel safe and secure, in which you may\n\nhave to give up some of who you are to obtain. And one in\n\nwhich you recognize yourself in the other. This kind of love\n\nyou need to give up nothing, but will recieve safety and\n\nsecurity because you're in your natural state. Which is love.
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honesty, loyalty, affection
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lust and love are 2 different things.
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Pain, fear, fear of pain.
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to taste or to challenge everything w/o fear...