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Hi, there. I agree with you but if you're not a Baptist you per the rules ought not post here, but as a fellow new comer, it is just a friendly advisement.

I really do not understand how antinomian doctrine is valid in the least; a cursory reading of I John, Peter's epistles, Jude and James destroy this haphazard doctrine.

Has any other swallowed up into hell 250 men? Who has opened the heavenly windows; whose breath stokes the inferno of Hell? Do by the name of a man men rise up in life, or is it not JAH (Psalm 68) who is the giver & taker of life?

We have not arms like God, neither are able to say to the potter who hath formed the clay, Why hast thou made me thus?

 

Your answer is fine, and I also note that you are a Baptist.

The word 'fear' is a awesome fear that stands in awe of who God is. We fear for our own actions in response to an awesome, powerful, all-knowing, and holy God.

 

Of a popular hymn, O LORD my God by Stuart Hine, has an interesting insight in her lyrics.

When Israel beheld his God he fell down, the righteous seed, and builded and anointed him an altar to Jehovah.
Of the serpentine seed like Cain was Esau or Edom who was overmuch blest; yet of the stones of a pillar forbidden in Moses' law did he anoint and build.
When Job saw God, he repented in dust & ashes.
When Nathaniel beheld the King of Israel, said he,

In the fifth of Luke, Peter rightly said,

As the psalmist said the man whom God chooses to draw to him is blessed. Who are they who say otherwise? It is said,

 

Actually she shows she is not only Baptist, but Methodist and Catholic. And her comments reflect more of the emergent church movement and not that of Evangelical Baptist. This is not a judgement, just an observation.

If she is not Baptist she should not be on this particular forum. The previous member has a point.

 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. In other words, to fear the Lord is a very wise thing to do. I don't believe this fear refers to dread, but it's talking about your heart being in a state of Revelation where you understand the greatness and terror of God in combination with God's love, and you respond to this with reverence and awe.

 

You are incorrect. She chose 'Baptist' as her denomination on her profile.

This is not the proper place moderatorial or administrative decisions. She labelled herself Baptist and even listed her local church. She is welcome to post here.

Now back to our discussion please.

 

Fear of our Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

MB

 

Deleted. It's not worth the effort.

 

The fear of the Lord is always treated as something positive in Scripture.
Acts 9:31. Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.'

 

If one is a Baptist-Methodist-Catholic there is a word for that: confused. The other indeed is emergent "a church is what it saith on the tin". If that is what this woman believes I have pity; but it would also mean the thread be moved possibly, and that is said in no whit of condemnation.

 

Why do the questions persist about this poster? Check her profile - she says she is a Baptist and a member of St Luke's Baptist Church. The question was a fair one and an excellent discussion starter.

 

Okay. It seemed valid to raise. Point taken.
As we said in the orchestra, low ready, up, play.

 

I hope we do a better job of welcoming our new members than to treat them with such suspicion.

 

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Check again, kiddo! I have never been Methodist, nor Catholic!

 

Hello, everyone. As a part of my daily reading I came across this little gem:

Surely his salvation is nigh to them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. ​

Psalm 85.9.​

It is very plausible that if a man has no fear of God could indicate a lack of salvation. The land who is inglourious to God, such as Israel was in Biblical times a backsliding like a heifer, and the crypto-Jew today, ref. Apocalypse 2.9, 3.9, Phillista, Sodoma, Edom, Tyre, & Sidion is filled with wrath, anger, indignation— and notably, no salvation. Consider the Nicolations who Jesus hated in Apocalypse against which stood the Ephesians.