Question

In reading the scriptures, i find a great moral power. therein am i made aware of two great forces for good in human experience: the "fear" of god and the "grace" of god. without the fear of god, i should not stop at doing evil; the fear of god restrains from evil. without the grace of god, i should have no desire to approach positive goodness. the one is a deterrent from evil; the other an encouragement to good.

Answer 1

This is TRUE. However, some people stop doing bad out of the fear of MAN. This is a different fear. For example, if you were thinking about stealing something, but you decided not to because you felt you would get into trouble with police officers. But you had no thought about god, or what he thought. You had a FEAR OF MAN.

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