-Removed-I believe death is the end. I don't believe I have anything to fear - or even consider - as a result of other people's beliefs about pleasant everlasting life versus unpleasant everlasting life, so to speak. I don't think that any courage or cowardice, on my part, is involved. I am only "in denial" about Christian doctrines in the same way as I am "in denial" about Hindu, Sikh, Islamic, Jewish or scientology's doctrines. If anyone wants to describe my perspective as "insight", that's fine by me.
-Removed-Off the top, Covid19 is a real threat, and killing more people at a greater rate than the flu on a percentage basis. I think it wise to have a healthy dose of "fear" and take necessary precautions.
There is a "clean" fear. Psalm 19:9. And there is a fear that "hath torment". 1 John 4:18.
Having said that I think your post is superficial and shallow, (not that your points are invalid) with regards to the biblical application of "supernatural peace" relative to the human condition in a lost and dying world.
Now, before you take exception to my assertion above and become unhinged, allow me to explain.
In the beginning there was only one sovereign will governing creation. Then a created being, a cherub, Lucifer by name, raised up his own will against God's will. Isaiah 13:13,14
The world of men is the interface between two opposing wills, albeit unequal wills; between heaven and the gates of hell as it were.
Prophetically speaking, the current human condition, with regards to the playing out of God's redemption of man here on earth, Satan's domain, will continue to spiral out of control until the end. Matthew 14, Mark 13, Luke 21.
The thing about "conspiracies" is, is that man is basically an unwitting fool caught between two worlds. On the one hand man is to one degree or another within the will of God based on his willingness to yield to the revealed will of God, as a believer. On the other hand man is a blind accomplice with the destructive will of restrained evil.
I believe "the world"(of mankind) has been in the "end times" for 2000 years, but is entering now to the conclusion of that time just prior to the resumption of the prophetic calendar relative to the "seventieth week of Daniel", with regards to Israel and the completion of God's plan of redemption.
Read Revelation chapter 5. "The book" with the seven seals is the "title deed" of creation.
There's nothing to fear, that is as long as one is walking in the kingdom of light as opposed to the kingdom of darkness.
@secondson saidI don't think your religious beliefs create or portray anything credible that anyone needs to "fear".
There's nothing to fear, that is as long as one is walking in the kingdom of light as opposed to the kingdom of darkness.
Furthermore, if you walk around telling yourself that you have "nothing to fear" vis a vis your own religious beliefs, then that seems pretty harmless to me. Go for it.
