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+Authenticity and Fear of God
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+ 
+:date: 2022-09-03T11:12:14
+:status: draft
+:category: faith
+:tags: tags
+
+
+.. Bázeň před Hospodinem
+   - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_God
+   - https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6045-fear-of-god
+   - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_responsibility
+   - The Hebrew words יִרְאַ֣ת (yir’aṯ, H3374) and פחד (p̄aḥaḏ, H6343)
+     are most commonly used to describe fear of God/El/Yahweh
+   - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00035z4 whole development
+     lead to existentialism and to the dead end (I believe),
+     because they were missing that love and “fear of sin” from
+     Saint Augustine (it was quoted as the early expression of
+     authenticity). Heidegger was Nazi and Sartre 50ies
+     French pro-Communist Marxist.
+     Without the fear of God, authenticity leads to moral disaster.
+   - Relationship between Authenticity/existentialism and the
+     third level of the spiritual development by M. Scott Peck.
+     Existentialism is great in destruction of the shallow blind
+     rule following (“I haven’t lived yet, I was lived.”), but it
+     never achieved the mystical synthesis.
+
+Saint Augustin writes in his letter to Anastasius [#]_ this:
+ 
+    He, then, is an enemy to righteousness who refrains from sin
+    only through fear of punishment; but he will become the friend of
+    righteousness if through love of it he sin not, for then he will
+    be really afraid to sin. For the man who only fears the flames of
+    hell is afraid not of sinning, but of being burned; but the man
+    who hates sin as much as he hates hell is afraid to sin. This is
+    the “fear of the Lord,” which “is pure, enduring for ever.” [#]_
+    For the fear of punishment has torment, and is not in love;
+    and love, when it is perfect, casts it out. [#]_
+
+This paragraph can be start to multi-volume deep inquiry into
+nature of our relation with God, oneself, universe, but I would
+limit myself to just one part of it. The author here equates love
+and the Fear of God. That sounds seriously strange. What is even
+more strange, that what one would consider the conventional
+interpretation of the term “Fear of God”, that is the fear of
+God’s punishing us for our sins, is qualified as a sign of
+enemies of righteousness. It doesn’t make sense whatsoever!
+What’s going on?
+
+.. strict definition of the Fear of God
+
+.. [#] https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf101.vii.1.CXLV.html#vii.1.CXLV-p20
+
+.. [#] Ps. xix. 9.
+
+.. [#] 1 John iv. 18.