I should talk, but from this fundamental Christian's POV, it's death.
Yet, I've heard...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Father of Atomic Bomb and celebrity atheist
I don't know. What do you think?
I'm not positive, but my answer would be death while Christians fear God.
Atheists may look at death like this.
What the heck, we're all gonna die due to Adam's sin and Satan.
Still, the atheists believe...
"christians FEAR god"
so the only reason you don't kill, steal, lie and cheat is because you FEAR god?
actually you don't fear god, you fear what god will do to you if you don't tow the line....
which makes me ask......if you fear what god will do to you if you lie, cheat, kill and steal why do you lie, cheat, kill and steal?
perhaps you don't really fear god at all.....
I think you misunderstand the fear of God, since you have none, doll, and you may never understand our "fear" to be fearless for the Lord, simply because for whatever reason, you cannot place your trust in God's saving hands. This probably won't do any good, but if you'd like to reference the realm of believers, here are 25 scriptures, that will educate you somewhat on believing, although at first, it may seem all over the map, if you should become curious and seek to know God on an eyeball-to-eyeball closeness, it starts with a desire to understand the ways of God:
What Does the Bible Say About Belief In The Lord?
It's a lot of reading, probably it would only change one thing in your mind: that we who believe, it's written on our hearts; some of us have believed for 60 years or more, some of us believed prior to the "age of accountability" which is about 12 years, some of us here may be on our death beds before it makes sense, and btw, it's not too late to start believing then, as we know from a parable of Jesus about the workers who got paid the same amount whether they worked all day or came in at the last hour.
Apparently you do not understand the New Covenant, but that's okay, because reading the New Testament for understanding takes the better part of 5 months, if you read 3 chapters a night. (I'm guessing).
Another thing you may not know about Christians is that we have human emotions, foibles, and failings just like anyone else. There are incidents where we fail, same as nonchristians. The difference is, we know that our beliefs will save us, because whether we wind up in an executioner's chair, an overnighter in the drunk tank, or the subject of gossip started by somebody else's little white lie, our anger could get us into a pissing match with the liar or her best friend. We know that when we fail, it's time to take it to the Lord in prayer, and many of us do just that, because his answers, while we may not understand them, are always right and good, and God respects those who believe in him. He's not like a human friend who could turn on you. God loves us with no other conditions attached. And if his salvation appeals to a nonbeliever, all that is required is a simple prayer, "Dear God, please help me with my unbelief." And if you know he will be on your side forever, your prayer will receive a positive answer, always, whether you are a jack or a king. It's that simple.
Edit: Oh, and by the way, before the 70s, it is estimated that out of 100 who went to the electric chair, 16 of them did not commit the crime they were convicted of by a jury of their peers. This came to the attention of an Illinois Governor, who abolished the death penalty for the duration of his term when this information became known by researchers, who had access to the new proof that DNA tells in the case of a rape-murder. Back in days prior to the civil war, executions were often emotional releases for the masses and may have resulted in higher numbers of people dying for crimes they did not commit, except in the case of being caught red-handed. I read about a case in a detective magazine years ago of a serial murder-rapist who was caught who claimed he had killed over a hundred women, but only 35 of them were known to authorities, and he refused to talk about any more. The peculiar thing about the ones known to authorities after his partial confession is that other men were serving out sentences for the crimes the real killer committed, and I'm certain people have been served death sentences and were long gone by the time someone figured out the person executed was exonerated by other types of proof and confessions that came late in life of the real killer, who waited till just before his execution to fess up to the one he did someone else took a death penalty for.
I used to be a strong supporter of the death penalty. But as many lies as I've seen proffered out in politics, I'm thinking that finding due to dna didn't scratch the surface on killers who claimed to be witnesses and fingered someone they knew was in the area. These people are criminals who blame others when they know it was their dirty deed, and they're deflecting their sentence against an innocent person they could care less before. That's because sociopaths do not care for other people and have no respect for justice.
I no longer absolutely support the death penalty. Too many liars in this world.
