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No worries I know that it’s easy to confuse gender on these forums.
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Suffering From Thanatophobia
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No worries I know that it’s easy to confuse gender on these forums.
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Sure i understand you are a dedicated Christian, when i suffered from death fears i was as well, but in our fearful self do we trust God? i know i never did, that is why is was so often overcome by my fear. This is the battle that we serve God with our whole heart. It is easy to have faith in God when we are feeling good but much harder when are running scared because things have gone all wrong.
Honest love for God casts our fears out because fears have to do with punishment. 1 John 4:18 teaches us. So if you still fear death God's love has not been made perfect yet in part of yourself and you need to let Christ's Spirit in in that part of your life.
For yes you can be a confessing Christian but not have entered the narrow gate in a part of yourself because of reasons only know to ourselves. Often because we did not realise that we needed to.
Hoping you will call upon Jesus in your fearful self and learn to trust His Spirit of Love instead of let fear dictate what you feel and think in this part of yourself.
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Bear in mind that the fear of death is a completely normal, human thing. It's nothing new, it's a common thread for all of mankind throughout history. Yes, even for Christians. Often for us, the fear isn't about the afterlife, but other aspects. The contemplation of mortality; of our time being limited, of the inescapability, the ticking clock. The concept of losing control, of being helpless, slipping away into unconsciousness, never to return (at least to our current bodies/lives). Of having no choice of when or how it happens, whether it might be accompanied by pain, loneliness, panic, the grief of people we love. These can be terrifying thoughts for us, and they aren't due to lack of faith. They're part of being flesh and blood humans.
But to obsess over death, is to allow fear to rob you of your life, of the here and now. It skews your perspective, and sucks away any chance of feeling joy for the time that you do have here on earth. It takes a lot of reworking of our thought processes, to overcome these anxieties. But it is possible!
But to obsess over death, is to allow fear to rob you of your life, of the here and now. It skews your perspective, and sucks away any chance of feeling joy for the time that you do have here on earth. It takes a lot of reworking of our thought processes, to overcome these anxieties. But it is possible!
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the world is certainly focused on the process; we can't escape the world's bad reports
can you increase your Bible time? focusing on the Healer's Words of life and peace to offset what the world is saying? what we focus on we magnify in our lives
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Do you not realise that you don't actually die? It's often referred to as "sleep" for that reason.
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I know that is Christian theology. My problem is I have doubts about this. I often have thoughts believing that after death we cease to exist. Those thoughts scare me.
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Can you see that those thoughts do not come from God but are designed by Satan to scare you?
Jesus said that those who believe in Him will be resurrected by Him on Him on The Last Day, so what is there to fear? But if in part we don't believe what Jesus says then we live in unbelief in that part of ourselves and need to confess this to Christ.
It was not until i began to confess my times of fear that i could repent of believing the lies that scared me and trust in the truth of Jesus which laid my fears to rest.
Hebrews 2:14-18
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
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If you cease to exist then there is nothing to worry about. You need to reject your thoughts. Anything that is contrary to God's word is false and should be regarded as the enemy. Usually, it is an evil spirit injecting a though into your mind, pretending to be you. Make God's word your authority. There is nothing higher and nothing surer.
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What do you mean? The threat of non existence is terrifying to me.
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Hebrews 2:
14Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
I have zero fear of death. Lord Jesus has set me free.
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There is no reason or logic to your fears. Hebrews 2:14 "Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death."
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That’s great but it’s not the case for me. I struggle nearly every minute.
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I am exactly as human, frail, fallible and weak as you are. Maybe more so. I had Atrial Fibrillation a year or so ago. I was about to have my heart restarted when God answered our prayers and my heart went back to normal. As I contemplated the possibility of my heart giving out completely, I was comforted by the thought that I would simply be stepping over a threshold to the next, infinitely better life. You need to face your fears and tell them where to go. Lord Jesus came to set captives free, not leave them to rot in prison. Fear is Satan's prison. Lord Jesus gives you the key and says, "Walk out of gaol". I'm no different from anyone else. All of God's people are entitled to freedom. Ask God to open your eyes to see what He has in store for you in the next life. The Truth will set you free.
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If you've ever been choked into unconsciousness while being utterly panicked and terrified that you were "going to die", you'd know that it is nothing like sleeping. I think that term is used as a placeholder because we don't have a more accurate one.
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