{"id":186,"date":"2012-02-24T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/24\/to-fear-death-vs-fear-dying\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T15:26:00","slug":"to-fear-death-vs-fear-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/24\/to-fear-death-vs-fear-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"To Fear Death vs Fear Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"
I have posted this to both of my blogs this time.<\/span><\/p>\n
As a Christian, I have the faith in God, that there is a promise of life not death upon the physical death.  <\/span>This is a belief I find h<\/span>ope and comfort in.  The idea of death is not anxious creating but freeing, as a Christian. <\/span>This relief extends not only to my own loss but to the loss of people around me.  Loss of someone you know can create a hole inyour existence.  A familiarity of presence is lost when someone dies. However, the trust in the promise that death has been defeated is greater.<\/span><\/div>\n

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<\/a>I hear people talk about death anxiety but this is not what I feel.  It is not the death but the process of dying that can cause anxiety for me.  There are several ways that I absolutely do NOT want to die, given a choice.  For me, fire, beheading and drowning are my top three.  However, anyone of those three while dying for my beliefs as a Christian, I can take some comfort in.  Knowing that I would die for being a Christian is an honorable way to go, but the impact on those left can be extreme.<\/span><\/div>\n

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So what if I amwrong?  What if my beliefs and faith is flawed?  What then?  Do I need to fear and become anxious overdeath?  What is it is about death that some fear?  Prior to becoming Christian, I did fear death and dying.  I did not want to die and loose out what I could live out in life.  To die before I could get the most done was an anxious feeling to have.  I will loose out of getting and doing of all the things I could get done.  For others to die, it was a great loss to see someone not have a chance to do more and be more and be with me and do for me and me for them.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Do I have doubts?  Sure, from time to time I doubt.  My doubts allow me to question my beliefs and my faith.  To prove why I do believe what I do and to strengthen my faith.  If I am wrong, I have not lost anything.  I have done as much as I can in the name of Christ, in my faith.  This in turns allows much to be done for all and thus I did not loose out at all.  If I am right, then I have no fear of death and receive life.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cDoubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n
\u2015 <\/span>Paul Tillich<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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