Kinds of fear

Fear of death

The biggest fear that we have is the fear of losing life itself, this feeling is the motivation we use to continue our life, even when the life is difficult we feel it is precious and don't want to die. We are all aware that we will have to die one day, but please God we don't want it to be one minute sooner than it has to be! Maybe our great creator put that feeling (Fear of death) inside us to help in continue our life even when it seems too hard. (Thanks GOD).

It's amazing to see the humans working hard just to continue the life. What is the secret behind that big desire? Is it the pleasure in the life? What was the pleasure in early life of the humans? When the human started his life on Earth there wasn't any kind of pleasure in his life! There was only fear from every think. The God with his wisdom created the fear of death inside us to make us to continue our life, without that fear there'll be no reason for the human to continue his life with all of the suffering that he had in his early days on Earth.

fear of pain

The second fear is of pain, for some they would rather die than feel pain so for some it would be number one. The mechanisms of feeling pain are very complicated and I'm not a specialist, so I won't go into big details. I'll just explain some of my thoughts about the reasons for feel pain.

The main target for feeling pain is to keep us safe, so we don't risk ourselves in dangerous situations and it help us to avoid dangers in our life. For example, we know that when we touch fire or some thing hot we will feel pain. If we didn't feel that pain we could expose ourselves to things that would harm us, like we put our hands in very hot water! But we know burning is painful. Here we can see the logic very clearly. The logic and our past experience help us to predict and to avoid the dangers. We face many kinds of danger in our life and this causes us pain so we avoid it.

I think the first feelings the human feels after birth are: fear and pain (from thirst and hunger for example in childhood) and after that we start to experience fear. Maybe you know a lot about everything you feel is dangerous even if it does not cause any direct pain for you.

Think though, do you believe that human in his first days on earth was aware of every thing around him? Or did God send him angels to tell him how to avoid danger? God created pain as a way to protect us from harm by help us to avoid the danger according to this rule:
Every thing causes pain is dangerous for our life.
So pain is just another feeling helping us to keep ourselves safe (Thank GOD)

Fear of punishment

Punishment causes many kinds of harm and pain, punishment by parents or government, punishment of unlawful acts are very obvious. Fear pushed us to respect law, not only because it keeps us organized but also because we are afraid of punishment. Without fear we could have lawlessness like in Iraq after getting rid of Saddam.

These feelings are necessary for the safe continuation of our lives, individually and communally. So we choose to continue our lives and stay safe by helping ourselves, and also others in our community. We then would hope that others would help us if we needed it. Sharing our abilities and cooperating together in many different ways.

In another word, I like to continue my life and to stay safe by helping myself and helping the other humans in my community hoping that they will do the same for me. I can help the others with my ability hoping the others will help me in return, this cooperation have many ways and many systems in our life.

Feelings of pain make us stop and control our more negative feelings, like jealousy and greed. Obviously this is diverse from person to person, without fear then each one could become a monster. Can you imagine that humans can live without fear? This shows the greatness of our Gods wisdom.