Are we to be more afraid of God than Satan?

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28)

Good News!!! God will destroy you! God will kill you! God is the one to be feared, not Satan. NO NO NO.

John 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Green, I thought you were a KJV and a KJV only person. Why then do you adopt the modern translations on this text? The KJV shows the truth! Is "him" capitalized" Nope. What does that tell you? It is not God that is to be feared. IT IS YOU. Yourself! Continue reading in Matthew 10.

Matthew 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Fear you not therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows.

FEAR YOU NOT!

Here is what EGW has to say, what do you think? All should be intelligent in regard to the agency by which the soul is destroyed. Good advice, do not agree? Continue reading: It is not because of any decree that God has sent out against man. He does not make man spiritually blind. God gives sufficient light and evidence to enable man to distinguish truth from error. But He does not force man to receive truth. He leaves him free to choose the good or the choose the evil. If man resists evidence that is sufficient to guide his judgment in the right direction, and chooses evil once, he will do this more readily the second time. The third time he will still more eagerly withdraw himself from God and choose to stand on the side of Satan. And in this course he will continue until he is confirmed in evil, and believes the lie he has cherished as truth. His resistance has produced its harvest. By his example he leads others to follow the same course of resistance against God. {2SAT 183.4}

God destroys no man. All who are destroyed, destroy themselves.

Quiz: who are we to fear who will destroy both body and soul?

...And no man can be true to principle without exciting opposition. A Christianity that is spiritual will be opposed by the children of disobedience. But Jesus bade His disciples, "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul." Those who are true to God need not fear the power of men nor the enmity of Satan. In Christ their eternal life is secure. Their only fear should be lest they surrender the truth, and thus betray the trust with which God has honored them. {DA 356.1}

To sin, wherever found, "our God is a consuming fire." Hebrews 12:29. In all who submit to His power the Spirit of God will consume sin. But if men cling to sin, they become identified with it. Then the glory of God, which destroys sin, must destroy them.

There is no greater evidence that Satan is working than that those who profess to be sanctified to God's service persecute their fellow beings because they do not believe the same doctrine that they themselves believe. These will rush with fury against God's people, stating as true that which they know to be untrue. Thus they show that they are inspired by him who is an accuser of the brethren, and a murderer of the saints of God. But if God permits tyrants to do with us as the priests did with His Son, shall we give up our faith, and go back to perdition? It is not because God does not care for us that He permits these things to be; for He declares, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints" (Psalm 116:15). {TDG 371.2}

With Satan at their head to imbue them with his spirit, men may afflict God's people, they may cause pain to the body, they may take away their temporal life, but they cannot touch the life that is hid with Christ. We are not our own. Soul and body, we have been bought with the price paid on the cross of Calvary; and we are to remember that we are in the hands of Him who created us. Whatever Satan may inspire evil men to do, we are to rest in the assurance that we are under God's charge, and that by His Spirit He will strengthen us to endure. . . . {TDG 371.3}

The time is soon to come when the Lord will say, "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain" (Isaiah 26:20, 21). {TDG 371.4}

Those who love God need not be surprised if those who claim to be Christians are filled with hatred because they cannot force the consciences of God's people. Not long hence they will stand before the Judge of all the earth, to render an account for the pain they have caused to the bodies and souls of God's heritage.--Review and Herald, Dec. 28, 1897. {TDG 371.5}

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

It comes down to the question, is sin fatal? Obviously not, God has to kill the sinner. God is the problem! NO. Sin is fatal.

I don't understand why you choose to misrepresent me. You posted the exact-same "non-KJV" text that I posted (KJV). I never capitalized the "him" in the verse, as you implied. However, I could have. It would have been true. Look at what Mrs. White says in The Desire of Ages about those words of our dear Lord.

If we are not to fear either men or Satan, God is the only one left to whom this would apply.

I am solemnly impressed that the following applies to the relationship I have with you.

I am told not to be surprised when others misrepresent me or persecute me--even though they be fellow church members.

My soul and body are in His hands. He alone can create a soul, and He alone destroy it forever. Men destroy their own souls by the choices they make during their temporal life. But they cannot be successful in destroying themselves forever. God can raise them again for punishment, and He will.