“Yet furthermore, my son, beyond these, be warned; of the making of many books is no end; and much study is a weariness to the flesh.” (Ecclesiastes 12:12)
I stopped reading commentaries on the Bible to discover the truth and started focusing solely on reading it for myself. If the Bible is the inspired word of God, I was impressed that it defines its Author as "love"...
"God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him...There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love." (1 John 4:16-19)
The Bible says Jesus is the Son of God. He did not "fear" punishment because the love of God was in Him and continually cast out any fear he might have if he was just a man. You and I do not yet abide in love - so we fear God and other things from time to time. But the things we fear in this world will pass...
"The world is passing away, and also its desire; but the one who does the will of God lives forever." (1 John 2:17)
The "one" who does the will of God is Jesus, and in His role as a man, He is the only human who has risen and currently "lives forever". Yet all humanity is destined to become like Him when they are "made alive" after death, for God so loved the world that He sent His Son to save the world from condemnation.
"For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him." (John 3:17)
"For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for US ALL, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" (Romans 8:29-32)
"But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ ALL will be made alive." (1 Corinthians 15:20-22)
Jesus, the Son of God, experienced all that we go through as humans. And, when humans tortured and killed him, arguably the worst sin ever committed, he said this while hanging on the cross...
"Now Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they are not aware what they are doing." (Luke 23:34)
Religion separates humanity into those who go to heaven and those who go to hell - and gives a detailed vision of the hell they fear hoping to scare people into a free will decision to be saved and join their churches. Yet, the LOVE found in the inspired Word of God "casts out fear", replacing it with assurance that God will indeed save humanity out of death, change them into the image of His Son, and give them eternal life - because God is love.