Fear of God is to encourage people not to make bad choices because they know there is a higher power that they can not negate and that the higher power can cause consequences they can not negate with their lower mortal power if they make bad choices
This is a prerequisite for understanding that without forgiveness one would be condemned
Using forgiveness as a license for wrongdoing results in ignoring the consequences of wrongdoing & inflicting them upon oneself Jude 1:4
You are not saying the world or the earth is a flat circle but time is a flat circle?
What does it even mean for time to have a shape?