http://www.wellspringsg.org/blogs/gospelprism/2006/04/20/reflections-on-fear-from-psalm-31/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.wellspringsg.org/blogs/gospelprism/2006/04/20/reflections-on-fear-from-psalm-31/comment-page-1/#comment-39 admin Sat, 22 Apr 2006 06:12:40 +0000 http://www.samshua.com/blog/2006/04/20/reflections-on-fear-from-psalm-31/#comment-39 I wonder, I wonder. I need to really chew on that for a bit. We are limited in our scope of understanding fear, I would say, in the way in which God produces fear because our sin taints that view. Much in the same way we cannot truly be angry with the way in whcih God is angered since again it seems impossible to anger perfectly righteously since sin taints our anger as well. Hence the terrible consquences of total depravity, I would add is that it is total. I wonder, I wonder. I need to really chew on that for a bit. We are limited in our scope of understanding fear, I would say, in the way in which God produces fear because our sin taints that view. Much in the same way we cannot truly be angry with the way in whcih God is angered since again it seems impossible to anger perfectly righteously since sin taints our anger as well. Hence the terrible consquences of total depravity, I would add is that it is total.

]]> http://www.wellspringsg.org/blogs/gospelprism/2006/04/20/reflections-on-fear-from-psalm-31/comment-page-1/#comment-36 TimK Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:37:10 +0000 http://www.samshua.com/blog/2006/04/20/reflections-on-fear-from-psalm-31/#comment-36 I heard an astute Bible teacher explain the fear of the Lord. Fear meant, quite simply, fear. Not honor. Or respect. Or reverence. Fear = fear. This concept is essentially unknown by evanjellyfish. At best fear and wrath and punishment are relegated to the OT and the God in its pages. You hardly hear anyone referred to as "God-fearing" nowadays. I heard an astute Bible teacher explain the fear of the Lord. Fear meant, quite simply, fear. Not honor. Or respect. Or reverence. Fear = fear. This concept is essentially unknown by evanjellyfish. At best fear and wrath and punishment are relegated to the OT and the God in its pages. You hardly hear anyone referred to as “God-fearing” nowadays.

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