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lareli:
Here's a scene from 'Apocalypto' about fear...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I8ibl4nPmRE

How many times in the bible does it say 'do not fear'? Is there a source I can use to find out how many times a word or phrase is used in the bible?

Kat:

Hi largeli, I thought that was a very good movie, perhaps giving a view into their lives at that time.

You can go to the Blue Letter Bible site https://www.blueletterbible.org/
Just type in the word or phrase in the search box that you would like to find and hit the search arrow, and you will get all the verses in which it occurs and you can also check in many different translations. At the top of the list you will see the number of times it is found.

                         "fear"
 occurs 400 times in 385 verses in the KJV.

lilitalienboi16:
Aye it was a good movie! I remember seeing it a few years ago.

lareli:
In scripture we read 'do not fear/ fear not'... It occurred to me that perhaps the bible never tells us not to be angry though. Actually we read 'in your anger do not sin' which gives room for anger to be present in us without sinning. But when it comes to fear we're not told to 'in your fear do not sin'.... We're, instead told to not fear, period.

We are told to 'fear God' which in psalms we understand that 'to fear God is to hate evil' so in that sense 'fear' is commanded but in the typical human emotion of 'fear' there's no allowance.. Maybe it's because when we're afraid it leads us to make emotional decisions of self preservation which could be opposed to our spiritual preservation?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

lilitalienboi16:

--- Quote from: largeli on January 27, 2016, 12:34:10 PM ---In scripture we read 'do not fear/ fear not'... It occurred to me that perhaps the bible never tells us not to be angry though. Actually we read 'in your anger do not sin' which gives room for anger to be present in us without sinning. But when it comes to fear we're not told to 'in your fear do not sin'.... We're, instead told to not fear, period.

We are told to 'fear God' which in psalms we understand that 'to fear God is to hate evil' so in that sense 'fear' is commanded but in the typical human emotion of 'fear' there's no allowance.. Maybe it's because when we're afraid it leads us to make emotional decisions of self preservation which could be opposed to our spiritual preservation?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

--- End quote ---

There may be many facets to 'not fear' but i've always seen it in the light that God loves us and is with us, working all things after the council of His own will, so what is there to dear exactly?

I think Paul sums it up nicely here.

Romans 8:26-39
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for to accord with what must be: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God bless,
Alex

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