Not exact matches
Others may
fear that the Bible
falls apart for them if 1 Corinthians 14 or 1 Timothy 2 are
read alongside the stories
of Deborah, Huldah, and Junia (I'll just add that I'm not interested in debating this here, but encourage complementarians to
read NT Wright on this topic and to lodge complaints with him).
But whenever I
read of people encountering angels in the Bible, they always tremble with fright, and
fall flat on their face in
fear for their lives.
This is going on in a part
of the world you probably didn't even know existed before
reading this article, and would probably will never visit anyway, out
of fear that your boat might take a wrong turn and
fall off the edge
of the «flat» earth on the way over (I'm assuming that if you intend to fly over, you'll just end up spending the entire the entire time at your local airport staring in amazement at the moving sidewalk).
And at the end
of Esther 8:17, we
read that many
of the people
of the land became Jews, because
fear of the Jews
fell upon them.
I loved the funny and conversational writing style, but my
fear of becoming a mom was amplified after
reading that book... which was a partial motivator for me to write my own book addressing all the way women get better and more focused after babies (f - a-b) instead
of falling apart.