As logical as it seems to stay away from teachings that cause
such debilitating fear (so much so that the thirteen - year - old me created escape plans for the inevitable AntiChrist Army that would march down our street to shoot me after the rest of my family had successfully been raptured), it would be even less logical to believe that God would create a group of strange people created to be forever distanced from Jesus because we can't know Him in the right way.
Not exact matches
But John is not talking about
such «
fear»; he is speaking of the
debilitating fear that American idiom describes by the words «being scared.»
With populist nationalism on the rise, there is
fear among citizens that the operational aspects of democracy are being
debilitated by elements
such as «fake news,» corporate lobbyists and voter...
However, this article suggests that we need also to address the many barriers to deployability including «a lack of self - agency, a lack of knowledge or how to negotiate, and (we hypothesize) a struggle against
debilitating emotions
such as
fear, shame, guilt, or hopelessness.»