FEAR that comes to us involuntarily is neither right or wrong. Living in fear, maintaining an attitude of fearfulness, is wrong.

Bruce Charlton explains:

Fear is a sin, and indeed one of the very worst of sins – a sin that is capable of singlehandedly wrecking the whole of a human life.

I don’t mean fear as an emotion – that is just a matter of an evolutionary adaptation to threats… I mean existential fear: that is, fear as a mind-set, fear as a basic stance towards life.

For Christians, to live in a mind-set of fear is to deny the basics – to deny that God the creator is our loving Father. Fear is, indeed, a variant of despair – which is the assumption that God has placed us in a hope-less situation – which would mean that God did not love us or was not the creator of this world.

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