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Fear or a special feeling of reverence, reverence, and submission to a deity. For other uses, see Fear of God (disambiguation). Religious text on a metal plaque set into a stone block near the car park and lookout on Hawkesworth Road north of Baildon. Fear of God can refer to fear itself, but more often to a sense of reverence and submission to a deity. For example, people belonging to popular monotheistic religions may fear hell and divine judgment, or submit to the omnipotence of God. Christianity In the New Testament, this fear is described by the Greek word phobos (phobos, horror), with the exception of 1 Timothy 2:10, where Paul describes gunaixin epangellomenais theosebeian (gynaixin epangellomenais theosebeian), women who address those who confess the fear of God using the word theosebeia (theosebeia literally respecting God). This term may mean fear of Gods judgment. From a theological point of view, however, the honor of the Lord includes more than just fear. Robert B. Strimple says, There is a mix of awe, reverence, worship, honor, adoration, trust, gratitude, love, and, yes, fear. 1 In the Magnificat (Luke 1:50), Mary declares: His mercy is for ever and ever unto those who fear Him. In the parable of the unrighteous judge (Luke 18:1-8), Jesus describes the judge as one who ...feared not God, nor respected men. . In some translations of the Bible, such as the New International Version, the word fear is sometimes replaced by the word reverence. Citation needed According to Pope Francis, there is no fear of the Lord, which is the gift of the Holy Spirit. This does not mean fearing God, because we know that God is our Father, who always loves us and forgives us... This is not a slavish fear, but rather a joyful consciousness of the greatness of God and a grateful consciousness that He dwells only in Him. Our hearts will find true rest.2 fear is among the seven gifts of the sacred mind. In Proverbs 15:33, the fear of the Lord is used as the discipline or teaching of wisdom.3Jacques Forget explains in The Catholic Encyclopedia that this gift fills us with sovereign reverence for God and makes us most afraid of offending him. that the expression fear of standing before the Lord is often misinterpreted as slavish fear (fear of getting into trouble), when it should be understood as childish fear (fear of offending a loved one) 5. . The Lutheran theologian Rudolf Otto coined the term numinous to express the fear of God. Anglican lay theologian C.S. Lewis refers to the term in many of his writings, but specifically describes it in his book The Problem of Pain, noting that fear of the supernatural is not fear of a tiger or even a ghost. Fear of the supernatural, described by C.S. Lewis, there is rather a quivering fear, in which one feels awe and some belittling or a feeling of inability to cope with such a visitor and our admiration for him. It is the fear that comes from the love of the Lord. link needed Islam Taqwa is an Islamic term for the awareness and consciousness of God, truth, rational reality, piety, fear of God. 6 7 This is often found in the Quran. Al-Muttaqin (Arabic: almutaWqiyna Al-Muttaqin) refers to those who practice piety or, in the words of Ibn Abbas, believers who shun Allah and work in obedience to Him. Love and Forms of Reverence The first mention of the fear of God in the Hebrew Bible is in Genesis 22:12, where Abraham is praised for trusting God. In Isaiah 11:1-3, the prophet describes the shoot that will sprout from the stem of Jesse: And the Spirit of the Lord rests on it, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of God. ... He will rejoice in the knowledge and fear of the Lord, and the fear of the Lord will be upon him, as it will be. Proverbs 9:10.that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom9. The Hebrew words yirAat (yirat) and pHd (pahad) are most often used to describe the fear of GodElYahweh. citation needed Bahja ibn Paquda described two types of fear as the lower fear of punishment and the higher fear of the glory of divine admiration. Abraham ibn Daud distinguished between fear of harm (similar to fear of snakebites or the punishment of a king) and fear of greatness, which is analogous to reverence for an exalted person who will not harm us. Maimonides classified the fear of God as a positive imperative, a sense of human insignificance arising from the contemplation of Gods great and wonderful deeds and works. 10 11 Baháís In the Baháí Faith: The heart must be pure from all forms of selfishness and lust, for the weapon of the Unitarians and the Saints has been and is the fear of God. See also Appeal to the Fear of God. Further reading Kenny, Charles (1882). 2. On the holy fear of God. Half an hour with saints and servants of God. Burns and Oats. OReilly, Bernard (1897). The Testimony of Brother Giles, One of the First Disciples of St. Francis. of Assisi: From of the Holy Fear of God.. Beautiful Pearls of Catholic Truth. Henry Shar & Co. Reeves, Michael (2021), Rejoice and Tremble: The Surprising Good News on the Fear of the Lord, Wheaton, IL.: Crossway, ISBN 978-1-4335-6532-8 ^ Fear of the Lord. OPC.org. Retrieved January 12, 2015. ^ Harris, Elise. Pope: Fear of the Lord is troubling us to remind us of what is right. , Catholic News Agency, June 11, 2014. ^ The New Revised Standard Version Hebrew translates as instruction. ^ Forget it, Jacques. Holy Spirit. The Catholic Encyclopedia Volume 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 3 September 2016 ^ Mallon, John (April 2006). The Primacy of Jesus, the Primacy of Love. Vatican City. ISSN. ^ Takwa, Encyclopedia Islam (2012).Bibliography Islamic Ethics in A Companion to Ethics, Peter Singer.

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