The Answers to Short Questions From Our Readers - Plain Truth Staff - January 1969

Plain Truth Staff

Question: "Isn't this a contradiction: God commands people to fear Him, yet I John 4:16, 18 says, God is love, and perfect love casts out fear?" Answer: There are two kinds of fear, one of which is a necessary part of perfect love! Most people today are enslaved by harmful fears - chronic fears of danger and phobias of darkness, shadows, loneliness, blood, travel; fear of being unattractive to others; a morbid fear of death; etc.; ad infinitum. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library