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To: Cvengr
"Within the domain of uncontrollable feelings, the opposite of love is fear, not apathy."

I would respectfully disagree. One can love someone they fear. We are to love God and fear him. One cannot love and be indifferent towards someone.

33 posted on 03/06/2011 4:01:36 AM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity

Let’s make this a bit more simple.

If one can love something and also fear it, they can also love it and be apathetic about it.

An attraction towards something compared to an attraction away from something. Two opposite directions of attraction.

The opposite direction of attraction is not a void of attraction, but a revulsion.

The opposite charge of a positive ion is not a neutrally charged ion, but a negatively charged ion.

We might be attracted to certain qualities attributed to a person, while we fear other qualities also attributed to the same person, but they are different qualities being addressed attributed to the same person.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom uses the word ‘fear’ in the sense of moral reverence, not repulsion or dread or terror. It is consistent with the love for God or perhaps better expressed as ‘humility’.


58 posted on 03/06/2011 8:49:46 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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