Fear

we must do not appeal to fear in proclaiming gospel (159:3.2,5)

we must accept challenges without complaint and to face difficulties and uncertainties without fear 48:6.35

Second Isaiah proclaimed: “Fear you not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God. ” 97:7.6

Fear not those who, although they may be able to kill the body, after that have no more power over us. 165:3.3

it is easy for us to become self-deceived and thereby fall into foolish fears, divers lusts, enslaving pleasures, malice, envy, and even vengeful hatred 143:2.5

fear persists in present-day races because we lack Adamic inheritance 76:4.6

seraphim cannot understand the legacy of animal fear that bulks so large in our mental life 113:2.5

In the Urantia Book

Religion origin

• Evolutionary religion is born of a simple and all-powerful fear, the fear which surges through the human mind when confronted with the unknown, the inexplicable, and the incomprehensible. 90:0.3
• “The fear of the Lord” is the beginning of wisdom 68:3.3 131:2.6 149:6.2-5
• our religion is becoming real because it is emerging from the slavery of fear and the bondage of superstition. 12:9.5
• Moral worth cannot be derived from mere repression—obeying the injunction “Thou shalt not”. Fear and shame are unworthy motivations for religious living. 140:4.7

The cure for fear

• When we stand before God with a clean heart, we become fearless of all creation. 131:1.8-9
• we must disown fear 131:3.2 165:5.5
• faith vanquishes fear 130:6.3 131:1.9 143:7.3
• thousands upon thousands of men and women of this century are anxious, restless, fearful, uncertain, and unsettled; as never before in the world’s history they need the consolation and stabilization of sound religion 99:4.6
• Jesus frequently delivered the victims of fear from their spirit of infirmity, from their depression of mind, and from their bondage of fear. 167:3.5
• evangels advice human teachers of truth and righteousness to proclaim that “the love of God casts out all fear” 48:6.8
• Fear, envy, and conceit can be prevented only by intimate contact with other minds. 160:2.7 184:4.6
• the worshipful practice of Jesus obliterated debilitating fear 160:1.12

Effect of fear

• Ignorance alone can never prevent survival; neither can confusional doubts nor fearful uncertainty. 110:3.5
• fear can induce mystic state 100:5.10
• fear can inhibit creative imagination 111:4.9
• Fear, and some remorse, led Cain to repent. 76:2.8
• Fear is man’s chief enslaver and pride his great weakness 142:0.2 157:2.2
• All physical poisons greatly retard the efforts of the Adjuster to exalt the material mind, while the mental poisons of fear, anger, envy, jealousy, suspicion, and intolerance likewise tremendously interfere with the spiritual progress of the evolving soul. 108:6.2 110:1.5
• weakens character, destroys happiness 140:5.6

Historically

• man’s tendencies to fear date from lemur ancestors 62:2.4
• Primates as their earlier ancentors, were greatly subject to fear 62:4.4
• the Caligastia's one hundred sought to substitute Creator fear for creature fear, or ghost worship 66:5.13
• The difficulty in combating magic arises from the fact that fear can kill. Primitive peoples so feared magic that it did actually kill, and such results were sufficient to substantiate this erroneous belief. 88:4.8 89:1.2
• feeling, not thinking, was the guiding and controlling influence in all evolutionary development. To the primitive mind there is little difference between fearing, shunning, honoring, and worshiping. 85:7.2
• Urantia civilization was literally forged out between the anvil of necessity and the hammers of fear. 66:5.13
• Fear has always been the basic religious stimulus. 86:0.2 90:3.10 92:1.4
• The ‘fear of the Lord’ has had different meanings in the successive ages, coming up from fear, through anguish and dread, to awe and reverence. Evolution of fear goes through awe, dread, dependence, and reverence, to the appreciative and affectionate regard of love. (149:6.3,6)
• Sooner or later the fear instinct fosters the establishment of these institutions of survival by means of taboo, convention, and religious sanction. 69:1.3
• Two other emotions which drove human beings together and held them together were vanity and fear, more particularly ghost fear. 68:2.4 | ghosts
• primitive religion drove men forward by fear 5:4.1
• early fear religion served a very valuable purpose in subduing the fiery tempers of the primitive creatures. 52:1.7

Nature of fear

• Common fear was physiological in origin: fear of physical pain, unsatisfied hunger, or some earthly calamity; but ghost fear was a new and sublime sort of terror. 68:3.1
• the same creative design which purposed evolution likewise provide those external restraints of time and space, hunger and fear, which effectively circumscribe the subspiritual choice range of such uncultured creatures. 118:8.5
• hate is shadow of fear 145:3.4
• Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul. 48:7.4

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• I made earth, man 97:7.6 — Is 45:12. *I have not created it in vain*: Is 45:18.
• I am the first and the last 97:7.6 — Is 41:4; Is 44:6; Is 48:12; Rev 1:8,11,17; Rev 2:8; Rev 21:6; Rev 22:13.
• Heavens may vanish 97:7.6 — Is 51:6. *Salvation to generations*: Is 51:8.
• Fear not, because I am wih you 97:7.6 — Is 41:10.
• No God beside me, a just God 97:7.6 — Is 45:21.
• Proclaim from housetops 165:3.3 — Lk 12:3.
• Whom to fear 165:3.3 — Jud 1:24.
• Fear not killers of body 165:3.3 — Mt 10:28; Lk 12:4-5; 1 P 3:14.
• Human heart is wicked 143:2.5 — Jer 17:9.
• Fear of God begins wisdom 68:3.3 — Job 28:28; Ps 111:10; Pr 1:7; Pr 9:10.
• Man little less than divine 131:2.6 — Ps 8:5. *God knows way of righteous*: Ps 1:6. *Fear of Lord is the beginning of wisdom*: Ps 111:10; Pr 1:7; Pr 9:10; Job 28:28. *Be you perfect*: Gn 17:1; 1 Ki 8:61; Lv 19:2; Dt 18:13; Mt 5:48; 2 Co 13:11; Jm 1:4; 1 P 1:16. *Pride goes before destruction*: Pr 16:18. *He who rules own spirit is mighty*: Pr 16:32. *When you return to your spiritual rest*: Is 30:15. *Those who wait the Lord will renew their strength*: Is 40:31. *Rest from fear*: Is 14:3. *Fear not, I am with you*: Is 41:10.
• By fruits you shall know them 140:4.7 — Mt 7:16-20; Lk 6:43-44. *Fruit of the spirit*: Ga 5:22-23; Eph 5:9.
• Barren tree hewn down 140:4.7 — Mt 7:19.
• Goodness of God leads to 48:6.8 — Ro 2:4.
• Love of God casts out fear 48:6.8 — 1 Jn 4:18.
• 23rd Psalm 48:6.8 — Ps 23:1-6.
• Jesus and Father are one 184:4.6 — Jn 1:1; Jn 5:17-18; Jn 10:30,38; Jn 12:44-45; Jn 14:7-11,20; Jn 17:11,21-22.
• Becoming one with Jesus 184:4.6 — Jn 17:11,21-22.
• No Tribal Mark 76:2.8 — Gn 4:13-15.
• Tribe of Adam mark 76:2.8 — Gn 4:15.
• Beware the leaven of Pharisees 157:2.2 — Mt 16:6; Mk 8:15; Lk 12:1.
• Eyes see not, ears hear not 157:2.2 — Jer 5:21; Ezk 12:2; Mk 8:18.
• Kingdom of heaven in you 108:6.2 — Lk 17:21; Ro 8:9-11; 1 Co 3:16-17; 1 Co 6:19; 2 Co 6:16; 2 Ti 1:14; 1 Jn 4:12-15; Rev 21:3.
• Body is tabernacle 110:1.5 — Lk 17:21; Ro 8:9-11; 1 Co 3:16-17; 1 Co 6:19; 2 Co 6:16; 2 Ti 1:14; 1 Jn 4:12-15; Rev 21:3.
• Fear of violating taboos 89:1.2 — Lv 10:1-2.
• Lighted by the true light 52:1.7 — Job 2:8; Is 9:2; Is 49:6; Mt 4:16; Lk 1:79; Lk 2:32; Jn 1:4-9; Jn 8:12; Jn 9:5; Jn 12:35-36,46.

Where it appears

Fear is linked in 73 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• anger
• hatred
• revenge
• uncertainty

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