If Love is Trust, would Fear (Distrust) be the evidence that Love is absent?If we do not love everyone (more)?

Question

...are we fearing everyone?

Answer 1

Fear would be the road block we need to overcome. Learning that love is trust, is the lesson of the 10th house, near the end of the journey. ; )

Answer 2

If Love expressed is a person, would He associate himself with Fear? eusebeios, the greek word for piety or godly living, has it's roots in a type of fear. if fear is a reverence and a trembling at the thought of offending someone you love, Love loves this kind of fear. If fear is a terror that is meant to hurt and decapacitate, then Hate loves this. how can hate love? the devil doesn't create, he uses what is already created and spoils it. nature testifies to this in cancers and the way that bodies and food rot. but if fear were a distrust, are we supposed to fear evil? or do we fear everyone because we don't trust them? I suppose I am afraid of people sometimes, or distrusting, and the latter does preceed the former much of the time. but we CAN distrust someone without fearing them. I don't trust the devil, but I ain't scared of that punk. Love is an action, not a word or theory or feeling. if you say I am your brother and I were, say, using a public computer at a library and I was homeless, it doesn't matter how much you say you love me and are going to pray for me, if you walked away and left me tired, cold, and hungry, you've demonstrated that you really don't love me. and after all, didn't Jesus say "whatever you do to the least of these my fellow men (GRK: ADELPHOS, check http://bible.crosswalk.com ), I tell you the truth you've done the same to me" how are you treating Jesus today? I think that's the question. because if we don't exercise a godly fear (how will my works toward these people be judged at the seat of Christ?), then we are breeding ungodly fear (" those rich folks never help, let's send terrorists over there so that they will be forced to help or die") if we don't go to them in the name of our master, they will come to us in the name of theirs.

Answer 3

Since this is in the Religion category, I'll give you a Biblical answer -- at least to part of your question. In I John 4 (it's short, read the whole thing) you'll find the verse where John says that perfect love casts out fear, and that the one who fears is not made perfect in love. We are also told in the same chapter that God is love. I can't say that fear is the only reason for -- or even result of -- love's absence. There can be lots of apparent reasons for not loving others, most of which do boil down to fear or apathy. True love (that is, God's) cures both.

Answer 4

Depends if you are referring to your relationship with God or your relationship with someone else. God's love for us is "pure". Unending. Faithful. Trustworthy. But - sometimes it's hard to trust God because of our "flesh" or human doubt. I don't believe that makes love absent in a relationship with God or with someone else it just means that your heart is battling with a bit of doubt for some reason or another and you have to realize what birthed the doubt to be able to "trust". I think as humans we all "FAIL". We all rob each other of trust and it keeps us fearful of being hurt again. - that's where forgiveness and wisdom step in. But I'm rambling. I guess my point is - love never fails. If love is TRULY there love is NEVER truly absent.

Love is :
Patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

Answer 5

distrust of love brings fear to love so therefore trust in love brings absence of love more to not love everyone we fear.