Will you look fear in the face?

Answer 1

I'm not afraid of any person, however I'm scared stiff of lightning. I've faced my fear over and over to no avail. I still fear lightning. I can be in the midst of a lightning storm and fear will not take over, but at the same time it doesn't leave me.

Answer 2

I think that I should learn to be more afraid of fear than I am. I've been confronted by fear a couple of times which made me become afraid as I should be. I think facing life's obstacles I'll face earthbound fear in the face but when it comes to spiritual fear than I'd be too afraid, as I should be.

Answer 3

yes, perhaps i would with a shudder. facing the darkest fears of life is the only way to grow and move on. and as long as you don't face the fear, life is not worth living. it's like cowardice. ask me about the immense satisfaction and happiness of overcoming the haunting fear.

"Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once" Julius Caesar, W. Shakespeare.

Answer 4

NOT AT ALL who ve fear in the face they can't do anytthing on this earth bt diffenately we shd've fear in the face when we do any mistakes,commitment & promises to any one an we can't fullfill them

Answer 5

everyone has a fear in himself... it is in the soul... we should know how 2 face it... we can"t run away from fear but we can face it... lik we say, "eyes into eyes" not by running away or turning our back 2 fear...

Answer 6

F-face,E-everything,A-and,R-recover i try to follow this principle. you have to face the problem/tension to come out of it running out of it is not an solution and in the same way i try to face all my fears face to face to come out of it . that's the best way i know to live my life.....

Answer 7

Yes. The eyes will be wide open, face tensed, mouth open some times. But the eyes tell if you are frightened.

Answer 8

I'm not one to run so probably. It could be that fear is nothing more then a bluff, maybe fear is as affraid of me as I of it.

Answer 9

I fart in the face of fear!

Answer 10

A great President of these United States once said..." We have nothing to fear but fear it's self" JFK 1962
(Mat 10:28) And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul (Soul= Nefesh: Orginal Hebrew Toung see below artical): but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
(Rev 1:17) And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
Fear the devil but fear not a man for he is but an instrument of the devil as is a pawn in a game. But in this rejoice that he that is God made into flesh whom did so live among us gave us liberty from fear that our faith will be reinforced.

Ancient Israelite Concepts of Soul

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The Bible gives few clues to the ancient Israelite idea of the soul or spirit. Three words which over time developed the meaning of "soul" are present in Tanakh: Neshamah, Nefesh, and Ruah. Tracing the evolution of these terms gives us some idea of the ancient Israelites' beliefs regarding the soul.



In the Creation story, we read of God blowing a "breath of life" into the man of earth and dust (Genesis 2:7). The word used is a form of the Hebrew root indicating breath. Although this "neshamah" later becomes associated with the soul, the word here only describes the element that animates a body. This animating element is not, in early biblical tradition, separate from the body in life, nor does it possess any personality.



Similarly, ruah is the animating force from God. Most often used as "wind," ruahmay also be used as "breath." "God said, 'My breath [ruhi] will not govern man forever, since he is flesh…'" (Genesis 6:3). Here, we see the added element of transience: The ruah ends its association with the mortal body at death.



The word nefesh is often used to mean "person" or "living being". In the Torah, however, animals may also possess this life force--a "nefesh behemah." The term nefesh is particularly associated with blood, as in "the life [nefesh] of the flesh is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11).



Nefesh does reflect a personal dimension. It may be used in the sense of "self" (including "himself"). Nefesh is also associated with personal desire or attraction. One's nefesh may cleave to someone (as in the case of Shehem's yearning for Dinah, Jacob's daughter), or to evil (see Proverbs 21:10). In a later example of this usage, a person of considerable appetite is called "ba'al [possessor of] nefesh" (Proverbs 23:2). In all of these usages, the nefesh is connected to the body and its material wants.



In later books of the Bible, the soul (using all three terms) is mentioned apart from the body and as more than just an animating spirit. This subtle evolution of meaning reflects the growth of the idea of what we call the soul--the unique, everlasting, intangible part of a person. In the stunning poem that serves as the centerpiece of the last chapter of Ecclesiastes, the death of a person is described as occurring when "… the dust returns to the ground where it had been and the ruah returns to the God who had given it" (12:7). While previously we saw the life-breath leaving the body at death, here we see it as a separate entity that returns to God, rather than simply disappearing.