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Free to love God
In the King James Version as well as other translations of the Bible, the word fear is often used to describe how worshipers should show their reverence for God. For instance, this command seems clear: “And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul” (Deuteronomy 10:12). People who are familiar with the King James Bible become accustomed to such uses of the word fear as referring to respect, honor, awe, and love when they read passages like this.
Today, of course, most of us think of fear as feeling afraid. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, “Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear of patients.… If you succeed in wholly removing the fear, your patient is healed” (pp. 411–412).

March 11, 2019 issue
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From the readers
Steve Noltie, Kay Deaves
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God is Mind—in the classroom and beyond
Ginger Dossey
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Free to love God
John Biggs
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God’s child isn’t a failure—a schoolteacher’s story
Grace Kingsbery
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What helped me help my son
Name Withheld
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Brotherly love and fairness in education
Joan Bernard Bradley
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Seeing clearly
Emmi Easton
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Who am I now?
Ashleigh Helms
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Back pain gone
Paul Sedan
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Healed ‘quickly and wholly’ after riding accident
Liz Butterfield Wallingford
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Healing of sores on feet
Rod Wagner
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‘Thou shalt have …’
Caroline Martin
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A humble and earnest response to the demand for Church
Kim Crooks Korinek