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What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “God fearing”?
One of the first things I picture is an old movie. Maybe it’s even black and white. And one of the characters is described as a “God-fearing woman” or a “God-fearing man.” It could even be a John Wayne movie, such as the 1947 feature Angel and the Badman in which John Wayne plays an injured outlaw who is nursed back to health in a proper, God-fearing home.
There was a time when that phrase was commonly used to describe a pious and upstanding member of the community.
But we almost never use the phrase anymore, though a few people may pine with nostalgia for those “olden days” when there were more “decent, God-fearing folks.” The idea of fearing God, however, occurs regularly in the Bible and means something far deeper than being decent, moral, and churchgoing.
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