Fear of God and Conscience
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The Ancient Hebrews had their own understanding of the "Fear of God" and the role that conscience played in exercising it wisely. So did the Puritans. Some say the Puritans really understood this concept of the Fear of God, better than any other group either in or outside Scripture. Is this correct? Just how similar could the two groups be, despite being separated by hundreds, if not thousands, of years?
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For Puritanism, they were certainly austere. As I'm sure you already know, their strict dress and public moral code owed almost everything to the at-the-time Calvinist belief that nothing should be done unless explicitly stated in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures. This was very different from, say, the Lutheran conviction that as long as something wasn't prohibited in Scripture, it was acceptable. Perhaps that partially explains why the colleagues you refer to would say that they understood "fear of the Lord" more than all others.
I, for one, would not exactly agree with that assertion, as it led many Puritans ...
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