1 Corinthians 2
New International Version (NIV)
2 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.
now it must be asked, that given the generally accepted christian concept that fear and closeness to the Lord don’t exactly go hand in hand, how exactly does one make sense of the above verse ? I mean this is the apostle Paul himself for goodness sakes !,
surely if anyone was ‘‘filled with the holy spirit’’ it was him yet here he makes it clear he was filled with fear ! taking aside the arguments of, this wasn’t written by him (in other words for the sake of the argument lets assume all is a-ok)
I guess this opens up a whole other can of worms, and possibly topple anther popular notion.