Exploring the Nature of Fear and Love There is a question that serious theology has never quite answered: if God is love, why is our first instinct to fall to our knees in fear? Walk into any cathedral, mosque, or temple. Feel the architecture doing its work. The vaulted ceilings, the darkness, the scale — all designed to make you small. The message is clear before a single word of scripture is read: you are insignificant, and God is vast . This is not an accident. The entire