C. M. Sheffield
Puritan Board Graduate
Brother, you'll have to forgive me, but I believe your reasoning to be purely semantical. And the issue seems to arise from the idea that all anxiety must have distrust in God as a necessary component. I do not believe it does. There are natural anxieties (like the one's mentioned above) that may be free from a sinful distrust in God even though they be very great. That is what I believe our Lord experienced in a pure and holy manner. And that is one of the ways, as our High Priest, he was touched with the feeling of our infirmities and was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.Sounds to me like alarm and distress, not anxiety. I can be alarmed or distressed about something without having anxiety about it. I'm alarmed and distressed about how the UK parliament is trying to sabotage Brexit. I'm not in a state of anxiety about it.