Is God's love not perfect if believers still have fear?

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Is Gods love not perfect, if believers still have fear?

Because if perfect love casts out all fear, then why are some believers still fearful?

Exactly when does that casting out of fear happen?
 
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Imperfect love.
EDIT: In all things dubious, doubtful, imperfect or seemingly contradictory about God, it is best - always and everywhere - to doubt ourselves first. Then pray for understanding.
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‘He who loves God with all his heart does not fear death or punishment or judgment or hell,
because perfect love assures access to God.’ - The Imitation of Christ

‘Some believers’ as you say are to blame, not God.
 
is it logical for Him to be perfect, and to live in us, yet for us to still be full of fear?

I want to beleive that there is this perfect love that will cast out fear.
 
1 John 4:8 The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

He is perfect, but WE are not perfect, and without striving alot we cannot love alot. If there is still fear, there is still striving to do to become more loving.

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@Stephen_says If He is perfect love, then can He NOT cast out fear(s)?

Why do we need to work so hard and fall into a crumble over and over as we Strive?

Why can He NOT save us from ourselves right now-if He has that power?

Why does He withhold that, if His love can cast it all out of us?
 
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Is Gods love not perfect, if believers still have fear?

Because if perfect love casts out all fear, then why are some believers still fearful?

Exactly when does that casting out of fear happen?
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From Eden until today the problem is not about God not loving man, but rather about man not loving God. Not even getting to know Him well enough to love Him- and knowledge of the true God produces love automatically. Adam didn’t bother; he just set about on his own path, determining morality for himself, not recognizing God as his God. He preferred himself to God, as the catechism teaches.But in this very non-Edenic world, Adam’s job and ours is to come to learn the hard way of our need for God, and thus of His existence along with His trustworthiness and goodness- of His love. We need to come to know Him first of all, and that’s why Jesus came, to reveal Him. Then fear is cast out; then obedience flows of its own accord.That’s “all” Adam needed.

"Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." John 17:3
 
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