" It is the ungodly fear that possessed Adam’s heart when he ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Lord told him, “For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” It was then that he was in such fear of God that he hid himself from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden. “I heard,” said Adam, “the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself” (Genesis 3:10). We see that Adam had a fear of God, but it was not a godly fear. It was not a fear that kept him from fleeing from God. A godly fear would have brought him to the Lord again, with a broken, contrite, and submissive spirit. No, this fear, like his other sin, chased him until he fled from his God. It made him keep away from God. Everything in Adam wanted to avoid God. I call it ungodly fear because it gives birth to ungodly misgivings about a person’s Maker. It limited Adam’s conscience to see only God’s justice and this led him to despair. "

― John Bunyan , The Fear Of God What It Is And What It Is Not