 
              Is Joy Possible Apart from Feelings of Happiness and Delight?
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            Many Christians spiritualize the word joy, contrasting it with happiness and portraying it as independent of emotion or pleasure. Some claim that joy is a fruit of the Spirit and therefore not an emotion. 
        
    
  
 
                 
               
               
          