" The scriptures tell us we are dead in trespasses and sin, not ill."
Funny how the consensus patrum could have gotten it so wrong, for so long, bd; 1500 years at least, right? Did the Reformers' hatred of Rome somehow open their eyes to the error of the Latin Church in this regard? Is this an example of God directing the Reformers in the ways of hatred in order to lead them into the light? You know, the concept of sin as resulting in a sickness, even a fatal sickness, of the soul and body and The Church being a hospital for those sickened by sin is rather more developed in the East than in the West, yet at least in the early days of the Reformation, many of the Reformed "Divines" fairly fell all over themselves to try to convince the Patriarch of Constantinople that they believed the same things as Orthodoxy. They were of course rebuffed, and lectured soundly even on the matter of respect for the Papacy, by the EP, their theology was clearly driven by a desire to break with Rome and little more, but the point is, apparently they had no problem with the concept of sin causing a sort of sickness. What happened?
"What happened?"
They probably read Ephesians for themselves and finally listened to the Holy Spirit rather than the error of 1500 years.
Eph 2:1 And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)