Posted on 04/11/2026 1:23:39 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
The Orthodox Church begins with the human condition. Humanity turns from God, who is Life. The result is not a legal sentence imposed from without, but corruption arising from within. Death enters human existence as the intrinsic consequence of separation from God.
Scripture names the problem plainly.
“The wages of sin is death.”
Romans 6:23 (LSB)
Death is not something the Father needs to be paid. It is what follows when creatures cut themselves off from the source of life.
The question salvation answers, therefore, is not how God can be persuaded to forgive, but how humanity can be rescued from corruption and mortality.
(Excerpt) Read more at mindofthefathers.substack.com ...
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Ezekiel 28 describes what brought forth the death sentence for Lucifer; ya know that ‘serpent’, tree of the knowledge of good and evil...
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