Sin and Death
The Human Being · 5 passages · 14 more on file · Broad agreement in this library · Against: Gnosticism, Marcionism
Death and corruption as consequence, not a second creator's work.
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And he himself endured — so that he might abolish death and show the rising from the dead — because he had to be made visible in flesh, so that he might pay the promise to the fathers, and so that, preparing a new people for himself while he was on the earth, he might show that he himself, having made the resurrection…
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Greek
αὐτὸς δέ, ἵνα καταργήσῃ τὸν θάνατον καὶ τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν δείξῃ, ὅτι ἐν σαρκὶ ἔδει αὐτὸν φανερωθῆναι, ὑπέμεινεν, ἵνα τοῖς πατράσιν τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν ἀποδῷ, καὶ αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ τὸν λαὸν τὸν καινὸν ἑτοιμάζων ἐπιδείξῃ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὤν, ὅτι τὴν ἀνάστασιν αὐτὸς ποιήσας κρινεῖ.
They forget the commandments of the living God and walk in deceits and empty luxuries, and they are ruined by this angel — some unto death, some unto corruption.”
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How then am I to accept a birth under fate, when I see such “managers” of it? I do not want to be king. I do not want to be rich.
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That is why God forbade him to take from the tree for a time — not from jealousy, but so that he might grow first. Disobedience finally brought death.
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If people shared in God — and so also in reason — they would first weigh what repentance is worth, and would never use it to enlarge a crooked “improvement.” They would temper the measure of repenting because they would also hold the measure of sinning — fearing the Lord.
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