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Why according to orthodoxy do infants die?
because they are mortal, which all men inherited from Adam in the Fall along with corruption and an inclination to sin. it has nothing to do with legalism or any guilt because of Adam's sin.
Death is not punishment for sin, but rather the consequence.
It is a consequence in the sense that you are breaking communion and moving away from the source of all life. I don't think it has anything in common with crime and punishment, but that's just me. They are loaded terms which produce a distorted view of God IMO.Is it a consequence in the same way that breaking the law leads to jail time?
It is a consequence in the sense that you are breaking communion and moving away from the source of all life. I don't think it has anything in common with crime and punishment, but that's just me. They are loaded terms which produce a distorted view of God IMO.
According to your answer Matt, "death is the consequence of sin..." doesn't that leap to a conclusion that excludes "for the wages of sin is death?"
In Romans we read that they HAD NOT SINNED after the similitude of Adam's transgression yet all of humanity still receives Adam's punishment. How is it possible that humanity inherited the punishment for Adam's crime?
Is it fair to say that all of humanity in Adam fell into sin and all of humanity in Christ will be saved? If that is fair to say, why?
How did Adam's commandment breaking (not to eat of the fruit of the tree) make us "sinners," allowing babies to die without actual sin, making us guilty of sin?
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:"
According to Orthodoxy how did "death pass upon all men, for that all have sinned?"
we didn't inherit the punishment for Adam's crime. a baby who is born with HIV because his dad slept around is not punished for the disease, but he must live with HIV.
You mean...the HIV was inherited by the baby whose father sinned, like sin was inherited by the children of Adam? That's a good example.
Thank you Matt. Steller!
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