Fear Of Death
Definition
The Eastern patristic teaching, stated by Chrysostom, that what we inherit from Adam is death/mortality, not guilt; mortality breeds fear, fear breeds the struggle for existence, and that struggle is sin
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Inherited Mortality Ancestral Sin
Biblical References
- Genesis 6-8 (Noah’s Ark) — When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose. So
- Galatians 3:27 — *For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. *
- Romans 8:29 — *because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. *
- Ephesians 1:5 — He did this by predestining us to adoption as his legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of his will—
- Philippians 3:21 — *who will transform these humble bodies of ours into the likeness of his glorious body by means of that power by which he is able to subject all things to himself. *
- Hebrews 3:14 — *For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end. *