The Fear of Death is a Consequence of the Fall

But it becomes problematic because it compounds and magnifies disordered self-love?

Theosis

The spiritual reality is that we become like what we worship. God detests idols and false gods because we were not made to be as lifeless as they are. So the Lord became like us, the Lover like His beloved, so we may become like Him, the lovers like the Beloved.

— fah’Tim (@FrGrumbach) July 22, 2021

Why We Are Restless

Great interview by Hope Leman of Ben and Jenna Storey on their new book in my series at Princeton University Press--New Forum Books--"Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment."https://t.co/VDecqjAdu4

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) July 2, 2021

Another Quote That Needs to Be Interpreted in an Orthodox Manner

"He who compels himself and holds on to repentance until the end, even if he sins is saved because he compelled himself, for the Lord promised this in the Gospel."

- St. Mark the Ascetic pic.twitter.com/rozhp9LtiH

— Gravantus (@The_Tabellion) December 16, 2020

Reason or Appetite?

It has never happened that a ruling class reviews, all the way to its deepest roots, the ideology on which it rests, if it is not forced to.

— Augusto Del Noce (@AugustoDelNoce) November 26, 2020

Is it more likely that a tryannical regime errs first not in the reason but in the appetite?

And Some Would Hold This Against Her?

as a sign of imperfection...

“Perhaps someone will say [of Mary]: “Had she not known before that he would not die?” Undoubtedly. “Did she not expect him to rise again at once?” Surely. “And still she grieved over her crucified Son?” Intensely.” —St. Bernard pic.twitter.com/Ax2JsMLo39

— Fr. David Paternostro, SJ (@DavidPaternostr) September 15, 2020

The Wages of Sin

"The literary canon of Hebrew-speaking ancients does not distinguish between philosophical & religious principles [as] Athenian Greeks did, yet a conviction that human miscreance corrupts the ecosystem & personal health alike is everywhere apparent."https://t.co/dOxD8JiLbP

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) May 13, 2020

"To determine whether and to what extent the wages of sin are indeed an 'etiologic' antecedent of death we apply the concepts and methods of epidemiology, the science of the distribution and determinants of disease across populations."

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) May 13, 2020

Interview with Peter Bouteneff

Necessity?

What is meant by "sinless flesh" here? Is it the same as corruptible? And is it to be identified only with the consequences of Adam's sin on the body, or is there more to it than that (e.g. effects on the soul)?

CWR: The Immaculate Conception Revisited by Dr. Leroy Huizenga

The necessity of the Immaculate Conception does not demand an infinite regress of sinless ancestors, nor does the dogma’s necessity involve ecclesiastical voluntarism. Rather, it’s a necessary part of the Catholic conception of the economy of salvation.

Sin and the Sin Offering

The Spirit of AL

CWR Dispatch: “The Greatest Sin is losing the sense of Sin” by Eduardo Echeverria

Related: CWR/CNA: Cardinal Cupich launches “Amoris Laetitia” seminars for US bishops

The Human Condition

The Wedding Garment

Sin Cripples

The Forefathers' Sin

Adam's Sin

Fr. Schall on the Forgiveness of Sins

“And Those Whose Sins Ye Shall Retain. . .”

Mercy is a secondary issue. It is not needed unless something goes wrong in the world. Christ came for the unjust, not the just. (Luke 5:32) In a sinless world, no one needs mercy. Still, it is not a sinless world, however much we might deny, privately and publicly, that certain sins are not sins.

Before anything needing forgiveness existed, Aquinas held that the universe was created in mercy, not justice. God was not necessitated to create anything. Creation did not occur because God “owed” something to someone in justice. God in creating did understand that free creatures, if He created any of these wobbly types, might well need mercy in addition to justice. So he proceeded with His plan.

Mercy is not “opposed” to justice, as if it makes justice somehow disappear in God and man. It is not either mercy or justice, but both justice and mercy. Mercy comes into play only when justice is requited.

The Nephilim

Who are the nephilim? by Fr. Jonathan Tobias

The Sin of Judas

Repentance is the key that opens the door to salvation. It could have for Judas. It still can for us.http://myocn.net/the-sin-of-judas-was-not-the-betrayal/

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Sin of Judas

Repentance is the key that opens the door to salvation. It could have for Judas. It still can for us.http://myocn.net/the-sin-of-judas-was-not-the-betrayal/

Posted by Orthodox Christian Network on Tuesday, March 29, 2016