Ojcowie Apostolscy o Bożej karze za grzechy
The Apostolic Fathers on God's Punishment for Sins

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the teaching of the Apostolic Fathers on God’s punishment for sins. The Fathers base their reflections mainly on the Holy Scripture. Thus, they refer to the image of the way of life as the way of salvation, to which they devote most of their attention, and to the image of the way of death, which they try to warn the adresees of their writings against. The way of death is the way of negation of God’s commandments, disregard of God’s will and a stubborn persistence in sins. The consequence of such an attitude is eternal punishment, which the Fathers describe as death and deprivation of participation in the Kingdom of God. The man who denies God condemns himself to eternal punishment. He will burn in unquenchable fire. The teaching of the Apostolic Fathers is of a strictly pastoral character.

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