DEFINITION OF TERMS – DEATH (THANATOS)

By RCT Editor
3 weeks Ago

Word Information

Word: Thanatos (Gk)
English: Death
θάνατος | thanatos | death

Source: Thayer’s Greek Lexicon of the New Testament
Author: Joseph H. Thayer

"Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death." Revelation 20:14

Definition

properly, the death of the body, i.e. that separation (whether natural or violent) of the soul from the body by which the life on earth is ended
metaphorically, the loss of that life which alone is worthy of the name, i. e. “the misery of soul arising from sin, which begins on earth but lasts and increases after the death of the body”
In the widest sense, death comprises all the miseries arising from sin, as well physical death as the loss of a life consecrated to God and blessed in him on earth

Death is the penalty for sin.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus died once and for all, and now reigns in life -forever. So shall it be with those who join Him in death to sin, and overcome it, becoming like Him in His resurrection.

Romans 6:4-14
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more.

Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.