Original Sin is a condition of disorientation that is the consequence of the loss of sanctifying grace that accompanied the Fall (as told in the mythic stories of Eve and Adam).  Faith^UnChristian in “my own xiety” manifests this disorientation.

Baptism – the restoration of sanctifying grace – is the gateway to finding the xiety that God has given me.  The xiety that God has given me reflects the principle that binds my soul to my body and thereby orients me.  That principle is “God’s creative activity in binding my soul to my body”.  It has the structure of a “gift”.

My anxiety, as a Christian, is the fear of the loss of that gift.  I fear the loss of the creative act that binds my soul to my body.  I fear becoming a soulless automaton, like a psychopath, a person filled with rage, a member of a totalitarian cult, and any of the characters that Peters described in Chapters 2, 3 and 4 of his book on Sin.