What support do you have for spiritual death?
1st Some background
Topic: Soul, "nepes" noun- self, will, emotions, mind person.
Topic: Spirit,"pneuma" noun, signifies (a) "breath, the breath of life," (b) "wind," "spirit," "breath."
1 Thess 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole "spirit and soul and body" be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(NOTE: We are spirit, soul & body)
Man is spirit with a soul that lives in a body
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the "dividing asunder of soul and spirit", and of the joints and marrow,
(NOTE: Man can't physically see nor separate soul or spirit, GOD CAN)
John 4:24 (A) God is a spirit.
Gen 2:7 God breathed His life giving spirit, into mans body & man became a living soul.
(NOTE: Man is only a "living soul" in relation to & in conjunction with the body. When the body dies & the two are no longer one. Yet, spirit/soul continue to live on)
Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Matt 16:26 & Mk 8:36 What would it profit a man. To gain the whole world & lose his soul. (NOTE: A soul/spirit can be lost).
Our choices in this life will determine whether our spirit/soul spend eternity in the presents of God our creator. Or eternity seperated from God our creator.
Physical death is the separation of the soul/spirit from the body
Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
Your Question: What support do you have for spiritual death?
Spiritual death is the separation from God's presents
Eph 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
(NOTE: We are seperated/alienated from the life of God via sin.)
Gen 2:16-17 God warns Adam about sin.
Gen 3:8 God is walking thru the garden to fellowship/commun with Adam, hiding daily due to his sin.
Gen 3:23 God exiles Adam from the Garden & His presents. RIGHT HERE Adam die's a spiritual death.
Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
(NOTE: Faith in Christ's sin payment & resurrection can quickens/makes us SPIRITUALLY alive. And now thru Jesus we can boldly stand in God's presents Heb 4:16)
I believe Adam did IN FACT die spiritually & physically """in the day""" he ate the friut
Scripture's teach:
Ps 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
NOTE: In Gods sight a day 1000 years is like yesterday = 1 day)
2 Pet 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
(NOTE: With the Lord, 1 day is like 1000 years)
Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. (Adam died 930 yrs old)
Even though Adam lived to be 930. He did in fact, die """IN THE DAY""" he ate the fruit.