something like scales fell from his eyes

[Carbon]

Can you also provide me with a passage from scripture stating such thing as "spiritual death" exists? Maybe perhaps explain what that term means, exactly, in the context of this op? Thx

I wonder sometimes why you ask these questions when you are a mature Christian who should know these things. ?

 

[Carbon]

Adn, by way of addendum, I refrain from using the phrase "spiritual death" because it's not found in scripture and there's no such thing as a person with a dead spirit in the Bible. We're dead in sin. We don't have a spirit that is literally dead and without clarification the phrase can be misleading.

Why do you use the word, Trinity, the word is not in the bible either.

 

[Carbon]

Can you also provide me with a passage from scripture stating such thing as "spiritual death" exists? Maybe perhaps explain what that term means, exactly, in the context of this op? Thx

When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden, what happened to them? Did they die spiritually, or physically that day?

There is always that chance he physically died that day if a day was a thousand years or more. But physical death really wouldn't fit.

 

[Arial]

When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden, what happened to them? Did they die spiritually, or physically that day?

There is always that chance he physically died that day if a day was a thousand years or more. But physical death really wouldn't fit.

Well, God didn't say you will die spiritually. He just said "You will die." He did not say when and indeed Adam and Eve did eventually die.

If it is contrasted to eating of the tree of life, it may have spiritual applications, but it is physical death. They were mortal beings, (capable of dying) but they did not have to die. Only one thing would cause that to happen. Potentially two if they also never ate of the tree of life.

 

[Carbon]

Well, God didn't say you will die spiritually. He just said "You will die." He did not say when and indeed Adam and Eve did eventually die.

If it is contrasted to eating of the tree of life, it may have spiritual applications, but it is physical death. They were mortal beings, (capable of dying) but they did not have to die. Only one thing would cause that to happen. Potentially two if they also never ate of the tree of life.

God did say, for on the day you eat of it, you will surely die. (Gen 2:17) So, if they didn't die physically the day they ate, how did they die?

Either way and in either form, death is separation. Physical death is separation from the physical body. Spiritual death, which is much worse is separation from God. Spiritually dead, the soul is separated from God. Hence - Original sin.

 

[Carbon]

God did say, for on the day you eat of it, you will surely die. (Gen 2:17) So, if they didn't die physically the day they ate, how did they die?

Either way and in either form, death is separation. Physical death is separation from the physical body. Spiritual death, which is much worse is separation from God. Spiritually dead, the soul is separated from God. Hence - Original sin.

If one has to be born of the spirit, (born again), that speaks of spiritual death, the teaching is clearly in scripture.


Eph 2:1 And you [b]were dead in your offenses and sins,


Curious, that's not sp[iritually dead to you?

 

[Carbon]

Well, God didn't say you will die spiritually. He just said "You will die." He did not say when and indeed Adam and Eve did eventually die.

If it is contrasted to eating of the tree of life, it may have spiritual applications, but it is physical death. They were mortal beings, (capable of dying) but they did not have to die. Only one thing would cause that to happen. Potentially two if they also never ate of the tree of life.

Imagine if God did not kick them from the garden and the tree. And they were allowed to stay and eat, they (and we) would live forever, spiritually dead.