God has told us in Genesis that when Adam sinned, death entered the world. God simply says death, period. But some try to claim that it is not death, but “spiritual death” even though this is not stated. The reason for this is to try to insert millions of years of evolution in before Adam. However this is not a spiritual death. Our spirit does not die, our physical bodies die. Our spirit is what is raised, not what dies:
1CO 15:42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
So, what dies? The natural body which is perishable. What is raised? The Spiritual body which is IMPERISHABLE.
1CO 15:50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Can the natural, flesh and blood body go to heaven? No. What does? The imperishable, spiritual body.
1CO 15:53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."*
So the natural, perishable, flesh and blood body must "clothe itself" with the imperishable, spiritual, "immortal" body. At that point, death is swallowed up in victory.
The spiritual body is imperishable and immortal. It cannot die. Therefore Romans 5:12 cannot be talking about a spiritual death, only about a physical one.
The spirit is "imperishable" and "immortal". How exactly can that which cannot perish and is immortal, die? Answer: It cannot. Therefore the spirit does not die and the Romans verse cannot be referring to only a spiritual death.
The death referred to in Romans was the physical death that entered the world through Adam's sin. To this sin God proclaimed that Adam would not be able to eat from the tree of life and live forever (GE3:22). But we know the spirit is immortal, so this cannot be a spiritual death. We also know that man DOES live forever in heaven in the spiritual body which is raised. So again, the spirit is not what dies. It is the physical body that dies.
The death that is referred to in 1JN3:14 is the second death which happens to nonbelievers at judgment. But this death isn't what most people think of death either. The spirit doesn't just go to the River of Fire and die, poof, gone. The spirit is still immortal and it abides in death "forever and ever." (REV 14:11 and 20:10)
In His Service… Arthur Smith
God has told us in Genesis that when Adam sinned, death entered the world. God simply says death, period. But some try to claim that it is not death, but “spiritual death” even though this is not stated. The reason for this is to try to insert millions of years of evolution in before Adam. However this is not a spiritual death. Our spirit does not die, our physical bodies die. Our spirit is what is raised, not what dies:
1CO 15:42 So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
So, what dies? The natural body which is perishable. What is raised? The Spiritual body which is IMPERISHABLE.
1CO 15:50 I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
Can the natural, flesh and blood body go to heaven? No. What does? The imperishable, spiritual body.
1CO 15:53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."*
So the natural, perishable, flesh and blood body must "clothe itself" with the imperishable, spiritual, "immortal" body. At that point, death is swallowed up in victory.
The spiritual body is imperishable and immortal. It cannot die. Therefore Romans 5:12 cannot be talking about a spiritual death, only about a physical one.
The spirit is "imperishable" and "immortal". How exactly can that which cannot perish and is immortal, die? Answer: It cannot. Therefore the spirit does not die and the Romans verse cannot be referring to only a spiritual death.
The death referred to in Romans was the physical death that entered the world through Adam's sin. To this sin God proclaimed that Adam would not be able to eat from the tree of life and live forever (GE3:22). But we know the spirit is immortal, so this cannot be a spiritual death. We also know that man DOES live forever in heaven in the spiritual body which is raised. So again, the spirit is not what dies. It is the physical body that dies.
The death that is referred to in 1JN3:14 is the second death which happens to nonbelievers at judgment. But this death isn't what most people think of death either. The spirit doesn't just go to the River of Fire and die, poof, gone. The spirit is still immortal and it abides in death "forever and ever." (REV 14:11 and 20:10)
In His Service… Arthur Smith
