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1 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Mommapbs | 83106 | ||
In Gen 2:17 God told Adam and Eve the consequences of sin: "in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." Did they die physically or spiritually? Sin separates us from God. Would not Jesus, as our sin bearer, also be separated as a result of OUR sin? As for the death of Jesus, If the suffering was merely physical, why would Jesus have been in such anguish over it? I submit that the pospect of being separated from the Father for even a nanosecond was more that He could bear to imagine. When we consider His death in this light, it makes our salvation even more significant. Yes, most people will die physically, but not everyone has to die spiritually, because Jesus has already paid this penalty for our sinfulness. Did not Jesus taste death for us, so that we would not have to? Hebrews 2:9 This is just my thinking. I'm sure that more accomplished Biblical Scholars have much more to say and debate on this topic . . . |
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2 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Emmaus | 83134 | ||
Mommapbs, It may help to think of spiritual death as a loss of supernatural grace which is basis of our participation in the life of God as his children. So Adam and Eve lost the grace of justice and sanctification when they fell as well as suffering the physical effects including, eventually, physical death. But Jesus is True God as well as True Man and could suffer only the human physical and emotional suffering and death that comes from the separation of the human soul and body. But He could not loose grace because He did not sin and grace is the essence of God's life, because Jesus although He died as a man, did not cease to be God the Son. But in his humanity He had the same horro of physical death which all humans have, because death destroys our integrated self as God created us to be, which is why the resurrection of the body is a central dogma of the Christian faith. The only spiritual sense in which He dies was the separation of His human soul (human spirit) from his human body. Even the human soul can not die except to loose grace. The integrated human being dies when the body is separated from the soul and the body decays because it has lost its connection to the sould which is its animating life force. This is the inevitable result of sin. Emmaus |
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3 | Did Jesus die spiritually? | 2 Cor 5:21 | Mommapbs | 83154 | ||
Greetings Emmaus! I suspect that we all struggle with the word death - because it is a word that is connected with terminus or ending, yet in God's vocabulary, death is a transitional word - as you have pointed out, the soul that has been credited grace will live in eternal UNION with the Lord and the soul upon which the wrath of God has been poured out will live in eternal separation or "excommunication"(?) with God. Your wrote: "The only spiritual sense in which He dies was the separation of His human soul (human spirit) from his human body. Even the human soul can not die except to loose grace. The integrated human being dies when the body is separated from the soul and the body decays because it has lost its connection to the sould which is its animating life force. This is the inevitable result of sin." I'm not quite in agreement with this, see my other posts on this thread. mommapbs |
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