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1 | Define Spiritual death ("Dead in sin" ) | Rev 13:8 | Morant61 | 88365 | ||
Greetings Brad! You asked: "Is dead not dead or has it lost its meaning? Are people in the grave able to respond? I believe that spiritualy dead means we are unable to respond to the things of GOD and more importantly in our depraved state hate GOD and have no inclination to Him." But, I could ask you, do dead people go to work? Do dead people marry? Spiritually dead people make all kinds of choices every day, why should it be any different when it comes to responding to God's grace, provided that He takes the initiative and draws us? If Christ did not draw all, I would agree with your point. Natural man would not seek God on their own. Look at Adam and Eve, God sought them, they did not seek God. However, when God called out to them, they did respond - didn't they? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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2 | Define Spiritual death ("Dead in sin" ) | Rev 13:8 | nivlac5 | 88370 | ||
Tim,certainly spiritualy dead people do all sorts of things and make decisions daily. The issue is the inclination of the heart. People make decisions to marry to divorce to do this or that, but spiritualy dead people have no good will intended toward God. There decisions are based on their nature, basically to serve self and gratify the desires of their heart. And as scripture points out "man's heart is desperately wicked who can know it" Nor does it seek God Rom 1,2 and is actually enemy of God, Rom 8.Such is the result of the fall and the result on the will of man. But one may say this is not fair! But who are we to question God's providence or His justice or His mercy or His grace. Do we define God on our terms or the ones stated in the Holy Writ? I prefer the latter.As it says in Isaiah Is 55:9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways And My thoughts than your thoughts. As well as in Deutoronomy 29:29 "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law. We can only be eternaly greatful that we have received Christ and the forgiveness of sins, because it is only by His power and His will that we should be called sons of God. John 1, Eph 2, Titus 3 All of Romans. Bound for the promised land, In love, Brad |
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