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41 | 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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42 | Define Spiritual death ("Dead in sin" ) | Rev 13:8 | nivlac5 | 88364 | ||
Hi Tim, this another brother in Christ.In regards to spiritual death; Eph 2:5 says He made us alive or quickened us. Now if we have been made alive then we were once dead. 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. You mentioned that some men have not sinned as much as others such as not all have murdered. Consider Jesus's sermon on the Mount where he takes the outword sinful action and imposes it to the inward attitude of the heart. Jesus words are clear, if you say Raca to your brother or hate him you have murdered. If you lust after a woman, you have comitted adultery. Romans 1,2 drive the point home that "there is none righteous and none who seeks after God" Just as God gave the Israelites in the book of Ezekiel a heart flesh for heart of stone, so to God regenerates, makes alive those whom the Father gives to the Son. After all, if it were any other way it would not be by Grace. In Christ, Brad | ||||||
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