I'm still unclear what is meant by spiritually dead. Is is a metaphor, or is it describing in some literal way the death of a spirit?
I wonder what these verses mean to you?
Luke 9:60; But He said to him, "Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God."
Do you think the physically dead bury their dead?
Rom 6:4; Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so
we too might walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:11; Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but
alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 6:13; and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as
those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Do you think these people were physically dead?
Rom 8:10; If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin,
yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Rom 8:13; for if you are
living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
What does it mean to live by the Spirit? How is it "you will live" if you are already alive?
Eph 2:1; And
you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Do you think they were really physically dead?
Eph 2:5; even when we were
dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
Col 2:13; When you were
dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgression
What kind of death is it talking about here? What part of these people are "made alive together with Him".
1Tim 5:6; But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives.
How can someone be dead while they are alive?
1Pet 3:18; For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but
made alive in the spirit;
How is a spirit "made alive"? Was it alive before it was made alive?
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Rev 2:11; 'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes will not be hurt by the second death.'
Rev 20:6; Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Rev 20:14; Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Rev 21:8; "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
What is the second death? How is it different from the "first death"?
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This is Christianity 101. Being alive in the Spirit. I've been in dozens of churches of several different denominations, but never been in one that didn't teach this.