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Bible Question: Are we born spiritually dead? Where is the scripture that states
we are born spiritually dead? Genesis? Does the term born again
come from being dead in spirit?
Bible Answer: God tells us that our spirits are dead! Maybe one of the most
interesting passages in scripture is about spiritually dead men
and women. It is found in Ephesians 2.
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And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly
walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince
of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in
the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived
in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh
and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as
the rest. (NASB) Ephesians 2:1-3 |
What an illustration! The Holy Spirit describes Christians as
having been dead men and women who were walking around. This is
the walking dead. We are described as walking around in this world.
We were disobedient and living as we pleased. We were alive in
body, yet we were dead. Now how can that be? There is only one
way - alive in body and dead in spirit. Dead men and women do
not walk around!
When did our spirit die? It happened when Adam sinned back
in Genesis. God had warned Adam that he would die. He had warned
Adam not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Our English translations miss a very important word in Genesis
2:17.
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. . . but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely
die." (NASB) Genesis 2:17 |
God did not just say, "you shall surely die," the original Hebrew
records God as saying, "you shall not die die." God repeated the
word "die" twice. This Hebrew root word MUT means "to be executed -
to die." Was God merely adding emphasis when He used "die" twice
or did He imply physical AND spiritual death? Whatever |
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