Spiritual death, according to Christianity, is our natural state of separation from God prior to accepting Christ. We are spiritually dead due to sin, lacking spiritual life and the ability to save ourselves. It is only through Jesus Christ that humans can be raised from spiritual death. By believing in Jesus, who is the resurrection and the life, Christians receive eternal life and are saved from the second death of eternal damnation after physical death. Even believers can experience the "death-like symptoms of sin" when they rebel through sin, feeling distant from God, but Jesus saves believers from spiritual death.

1. Spiritual Death – 28th October 2015
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they
die”( John 11:25).
Death, accordingto dictionary definitions,is a cessation of vital functions or a lack of life.Spiritual death in terms
of Christianity is our natural stateprior to acceptingChristas our savior.“Asfor you, you were dead in your
transgressions and sins, (Ephesians 2:1). This is to say that we are spiritually dead until we startto believe in
Jesus. Spiritually dead is a lack of spiritual life,an absenceof proper spiritual functioning.God is the eternally
existent One, the "I AM". We can read in Exodus 3:14 – “God said to Moses, “I AM WHO IAM.This is what you are
to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you”; God enabled millionsof lifeforms on earth alone. God created
life.God is life.Therefore we can understand broadly that Spiritual death is separation fromGod, because He is life
and our creator.
As Christianswemust know that only through Jesus Christthat humans can be raised fromspiritual death. Jesus
Christbeing God incarnate,is associated with lifenumerous times throughout the New Testament. He is lifeand
comes to give us life:“In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.(John 1:4); Not only lifebut also
offers protection so that we could haveit to the full: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have
come that they may have life, and have it to the full”(Johm10:10). We can also read in John 11:25 - “Jesus said to
her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die” Again in John
14:6 “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”
We can learn that due to our sin we were spiritually dead:“Asfor you, you were dead in your transgressions and
sins” (Ephesians 2:10).It is only through Jesus Christthat we can be saved from spiritually death:“When you were
dead in your sins and in the un circumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our
sins”(Colossians 2:13). When we lack Jesus,we lack life.Therefore we are spiritually dead.We know that dead
people cannot help themselves. Life does not come from non- life.This is why salvation isall of grace. We are
incapableof doinganythingto saveourselves;only Jesus can, the Author of Life, can saveus, We can learn in
Ephesians 2:“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift
of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do
good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:8-10).It elaborates further when we read
Romans 6:23 that says:"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord." Man is sinful—spiritually dead—but God gives life”.
One may want to know "How can an infantbe born spiritually dead?".Spiritual death became a reality for
humanity through sin after the Fall of Adam and Eve. God instructed Adam to refrain from eating the frui tof the
tree of knowledge of good and evil,warningthat eating the fruitwould resultin death: “And the LORD God
commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” (Genesis 2:16-17).Their human
nature made them not listen to Gods instruction buttheir will. After Eve and Adam ate the fruit,however, they did
not immediately experience physical death.Rather, their relationship with God was severed. They became aware
of their nakedness,created clothes of leaves,and hid themselves from God in shame: “When the woman saw that
the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took
some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of
them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings
for themselves.8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in

2. the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the LORD God called to
the man, “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:6-9). Their sin separated them from God.
As we learn from this text, we can consider an unbeliever in Christas a spiritually dead person.The spiritually dead
do not give thought or consideration beyond their current existence: “The god of this age has blinded the minds
of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image
of God (2 Corinthians 4:4). They assumethat their current physical lifeis all thereis in addition to other beliefs of
rebirth etc.. They fail to recognize their sense of purposelessness,for now, after death and an eternity thereafter
with our creator God. As such their pursuits seekingGod do not provide fulfillment…what happens after the
physical death.Christians should understand thatthere is a real danger of eternal punishment. Without the new
lifethat Christianscould receivethrough Jesus Christ,the sinner's physical death will befollowed by the second
death: “Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone
whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:14-
15).Therefore through our faith in Christwe can be saved and thus avoid eternal damnation.
Even believers,who have spiritual life,sometimes FAIL to fully liveitby rebellingthrough sin.The consequence of
sin is spiritual death which we can learn in Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”.When believers in Christtoy with sin,they experience the ‘death-like
symptoms of sin’– a sense of distancefrom God. Spiritual death is a stateof being alienated from God. Believers
have been given eternal life, through Jesus Christ which includes life"to the full" even in our current human
existence: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to
the full (John 10:10).Through His teachings found in the bible, we can learn our protection from the “thief” who
always attempts to causeus to loseour spiritual standingwith God. It is Jesus who can save us from spiritual death
and eternal destruction. He brings us from spiritual death into life.As Christianswemust always remember:
"Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath
remains on them"(John 3:36).
“Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live,
even though they die”( John 11:25).