Paul doesn't use the terminology "spiritually dead" as your translation has it.* Paul uses the terms "dead" and "alive" to connote my status with respect to God's commandments and statutes. If I am walking in the way of God's commandments, then I am "alive"; but If I am not walking in the way of God's commandments then I am a "dead man."
The terms "dead" and "alive" have been used in passages such as Genesis 20:1-7 and by Paul in the same sense. In Genesis 20:3, God warns Abimelech that he is "a dead man" if he doesn't release Sarah, Abraham's wife. Similarly, in verse 7, God warns Abimelech that he and his people shall surely die if they don't comply. Paul also uses these terms to describe his conversion experience in Romans chapter 7.
Romans 7:7-12
What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, taking opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind; for apart from the Law sin is dead. I was once alive apart from the Law; but when the commandment came, sin became alive and I died; and this commandment, which was to result in life, proved to result in death for me; for sin, taking an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So then, the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Paul isn't speaking about literal death here. He has employed the terms "dead" and "alive" in a figurative sense to indicate his status with regard to eternal life. Before he came to understand the sin of coveting he was "alive" with respect to the Law and God's promise of life. But once he understood the profound significance of the sin of coveting, he "died" and was no longer "alive" with respect to the law. This kind of language points back to God's promise to Israel that if they kept the law, they would live long and prosper in the land of promise. He was "dead" with respect to God's promise of life.
Once Paul realized this, he was free to seek another means to find life, which is the eternal life that is found in Jesus Christ.
In the past, the Law dictated that if you followed it, you would live. However, Paul realized that he couldn't follow the Law, which meant that he was essentially a dead man walking. In one of his earlier writings, Paul also expressed that the consequences of sin are death. Therefore, if someone is living in sin, they are considered "dead" in their sins. On the other hand, if someone follows Christ, they are "alive" and are destined for eternal life.
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*In fact, your translation contains a lot of errors.
Spiritual death is spiritual death and I understand it well....As I was once dead and void of Gods Spirit......until he decided to make me Alive in his Spirit.
We were once “ void” of Gods Spirit...until as I just said, decided to Spirit gives birth to spirit.....he births our spirit into his....that’s what Spirit gives birth to spirit means.....his Spirit is Alive and he brings our spirit Alive..via the Holy Spirit....
There is nothing complicated in being Born of God...very easy to understand...I don’t needs loads of commentary to understand what Born Again means...that is testified with our spirit that we are Gods children....it’s a “ Living “ birth...you know that right?
I only understand the word of God through the Holy Spirit...I know you try to help others understand.but, with respect I only understand a little of what “ you teach”....
The Holy Spirit is my teacher and I only recognise his voice......he’s in control of all of my understanding of HIS word....I have and do ignore a lot of what is said by others.....as I don’t recognise the word of God through them...and I’m sure they do / think the same about what I say...
And the translation that I posted , contains no errors..that’s a matter of opinion..
Spiritual death is real...which you seem not to understand........he brings our spirit that is dead and in sin, Alive...which is a supernatural act that only God can do......
Maybe Got commentary will help you understand..that’s if it’s Gods will.
What is spiritual death?
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Death is separation. A physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. Spiritual death, which is of greater significance, is the separation of the soul from God. In
Genesis 2:17, God tells Adam that in the day he eats of the forbidden fruit he will “surely die.” Adam does fall, but his
physical death does not occur immediately; God must have had another type of death in mind—spiritual death. This separation from God is exactly what we see in
Genesis 3:8. When Adam and Eve heard the voice of the Lord, they “hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God.” The fellowship had been broken. They were spiritually dead.
A man without Christ is spiritually dead. Paul describes it as “being alienated from the life of God” in
Ephesians 4:18. (To be separated from life is the same as being dead.) The natural man, like Adam hiding in the garden, is isolated from God. When we are born again, the spiritual death is reversed. Before salvation, we are dead (spiritually), but Jesus gives us life. “And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,” (
Ephesians 2:1 NKJV). “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins” (
Colossians 2:13).
To illustrate, think of Jesus’ raising of Lazarus in
John 11. The physically dead Lazarus could do nothing for himself. He was unresponsive to all stimuli, oblivious to all life around him, beyond all help or hope—except for the help of Christ who is “the Resurrection and the Life” (
John 11:25). At Christ’s call, Lazarus was filled with life, and he responded accordingly. In the same way, we were spiritually dead, unable to save ourselves, powerless to perceive the life of God—until Jesus called us to Himself. He “quickened” us; “not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy” (
Titus 3:5).
The book of Revelation speaks of a “second death,” which is a final (and eternal) separation from God. Only those who have never experienced new life in Christ will partake of the second death (
Revelation 2:11;
20:6,
14;
21:8).
