Ezekiel 18:4 - The Soul That Sinneth It Shall Die: Is This Referring to Physical or Spiritual Death? скачать в хорошем качестве

Ezekiel 18:4 - The Soul That Sinneth It Shall Die: Is This Referring to Physical or Spiritual Death?

Some people believe that Ezekiel 18 is referring to physical death with regards to what happens to the soul that sinneth. This is mistakenly assumed as true only when someone overlooks the entire context of that chapter and doesn't fully understand what happened to Adam and Eve the day they ate the forbidden fruit. Adam did not force us all to be born dead in trespasses and sins, as if all men are born totally depraved or spiritually dead at birth. This false understanding of mankind having a sinful nature at birth has led to wrong interpretations of what types of death are being referred to in other Scriptures. Adam forced physical death upon all of mankind because his sin banished him and all of his posterity from having access to the tree of life which would have provided mankind with eternal physical life. Adam and Eve were created with a right spiritual standing with God and they were told that the day they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they would surely die. They didn't die physically that day, but they did die spiritually that very day when they became dead in their trespasses and sins and recognized that they were naked. They had lost their right spiritual standing with God. God never wanted them to eat from the tree of life because He didn't want them to live forever in their sins. This helps us to see that the tree of life was only meant to offer them eternal physical life in the spiritually alive state they were created with. The tree of life couldn't offer them spiritual life or else God would have wanted them to eat from it. Their sin needed to be dealt with another way! Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. Once we understand that we are born good and upright and innocent in God's eyes, we can then understand how Ezekiel 18 is referring to spiritual death that happens to the soul who sins and they become dead in trespasses and sins and lose that right spiritual standing with God that they were created with. Physical death happens to all men, even those who are righteous in God's eyes. Jesus died physically, not because He became a sinner in order to die physically, but because He was born into a world under the same conditions as man. Jesus lived a sinless life, while all other men choose to sin and become dead in their trespasses and sins and need to be born again. By reading through Ezekiel 18 with this understanding, one can then easily see how it is referring to spiritual life and spiritual death, not just physical life and physical death.