Types of Death in the Bible
When you read verses like the following, what does Paul mean when he says we must be dead to sin, or we have become dead to the law, or when sin revived, he died? This is obviously not physical death, otherwise Paul could not write the epistles in which we read these things. What death is he talking about, and what other types of death do we learn about in the Bible?
Rom 6:11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Rom 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
There are many types of death depicted in the Bible, not just physical death.
- there's physical death (we all know what this is!!)
- there is the eternal (the second) death which an unsaved man dies and go to the hell
- there is spiritual death in which an unsaved man (while he lives) is alienated from the life of God
- there is positional death: a saved man’s union to the death of Christ; the moment you believe the gospel (ie: baptized into his death)
- there is functional death: concerning something that doesn't operate or function the way it's supposed to:
