Charles Perry Locke wrote:
Regarding the word "death", I think that it is used sometimes to meanDAVEH: Perry, I hope you and DavidM don't mind me contributing a bit to this thread. If you look at vs 18.....
physical death, and sometimes to mean spiritual death. I try to understand
it within the context in which I read it.>
> >From my perspective, physical death came because of sin, as did sickness
>and disease, which is basically incipient death. I believe that Adam
>and Eve freely ate of the tree of life before they sinned. Following is
>one passage which seems to connect death with sin entering the world.
>
>"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin;
>and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." (Romans
>5:12 KJV)I think that, except for speaking of the death of Christ in Romans 5, the
chapter refers to spiritual death.
"Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation {which I believe to be physical death}; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto the justification of life {this can only mean a physical resurrection, since it is to all men}.
.......It seems to me the free gift spoken about in this passage is the physical resurrection all men will receive due to Jesus' resurrection, which applies to all men as Paul described in 1Cor 15:22 below. One does not have to do anything to earn a physical resurrection.....it truly is a free gift to all mortals.
>The following passage indicates death to be an enemy, which would show
>it to be not part of God's plan, but something we were subjugated to
>because of sin.
>
>"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." (1 Corinthians 15:26
>KJV)1 Corinthians 15:21-23 says, "21 For since by man came death, by man came
also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But every man in his own order: Christ
the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. "I think 1 Corinthians 15 speaks of physical death, for it speaks of the
resurrection at Christ's return (when the corruptible shall put on the
incorruptible, and the mortal immotality).
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