💀 DEATH💀 (Wekipedia) is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include
biological aging ( senescence ), predation,
malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide,
starvation, dehydration , and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury . [1] Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death.
💀 THE THREEFOLD DEATH (Pardington)
In connection with the prohibition to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil the LORD God said, “In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (lit. dying thou shalt die): Gen 2:17.
This death, which was the result of sin, was threefold, viz: physical, spiritual, and eternal.
💀 1. Physical death.
Physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. It includes, according to Dr. Strong, “all those temporal evils and sufferings which result from disturbance of the original harmony between soul and body, and which are the working of death in us”: Num 16:29; ...; Psa 90:7-9; Psa 90:11; Isa 38:17-18; Rom 4:24-25; Rom 6:9-10; Rom 8:3; Rom 8:10-11; 1Co 15:21-22; Gal 3:13; 1Pe 4:6 (refs10).
NOTE: Some regard physical death as a part of the penalty of sin while others regard it as rather the natural consequence of sin. In either view, it seems to be clear that weakness and disease followed by death resulted primarily from the exclusion of Adam and Eve from the tree of life.
💀2. Spiritual death.
Spiritual death is the separation of the spirit from God. It includes, according to Dr. Strong, “all that pain of conscience, loss of peace, and sorrow of spirit, which result from the disturbance of the normal relation between the soul and God”: Mat 8:22; Luk 15:32; Joh 5:24; Joh 8:51; Rom 8:13; Eph 2:1; Eph 5:14; 1Ti 5:6; Jam 5:20; 1Jn 3:14 (refs10).
NOTE: Dr. Strong says: “It cannot be doubted that the penalty pronounced in the Garden and fallen upon the race is primarily and mainly that death of the soul which consists in its separation from God. In this sense only, death was fully visited upon Adam in the day on which he ate the forbidden fruit: Gen 2:17. In this sense only, death is escaped by the Christian: Joh 11:26. For this reason, in the parallel between Adam and Christ, Rom 5:12-21, the apostle passes from the thought of mere physical death in the early part of the passage to that of both physical and spiritual death at its close, Rom 5:21: ‘as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord’-where ‘eternal life’ is more than endless physical existence, and ‘death’ is more than death of the body.”
💀3. Eternal death.
Eternal death is the result of spiritual death. It is, according to Strong, “the culmination and completion of spiritual death, and essentially consists of the correspondence of the outward with the inward state of the evil soul: Act 1:25. It would seem to be inaugurated by some peculiar repellent energy of the divine holiness, Mat 25:41; 2Th 1:9 (refs2), and to involve positive retribution visited by a personal God upon both body and soul of the evildoer: Mat 10:28; Heb 10:31; Rev 14:11 (refs3).” Eternal death is the same as hell, or gehenna, or the second death: Mat 10:28; see 2Ki 23:10; Rev 20:14 (refs2).
NOTE: Both spiritual and eternal death were arrested by grace through the institution of sacrifice: Gen 3:21; Gen 3:24; Heb 9:22 (refs3). Thus, the Coming One who was to “taste death for every man” saved those in the Old Testament age who through obedience and sacrifice believed in Him: Rom 3:25; Heb 2:9 (refs2).
