Spiritual Death

Inherited condition of sin, in which we are condemned and lack a personal relationship with God.


One who is spiritually dead lives according to the lusts of the flesh and mind, is disobedient to God and worthy of His wrath.  Humanity's condition before salvation is most vividly seen in Ephesians 2:1-3:

"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest."