> > Yet there was still a moment of "death," whether
> > they're dead now or not. They died spiritually,
> > and THEN God gave them life again.
>
> I guess, then, we're working from different definitions of death. To me, death is final - you don't die "for a while" and then come back - once you're dead, you're dead. So if there was redemption, then they were spiritually ill, but not quite dead.

Without the concordance, the first verses I thought of are Hebrews 9:27-28, which reads in part, "...man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgement..."

You've hit the nail mentioning different definitions of death. The Bible's uses it as a spiritual state or the physical transition from this world to the next, rather than our cultural take of it as permanent non-being.

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