What is spiritual death?

u/Dekard641

The human spirit is not connected to the Creator's Spirit. This is not a physical connection; nevertheless, it is a literal connection in the spiritual realm. The human spirit, without connection to God, is spiritually dead, even while he is physically alive. His human spirit is a detached breath from God. It is still animating him as a living being.

The term *spiritual death" is not written in the Bible. 1 Corinthians 2 comes pretty close to it:

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

The natural person's spirit is not connected to the Holy Spirit. He is spiritually dead in the sense that there is a disconnect.

Also in Ephesians 2:

1 you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience

The evil spirit works in people who are dead in sins and disconnected from the Holy Spirit.

3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

We were like that before we were born of the Spirit, i.e., when we were connected to the Paraclete.

Still, because the term is not explicitly mentioned in the Bible, I wouldn't use it so freely. I strive to adhere to the wording of the Bible as closely as possible. Perhaps a better term is spiritual separation or spiritual disconnect.