Ezekiel 18:4 - The Soul That Sinneth It Shall Die: Is This Referring to Physical or Spiritual Death?

Some people believe that Ezekiel 18 is referring to physical death with regards to what happens to the soul that sinneth. This is mistakenly assumed as true only when someone overlooks the entire context of that chapter and doesn't fully understand what happened to Adam and Eve the day they ate the forbidden fruit. Adam did not force us all to be born dead in trespasses and sins, as if all men are born totally depraved or spiritually dead at birth. This false understanding of mankind having a sinful nature at birth has led to wrong interpretations of what types of death are being referred to in other Scriptures. Adam forced physical death upon all of mankind because his sin banished him and all of his posterity from having access to the tree of life which would have provided mankind with eternal physical life. Adam and Eve were created with a right spiritual standing with God and they were told that the day they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil they would surely die. They didn't die physically that day, but they did die spiritually that very day when they became dead in their trespasses and sins and recognized that they were naked. They had lost their right spiritual standing with God. God never wanted them to eat from the tree of life because He didn't want them to live forever in their sins. This helps us to see that the tree of life was only meant to offer them eternal physical life in the spiritually alive state they were created with. The tree of life couldn't offer them spiritual life or else God would have wanted them to eat from it. Their sin needed to be dealt with another way! Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. Once we understand that we are born good and upright and innocent in God's eyes, we can then understand how Ezekiel 18 is referring to spiritual death that happens to the soul who sins and they become dead in trespasses and sins and lose that right spiritual standing with God that they were created with. Physical death happens to all men, even those who are righteous in God's eyes. Jesus died physically, not because He became a sinner in order to die physically, but because He was born into a world under the same conditions as man. Jesus lived a sinless life, while all other men choose to sin and become dead in their trespasses and sins and need to be born again. By reading through Ezekiel 18 with this understanding, one can then easily see how it is referring to spiritual life and spiritual death, not just physical life and physical death.

[@joanray1552]

just read this scripture the other day and asked the Lord what it's meaning is......and then you showed up today....The Lord is good. Thankyou dear.

[@ShatteringFalseFoundations]

@@joanray1552 That’s awesome! Praise the Lord!

[@tashatash3626]

So thankful for this video, im currently reading Ezekiel and really could not look at it without referring back to garden. Each one die for there own sins prompted me to look deeper.

[@ShatteringFalseFoundations]

I’m glad this video was a blessing to you. God bless you in your continued studies!

[@tyn593]

We are born sinners. 'For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of Yehova'

[@ShatteringFalseFoundations]

I agree that all have sinned and come short (fall short) of the glory of God, but we aren't born that way according to the Word of God. Someone can't fall short if they are born short of the glory of God. The apostle Paul in Romans 3:23 is referring to someone who is of the age of accountability and in that context, all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. The Word of God reveals that children are innocent in God's eyes. Jesus tells us that we need to be converted and become as little children in order to enter the kingdom of God (Matthew 18:3-5). God wouldn't be telling us to become as totally depraved heathen sinners in order to enter the kingdom of God. God doesn't form sinners in the womb, rather He forms us all good and upright in the womb. We all sin from our youth, but aren't born sinners at birth. We are all born into a sinful world, but we are not born sinners. If you took the time to hear the entire matter that I present in this series refuting the Catholic doctrine of original sin, you would understand more about what the Word of God reveals on these things in context. kzbin.info/aero/PLo_7oh9llbNY2SELR4LYYYm3q0zYiXly-

[@tyn593]

We are born with propensity to sin , in sinful flesh. We are sinners by birth . No one is taught to sin but we find ourselves sinning hence our need of a saviour fashioned in our sinful likeness .To be a sinner you only need to be born not grow. For that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit

[@ShatteringFalseFoundations]

@@tyn593 One can choose whether to give into the lusts of the flesh or not. Temptation is not a sin, but can lead to sin if one chooses to fall into temptation. Sin is a choice to transgress God's law (1 John 3:4). It's not forced upon us nor is it a "natural" thing to do. If it was natural and we were born with the force to sin, then we would all have the greatest excuse for sinning. Yet the Bible says we are without excuse. James 1:13-14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. We are not sinners by birth because a baby has not done any good or evil according to the Word of God. The fact that we are born innocent with an upright nature and all choose to sin from our youth means we are all without excuse before God. Romans 9:11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) According to what you are saying, how would babies be saved? If they are born with a sinful nature, then where do babies go when they die? A Catholic would say that the baby would go to hell if they weren't baptized. But infant baptism according to the Word of God is unbiblical. Why? Because they have no sin to repent of and they have not yet separated themselves from the God who created them. One needs to first believe and repent in order to be baptized. Jesus was born of the flesh as well. He was just as human as we are even though He was God's very person manifest in the flesh. To say that Jesus had a different "flesh" than everyone else is to contradict the Word of God that says he took on Him the seed of Abraham (Hebrews 2:16). Jesus was born with the same nature or flesh we are all born with. He, however, lived a sinless life unlike everyone else who lived past the age of accountability who chose to sin and come short of the glory of God. My entire series covers all of these points in detail. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKfYe6ejidaintk

[@jewishbride5010]

Abba Father, in agreement with this whole message and word of ezekiel 18:4, 2 corinthians 6:14-18, matthew 6:24 I bind the soul that sins to die in my life, the lives of my family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquitances, opponents and the body of Christ while binding myself not being unequally yoked with an unbeliever serving satan who has no life of Christ in oneself, in the name and blood of Jesus Christ, amen and hallelujah!