We were all dead spiritually while our sins separated us from God, the source of spiritual and eternal life.
Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Genesis 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Adam died spiritually when he sinned and ate the forbidden fruit and then died physically 930 years later. He died twice. We don’t know how long Eve lived physically but it was long enough to get a good start populating the world. We inherit our spiritual deadness from our first ancestor, Adam. While we were dead spiritually we were the children of the Devil.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
When we receive Jesus into our hearts, we become children of God and are given eternal life by our eternal Father. Receiving Jesus is what saving faith does.
Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
1 John 5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
To be continued.
