SEVEN CATEGORIES OF DEATH

There are seven categories of death found in the Word of God.

1.   Spiritual Death:  no relationship with God in time.

Genesis 2:17; Proverbs 14:12; Ezekiel 18:20; Romans 5:12; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Ephesians 2:1,5

2.   Physical Death:  separation of the human soul or human soul and spirit from the body.

Romans 8:38-39, 2 Corinthians 5:1-8; Philippians 1:20-21

3.   The Second Death:  perpetuation of spiritual death into eternity or eternal separation from God.

Matthew 25:41; Hebrews 9:27; Revelation 20:11-15

4.   Positional death:  identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.

Romans 6:3-4; Colossians 2:12; 3:3

5.   Operational death:  failure to produce divine good on the part of the reversionistic believer under the influence of evil.

James 2:26; 1 Timothy 5:6; Ephesians 5:14, Revelation 3:1

6.   Temporal death:  the status of carnality or the believer out of fellowship with God through personal sin.

Romans 8:6, 13; Ephesians 5:14; 1 Timothy 5:6; James 1:15; Luke 15:24

7.   Sexual death:  the inability to copulate.

Romans 4:17-21; Hebrews 11:11, 12