What is natural death? Bible questions and answers

 

810. What is natural death? 

The separation of soul and body. 

811. What is spiritual death? 

The separation of soul and Spirit (Revelation 8:9).

812. What is the origin of death among men? 

Sin (Romans 5:12). 

813. How is natural death described in scripture? 

Return to dust (Genesis 3:19), sleep (Acts 7:60), dissolution of earthly tabernacle (2 Corinthians 5:1), to de-

part (Philippians 1:23). 

814. How is spiritual death described? 

Darkness (Matthew 4:16), carnally-minded (Romans 8:6), in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1), blindness 

(Ephesians 4:18, 19), living in pleasure (1 Timothy 5:6). 

815. Is it possible for any man to escape death? 

“There is no man that hath power over his spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of 

death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it” (Ec-

clesiastes 8:8). 

816. Has this any terrors for the righteous? 

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me” (Psalm 

23:4). 

817. What is said of the righteous dead? 

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord” (Revelation 14:13). 

818. Is it wrong to weep when righteous loved ones are removed by death? 

If so, it was wrong for Christ to weep at the grave of Lazarus. 

819. What is said of the grief of those who are bereft of righteous loved ones? 

“Ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13).820. What makes the departure of the unrighteous dead so painful? 

The knowledge that they will be forever tormented. 

821. What is the condition of those who are spiritually dead but physically alive? 

“Aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and 

without God in the world” (Ephesians 2:12). 

822. What is their opportunity? 

“Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light” (Ephesians 5:14). 

823. What if they put off the day of salvation until too late? 

They are forever shut off from the possibility of redemption. 

824. What is the second death? 

Banishment into the place of everlasting torment (Revelation 20:14, 15). 

825. Who are exempt from the power of the second death? 

They who have part in the first resurrection. (Revelation 20:6). 

826. How long will the power of the second death continue? 

Forever (Matthew 25:46; Jude 7). 

827. Who are the companions of those who suffer the second death? 

The devil and his angels (Matthew 25:41). 

828. What is one of the evidences of death within the soul? 

Hatred of brethren (1 John 3:14). 

829. Through whose death were the children of promise delivered from the power of death? 

Through the death of Jesus (Hebrews 2:9, 14). 

830. What should this sacrifice do for us? 

It should fill our hearts with gratitude forever. 

831. How does God look upon the lost world? 

“As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked” (Ezekiel 33:11). 

832. What is His invitation? 

“Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die” (Ezekiel 33:11). 

833. What is our duty toward the lost world? 

Tell them of the horrors of eternal death, and the blessedness of eternal life. 

834. What two sins are responsible for so many people walking in darkness? 

Ignorance and unbelief. 

835. How do they work against them? 

The first by teaching and the second by consistent living. 

838. What did God do to save the world from death? 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not 

perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).