Where's the fun in that?
I do teach the first...we are spiritually dead. Having a spirit is not the same as being alive spiritually. Animals have spirits, but they are not "spiritual" nor can be.
The second I do not teach, that Adam was spiritually alive then dead.
I think I have mentioned before that being immersed into eternal union with God never took place prior to Pentecost. That is how we have "life," as contrasted with the "fathers" in John 6, which would have included Moses, who received manna but were...dead. We know Christ is not teaching that men will never perish physically, hence the life in view is distinct from the life men do have, which is physical.
I do believe Adam was in communion with God, hence we would assume that the Old Testament ministry of God in filling men was likely, so we would not see Adam as bereft of a spiritual relationship with God in that sense. He also had access to the Tree of Life, so he had advantages his offspring did not.
So when we are immersed into God, baptized with the Holy Ghost, we receive life based on the fact that He Who is Eternal Life now indwells us. Prior to our conversion...we were spiritually dead. Dead to God, dead to righteousness, and dead to the spiritual things of God.
Nor do I.
I don't see "representative" as representative of His vicarious death in our stead. Moses was a representative, Christ was God dying in the stead of the sinner.
Genesis 22:8
King James Version (KJV)
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
This is true, so we must view the death sinners are faced with as something other than physical death. That does not change the fact that animals died vicariously, and neither did they go to Hell.
Agreed, the Second Death is the spiritual death the lost are headed for.
Technically that judgment was created for Satan and his demons. It is suitable that those among men who reject the will of God go there too.
God bless.
