Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
The Lord asks us to reason with him and we should do that on the subject of death, a subject that Calvinists do not understand, whether on purpose or not , I cannot say. So let's take things we know and apply some logic and reason to them.
First, we know that God created Adam in his own image and after his likeness and somehow that included what the scriptures define as life. Then we are told Adam sinned, which is defined as an act of disobedience to God. We are told sin is the transgression of the law. The disobedience of Adam certainly transgressed the one law he was given to obey. This caused death because the Lord had said "in the day you eat thereof ye shall surely die. This begs the question of what happened in that day when Adam died and was cast out of the garden of God?
To begin to understand that let us fast forward to the time after the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Here is a man who is God in human form with all the physical weaknesses of any of us. The difference in this man than the rest of us is that he was begotten of God and not Adam, though he had a human mother. The gospel of John, in chapter 1 says about him when he became flesh, that "in him was life and the life was the light of men." He is not speaking here of life that is in all men because the life that is in other men is not light to anyone else. In Hebrews 1:2 we are told he is the express image of God while he was here on the earth. So, here is Jesus Christ, the God man, or the man who is God and he has life in him. He also has fellowship with God continually because this life that is in him is the Spirit of God. God is in him. This is the light of the world, the light of men. In John 8:32 he says "I am the light of the world. he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life."
Time out, for just a minute. Light is a metaphor for understanding. Proof: "The entrance of thy word giveth life, it giveth understanding to the simple. Darkness is a metaphor for ignorance and blindness. Psa 119:130.
17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Eph 418 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
What is this light and life that was in Jesus Christ? Well, if you have read the verses I have quoted already you know it is the Spirit of God, the third member of the Godhead. He is life and he is the Spirit of Christ and of God. Here is proof.
Rom 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life ..........
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
You see the Spirit is both the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ because both are God. So, if a man has God indwelling his mortal body he has eternal life and is constantly in the presence of God because of his presence. It is not possible for anything to break that fellowship, even acts of sin, because of three things. The blood of Christ which washed our sins away, and the advocacy of Jesus Christ, and our position in the body of Christ as one unified member among many.
Jesus Christ is the "last Adam," the second man, we are told by the scriptures. Paul says in Titus 3 these wonderful words;
Ti 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Now, after these words, let us reason together. If Jesus Christ, a man, and the son of God was alive because he had the Spirit of God indwelling him, who he says is life and he is God and he indwells the believer in Jesus forever, would it not be logical to reason that what happened to Adam in the garden of God is that he sinned and the death that he experienced that day was the indwelling Spirit, who is a person, departed from him because of his sin?
Now there is a lot to say and much more to this than I have room to say here but maybe in the coming days I can add to this great truth that by it's very nature of being the truth,will refute many doctrines of the Calvinists.
Maybe next I will show how Adam died 930 years later, a physical death, which is defined by his spirit (of man) his soul, departing from his body. So, Adam died spiritually and then he died physically, and so did Jesus Christ die in like manner on that cross.
Therefore, it will be proven from the scriptures that death is defined by the scriptures as separation and that is all it means. A man who is dead in his trespasses and sins simply means that he still has sin accounted to him because it has not been washed away in the blood of the Lamb and he does not have the presence of the Spirit of God dwelling in his mortal body. Death not mean that a man is unable to reason and think and believe as Calvinists teach.
