What you’ve done, brother, is either take my words out of its context (ignored the “spirit” of was said, to use an illustration of this topic) or demonstrated a severe lack of understanding when it comes to interpreting Scripture. I lean towards the former with the explanation that my explanation was incomplete and therefore I bear the fault for your conclusions.
In Ephesians 2 Paul is not talking of a “spiritual corpse” - EXCEPT as it defines the idea of spiritual death - but of living in our own lusts by the way of the world, in a state absent of the Life, not lacking animation or innate ability of its own. Spiritual death is a state of being objects of God’s wrath. No man is able to act towards salvation apart from God. This is a given. But when we apply “death” to a man spiritually, saying he is a “spiritual corpse” unable to do anything then we have severely misinterpreted God’s Word. The point is not the man’s spiritual ability (or lack thereof), it is not if the spirit itself is a corpse, but that it lacks the Life.
So where we seem to differ is that I believe Jesus is the Life, and spiritual death is an absence of this Life (not the absence of some quality in and of the spirit itself). We probably differ on other terms as well. Jesus is the Light. I do not believe this means our spirits are in need of lanterns to see physical things around them. Jesus is the Vine. I do not believe this means Jesus is a literal vine. I believe proper hermeneutics necessitates the ability to understand these things, that one meaning does not dictate or cross over to the other.
