[Tomax]

What is meant by death? Physical or spiritual?

[Fruit of the Spirit]

"What is meant by death? Physical or spiritual?"

The spirit never dies but, in hell, it might as well be dead.

[rwfromkansas]

Both.

Although the only death that occurred immediately thte same day as God promised for Adam and Eve was spiritual.

However, until Adam, people did not physically die.

The sin of those who resulted in the corruption of the entire world and both physical and spiritual death.

I had never thought about it before, but it is a really excellent argument that since death did not occur until Adam and Eve, the current evolutionary view of species dying out and being replaced by evolved ones until gradually a human developed could not be the case. Because none of the species that preceded our branch of the evolutionary tree would have died out, which they did.

[jb6]

I would venture to say spiritual death, as in Hell. As an aside, the Orthodox Church, and thus Christianity as a whole before the Schism, did not accept Original Sin. We live in a fallen world because of the sin of Adam (aka man learned evil and still does it) but we are not bearer's of his sins. Each man answers for himself and his sins not for those of his father's.