Romans 5:12 - Death Came to All Men

• It should be noted that the death spoken of in this passage involves more than just the separation of the soul from the body (physical death).

• It also refers to spiritual death (alienation from God) which eventually results in physical death.

• God told Adam in Genesis 2:17 “in the day that you eat from [the tree of the knowledge of good and evil] you shall surely die. ” (NASB)

• On the day that Adam ate the fruit he died spiritually (i.e., he experienced a separation from God and all that goes with that).

• As a result of spiritual death, Adam eventually died physically as well.

– Genesis 5:5 - Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.

• We on the other hand are born, in fact conceived, spiritually dead (i.e., from the moment of conception we are alienated from God)

– Psalm 58:3 - Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.

– Psalm 51:5 - Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

• As a result, we eventually die physically as well.

– Hebrews 9:27 - It is appointed for men to die once [physically]