The Bible indicates that Adam's death was corporeal and involved a separation from God, but not a spiritual death as commonly understood.
The scriptures clarify that Adam did not experience a spiritual death, but rather a corporeal death. In 1 Corinthians 15:22, it is asserted that 'in Adam all die,' referring to the physical mortality passed down to humanity from Adam's sin. Spiritual death, as conveyed in Christian theology, cannot occur without having had spiritual life, and Adam's life was natural. This corporeal death signifies the beginning of man's separation from God due to sin, which is described as non-spiritual death in the narrative of Genesis and later reinforced in Romans 5:12. Adam's sin brought about alienation from God but did not translate into a prior state of spiritual life being lost.
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