The Bible illustrates spiritual deadness through metaphors like dry bones, signifying a lack of life and awareness apart from God's regenerative work.
The Scriptures portray spiritual deadness as a condition where individuals are unaware of their state and incapable of response to God. In Ezekiel 37:1-14, the valley of dry bones symbolizes people who are deeply dead in transgressions and sins. This passage emphasizes that, like the bones, those who are spiritually dead do not see, feel, or respond to God. It is only by the Holy Spirit, who breathes life into the spiritually dead, that one can awaken to life in Christ. Thus, spiritual deadness is underscored not merely as a state of existence but as an active separation from God, relying wholly on His sovereign grace for renewal.
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