What does Ephesians 2:1 say happened to believers who were dead in trespasses and sin?
Ephesians 2:1 says that believers once dead in trespasses and sin were made alive spiritually as a result of their salvation. That death came by birth: Adam, the federal head of the human race, plunged everyone into such a state, so people are born spiritually dead.
Les explains Ephesians 2:1 by quoting Paul's words to the Ephesian believers: “and you he hath made alive spiritually now as a result of their salvation, you who were dead in trespasses and sin.” Les then asks how we got there and answers that we were born in it. Adam, the federal head of the human race, plunged every one of us into that kind of state, so we are born spiritually dead. The verse therefore sets spiritual life received through salvation against the spiritual death inherited from Adam.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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What does Ephesians 2:1 say about our condition before salvation?
Ephesians 2:1 pictures the lost person as being dead in trespasses and sins, on the other side of the Red Sea, before God made them alive.