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Job 31:28
28 This also were an iniquity [`avon] to be punished by the judge [paliyliy]: for I should have denied [kachash] the God ['el] that is above [ma`al]. KJV-Interlinear
28 That too would have been an iniquity calling for judgment, For I would have denied God above. NASB
To place your trust in possessions, to boast of your position or status in this world as though you were the one who caused all that you have attained, to give recognition to inanimate objects or invented beliefs, all of these things, and in fact any sin or instance of human good, are founded in arrogance and portray an attitude of disregard of God, or that God simply does not exist.
To deny God through apathy, indifference, or denial is the philosophy of fools.
Everything in this world, everything of this world, is temporary at best. To pursue anything that is temporary at the expense of anything that is permanent, is the priority of fools.
God is truth. Everything not of God is a lie. To embrace lies with disregard of truth, is the pursuit of wickedness. And the objective of wickedness is the total discrediting of God. Anything that rejects truth is criminal since its objective is to destroy or replace truth.
Anything criminal is punishable by death. Death is a separation from something.
In the case of a relationship with God, death comes with the separation of ones spiritual life with God. And since people do not live in this world forever, then when they die, then being separated from God means eternal condemnation.
As for believers who started their spiritual life through faith in Christ, and then for whatever reason became disinterested in their spiritual life, then they still possess a relationship with God for purposes of living in heaven forever, but while in this world, they lose all of the benefits of a spiritual relationship because of their negative attitude. And, their loss continues into eternity, unless they change their attitude.
Death comes in many forms. Spiritual death exists while Christ is rejected. This applies to all unbelievers.
For believers, fellowship death exists when a person commits a sin or transgression, and that death or separation, continues until fellowship is restored through confession to God the Father.
Of course, we are familiar with physical death, which is a separation of the soul (and spirit) from the physical body in this life. Or of sexual death, which is a separation from ones vigor of youth.
However, the most important life that anyone can possibly have is that which enjoys a relationship with God, with all of the rights and privileges that go along with it. And loss of that life, death, means the forfeiture of all living benefits. Death, in whatever category, has no benefits. It has nothing.
