Death?

What is death?

I wonder if we superimpose our ideas of death: back onto the Bible. So we think physical death, or perhaps the second death, burning in the fires of hell.

But ultimately, Death is: separation from God.

Hence physical death and spiritual death are ways of being separated from God. Jesus' death, whether or not he actually "descended into hell", was hell for him because he was separated from God's presence.

So the day that Adam and Eve were excluded from God’s presence, they, in some sense, have died.