I agree. Paul isn't talking about physical death. He is talking about being condemned to eternal death. That is, never to live in the age of ages. There is no such thing as spiritually dead.
I agree! That's why I said we must understand what it means to be dead in trespasses and sins. Paul was not speaking to corpses, but to the living. Yet he says were dead in trespasses and sins. That doesn't mean the physical life-giving spirit within every man is not alive. It simply means that in this dead condition the Spirit from Christ cannot be known or heard through our spirit that is our mind & hearts, some would say our "living soul". We use the phrase "spiritually dead" that we might show death is not literal but is most certainly being spiritually dead or unable to physically hearing the Gospel for eternal life.
Without being made spiritually alive through the Spirit of Christ in us, death of our body truly would mean separation from God forever.
Eternal life is a type of life where sin does not exist; it is a life where everything that is broken, bent, and twisted now will be made straight. It is a life where love, which may be lost or lacking now, will increase in quality. Relationships, which may break down now, will grow stronger and more meaningful. Anger and sadness, which exist now, will be replaced by reconciliation, amity, and happiness.
I call this "aionic" life, after the Greek word for "age," because it will last forever and become more profound and significant each day.
When Paul said that we were "dead" in our sins, he meant that we were cut off from the final, glorious, and wonderful age to come. But now, in Christ, we are "alive" and destined for an eternal life.
Eternal life is not something we shall have or destined to have! Christ says we now have eternal life through Him when we believe. We are not given eternal physical life, but eternal life of our spirit, that is our mind & heart, the essence of who we are even while trapped in these bodies of flesh destined to die. Our spirit through Christ's Spirit shall NEVER die! Call it the age or to the end of days, or until Christ comes again, our spirit is alive forevermore. When this aionic age/time/life/days that are now since Christ has come are finished our spirit returning with Christ when He comes again from heaven will once again give our resurrected physical body immortal & incorruptible life fit for everlasting life with Christ on the new earth. That is where our hope lies, not for eternal life that we already have through His Spirit in us, our hope is for when Christ shall come again and physically resurrect our body of flesh that we shall once again be whole and "very good" as we were in the beginning created to be.