[hosepipe]

[.. These people are referred to as dead before they go through the second death. ..]

O.K.. I'll ask you again what is LIFE?..
A living human is alive.. What is LIFE..
A dead human is dead..... What is death?..

But What is life is what I asked you?..
Dead is merely not being alive.. I know that already..

[Seven_0]

What is death?..

Good question. You will note that in all the resurrections in scripture, no one gave testimony of what it was like to die or be dead. I believe that it is purposely shrouded in mystery to illustrate what Christ would go through at the cross. It was outside of his experience both as man and as God. As for what is life? You and I can both draw from the same pool of knowledge for a definition

Dead is merely not being alive.. I know that already..

Dead implies that something was alive first. You cannot have a dead rock. This is why birth must come before death and death must come before resurrection. This does not bode well for those who say that we are spiritually dead before we are born again.