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While a person cannot be unborn, they can die. A dead son does partake in family meals, picnics, and or family reunions. So there is no relationship with a dead son. The dead son is in the grave. They are gone.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9). So we cannot go off our feelings or thoughts we want to be true. The Bible stands true regardless of our personal preferences.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32 proves that a saved believer can die spiritually, and then come back to God again to the saving of their soul. For when the prodigal son came back home and sought forgiveness with his father over squandering his inheritance on prostitutes, his father said that his son was “dead” and he is “alive AGAIN.” The father said this two times in the parable (Luke 15:24, and Luke 15:32). Seeing the prodigal son did not die physically, this means that the son died spiritually and he became alive again spiritually on the account of his actions. The father said he was lost and now he is found. Generally when we speak of the lost, we are talking about the unsaved. James 5:19-20 also teaches this same truth, as well.
There are many warnings to believers about how they will be cast out if they justify sin in this life. The Son of Man (JESUS) will send forth His angels and they will gather out of HIS KINGDOM all things which offend (i.e. anything that makes another to stumble into sin like false beliefs held by men), and whoever will do iniquity and they will be cast them into the furnace of fire (i.e. the Lake of Fire) (See: Matthew 13:41-42). We again see something similar happen in Matthew 7:23. Jesus tells certain believers who did wonderful works in His name to depart from Him because they also worked iniquity. Iniquity is sin. In Matthew 7:26-27, Jesus says that everyone who does not do what He says, they are like a fool who built His house upon the sand, and when a storm came, great was the fall of that house. This parable came right off of Matthew 7:23 about those believers who justified sin and were told to depart from Him by the Lord Himself. Acts of the Apostles 3:23 says that if every soul who does not hear that prophet (JESUS) they will be destroyed.
Jude mentions how there are those who are twice dead, plucked up by the roots. Meaning, they were dead spiritually before they came to Christ, and they died spiritually a second time when they later came to justify the idea that they can sin and still be saved. They started off good, but they were plucked up by the roots and later become unsaved.
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