An article about the rapture

Early in 2018, Don Preston and Ed Stevens agreed to a written debate on the topic of the Rapture. However, almost immediately the focus shifted to the Death of Adam when Ed realized that Preston’s whole CBV resurrection view, and all of his argumentation, is based on his belief that the only kind of death Adam died on the day he sinned was spiritual death. And if Adam only died spiritually on that day, then Christ’s substitutionary death to overcome the Death of Adam had to be “spiritual-only” also. That not only downplays the significance of the physical death of Jesus, but totally eliminates Christ’s physical death from His substitutionary atoning death.

That simply cannot be right, since Hebrews 9:22 unequivocally affirms that “without the shedding of Christ’s physical blood there is no forgiveness.” And all of the Old Testament physical animal sacrifices also pointed straight to the substitutionary physical death of Jesus.