What Is the Biblical Definition of Death? In our time most of the human race, including many Christians, substitute a naturalistic definition of death for the Bible's definition. This kind of thinking can be increasingly found even among Evangelical pastors and in reputedly conservative seminaries. Building Our Case on Solid Ground Many Darwinian evolutionists, and virtually all atheists, believe that man, being a creature purely of time and chance, merely ceases to exist when physical life ends. Increasing numbers of professing Christians, though they believe the soul continues to exist for a time after death, teach the future complete annihilation of unbelievers. But as Christians we must be careful to build our thinking about death upon solid Biblical ground. We who are subject to death cannot define death. Only Someone who exists outside of the sphere of death can objectively define death for us. God has done that in His Word. So the critical question is