'And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.'
(Gen 2:7)
Hello
@jeremiah1five,
A person is a living soul, For the soul is the body in which '
the breath of life' or '
spirit' is present. At death when the spirit or breath of life goes back to God Who gave it, the person is dead, and a dead soul. Only the resurrection power of God can quicken that dead soul into life again, and raise him from the dead.
In Christ Jesus
Chris
Anything or anyone 'living' comes from God. So, if man became a 'living' soul when before he was only dust of the ground, then the soul comes from God. So, how does something from God - in this case a soul - become eternally separated from Him?
Well, first we must define what the soul is and according to Scripture in many places that one can discern it from a lifeless body - it is mind, intellect, senses, emotions, conscience, and will. And being animated by God because it comes from Him and is added to the body, we can now determine how a soul can be [eternally] separated from God.
Right now, the soul IS separated from God. Let's just say that the Heavenly Tabernacle of which the earthly Tabernacle was fashioned from was buzzing with activity just as the earthly Tabernacle was with a high priest, blood and flesh and incense offering, etc. There are not many references but there is enough to draw out the activity taken place in the Heavenly Tabernacle before God created (first and second) heaven, earth, and man and the bible says so.
The first thing to understand and accept is that God shows Himself saving through covenant. All three salvation covenants in the Hebrew Scripture does show these covenants were made by God and included a Hebrew man and extended in time to his biological seed.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make
nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And
I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Gen. 17:6–7.
Now, before I go on, I want to first make sure you understand and accept that this is a covenant between God, Abram the Hebrew, and his Hebrew seed (Sarah was Abraham's niece and wife meaning she was Hebrew also and both from the family of Eber. Abraham's father and Sarai's father were brothers) and accept that there are no non-Hebrews or later, a people identified as non-Hebrew Gentiles in this covenant. Do you see any non-Hebrews or non-Hebrew Gentiles in this covenant?
Yes or No?