4.3 THE SPIRIT OF MAN
There is an unfortunate confusion in the minds of many people between the soul and spirit. This is compounded by the fact that in some languages \u200b\u200band translations of the Bible, the words 'soul' and 'spirit' are only equivalent. The 'soul', which basically means all the components of a person, sometimes can also refer to the spirit. However, there is usually a difference in meaning between 'soul' and 'spirit' as used in the Bible, the soul and spirit have "borders" (Acts 4:12 - KJV).
Hebrew and Greek words for 'spirit' ('Ruach' and 'Pneuma' respectively) are also translated in the following ways:
life, spirit, mind, wind, breath
In Study 2.1 Analyze the idea of \u200b\u200b'spirit'. God uses his mind to preserve the natural creation, including man. Therefore, the spirit of God is within man is the life force that is inside. "The body without the spirit is dead" (James 2:26). "Lord God ... breathed into his nostrils [Adam] breath [spirit] of life, and man became a living being" (Genesis 2:7). Job says that the "breath of God" is "in my face" (cf. Job 27:3 Isa 2:22). Therefore, the spirit of life that is within us is given at birth and remains with us as our body is alive. When you remove the spirit of God of something, it dies immediately, the spirit is the life force. If God "reflects his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together and man would return to dust. If, then, hast understanding, hear this" (Job 34:14-16). This last phrase suggests again that man is very difficult to accept this statement of his true nature.
When, at the time of our death, God withdraws from us his spirit, not only killed our body but our consciousness ceases completely. This knowledge led David to trust in God rather than as weak creatures such as humans. Psalm 146:3-5 is a stark rejection of the claims of humanism: "Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, because there is no salvation in it. His breath goeth [spirit], and returns to earth [ the dust from which we are made] on that very day his thoughts perish. Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob. "
When he died, "the dust returns to earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it" (Ec 12:7). We have previously shown that God is present everywhere through his spirit. In this sense, "God is Spirit" (John 4:24). When we die, "we take the last breath" in the sense that the spirit of God that is within us, let us. That spirit is absorbed by the spirit of God is around us, in this way to die, "the spirit returns to God."
Because the spirit of God sustains all creation, this same process happens to the animals. Men and animals have the same spirit or life force within. "For that which befalls the sons of men, and what happens to the beasts, one event is: as one dies, so dies the other, one breath [spirit] are all, no man hath the beast "(Ec 3:19). The writer goes on to say that there is no visible difference between the spirit of men and animals on the place where they go (Eq 3:21). This description of men and animals have the same spirit and die the same death, seems to refer to the description of how men and animals having the spirit of life from God (Gen. 2:7, 7:15), were destroyed by the same death in the flood: "And all flesh died that moved upon the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on earth, and every man. All I had the breath of life into his nostrils ... died .... He destroyed all living "(Genesis 7:21-23). \u200b\u200bBy the way, notice how Psalm 90:5 compares death to the flood. The Genesis 7 clearly shows that in fundamental terms the man belongs to the same category of "all flesh ... every living thing. "This is because inside the man has the same spirit with the animals.
Some have argued that the fact that God breathed his spirit in man by nature implies that we have immortality within us. This is not true. The fact that God breathed into Adam the spirit / power of life means that he became a living creature, but this fact is cited in 1 Cor 15:45 as evidence that Adam was mortal, he was just a living soul, a living creature, but he was mortal with immortality compared the Lord Jesus.
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